Biörn Ivemark


Biörn Ivemark was a Swedish pediatrician and pathologist. He is credited with characterizing asplenia with cardiovascular anomalies, also sometimes known as "Ivemark syndrome".
Born in Karlstad, Ivemark graduated from Karolinska Institutet in 1951 and received his research doctorate in 1955.
He died at Carcassonne, in southern France, in 2005.