Pentti Ilmari SIPPONEN

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M.D.
Professor, Head, Dept of Pathology, Jorvi Hospital
02740 Espoo, Finland

phone -358-9-8611

fax -358-9-861 5912

E-mail penti.sipponen@jorvi.ushp.fi

  

• born 08.10.1943, Jyväskylä, Finland.

• wife (Kirsti), two sons: Lauri (born 1969) and Arno (born 1972)

• graduation in medicine 1969, University of Helsinki

• graduation in pathology 1976, University of Helsinki

• Doctor of Medical Sciences 1977; University of Helsinki, (thesis on liver pathology: Copper Binding Protein in Primary Biliary Cirrhosis)

• consultant pathologist 1969-1976, Dept of Pathology, University of Helsinki

• consultant pathologist 1976-1980, and department head 1980

• Dept of Pathology, Jorvi Hospital, Espoo, Finland

• professor, 31.5.1996

• Insurance court: vice member (pathology) 1991

• Finnish Army - medical lieutenant 1971-; officer 1969-1970

• consultant cytologists of the Foundation for Health Care of University Students (YTHS): 1979

•  Honourary memberships and prizes

• Honourary membership in the Polish Society of Gastroenterology,1991

• Gastro Prize of Astra Finland, Helsinki,1993

• Honourary membership and award of the "Hetényi Géza" Memorial Medallion of the Hungarian Society of Gastroenterology, Balatonaliga 1995

• Gastro Price ("Gastropriset") of Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology, Uppsala 1995

• Honourary membership of the Japanese Society of Gastroenterology, Tokyo 1996

 

Memberships in societies and international or domestic working parties:

• International Academy of Pathology: -secretary and board member of the Finnish Division 1976-1981

• International Academy of Cytology

• Finnish Society of Gastroenterology; -treasurer and board member 1975-1977 and board member 1991-1993

• European Gastro Club

• European Society of Gastroenterology

• European Society of Pathology

• Board for classification of GI tumours(WHO)

• Working Party for New Classification of gastritis (The Sydney System) 1988-1990

• European Study Group on Helicobacter pylori

• Consensus meeting of NIH on "Helicobacter pylori and peptic ulcer disease". Lecturer. Washington, February 1994

• Consensus meeting of IARC (WHO) on "Scistosomes, liver flukes and Helicobacter pylori" in Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans. Lyon, June 1994. member of the panel

 

Editorial Boards:

• Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology;

• Histopathology

• Digestion

• Helicobacter

• Gastric Cancer

 

Publications:

• Approximately 250 publications (papers and reviews) and approximately 120 abstracts or short reports in gastroenterology and in pathology of the GI-tract; mainly in liver pathology, and in the pathology, epidemiology and clinics of gastritis, Helicobacter pylori, peptic ulcer diseases, and gastric cancer.