The
Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM) is the
United Kingdom's
professional body and
learned society for
physicists and
engineers within the field of
medicine, founded in 1995, changing its name from the
Institution of Physics and Engineering in Medicine and Biology (IPEMB) in 1997. The Institute is governed by an elected Board of Trustees reporting to which are the Science, Research and Innovation Council and the Professional and Standards Council. The councils have operational responsibility for scientific and professional aspects of the Institute's work, respectively. Beneath the councils is a substructure of committees, groups and panels of members, which undertake the work of the Institute.