Flemming Forsberg MSc, PhD

Flemming Forsberg was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1961. He received the M.Sc. degree in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in biomedical engineering from the Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark, in 1987 and 1990, respectively. From 1987 to 1990, he was with the Electronics Institute, Technical University of Denmark, where he was involved in Doppler ultrasound signal processing. From 1990 to 1991, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with King’s College, London, U.K. After a year in private industry, developing an intravascular imaging system, he joined the Department of Radiology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA, as an Ultrasound Physicist, in 1992.

He is currently a Professor of radiology and his research focuses on ultrasound contrast agents, subharmonic imaging, quantitative contrast measurements, and novel clinical imaging modes. Dr. Forsberg is a fellow of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) as well as the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). He is an Editorial Board Member of the “Ultrasonic Imaging” as well as a Deputy Editor for the basic science of the “Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine.” He received the Joseph H. Holmes Pioneer Award in basic science from the AIUM in 2015 and he presented the New Horizons Lecture at the Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America in 2018. (Based on a document published on 12 August 2020).