42nd IUPAC Council Meeting
Nominee for Bureau
Anders
Kallner (Sweden)
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| Anders Kallner
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Kallner’s main research areas have been lipid and vitamin metabolism,
nutrition, clinical conditions related to various markers, statistics
and modelling, and the chemistry of natural products, particularly innate
antibiotics. He has been active in various aspects of quality improvement
in the laboratory and promoted accreditation of medical laboratories.
He has contributed to several Standards from ISO (TC 212, and CASCO
10) and CEN (TC140) and been a consultant to the World Health Organization
in Alexandria and Geneva. In addition, he has been project leader for
several projects on quality management in hospital laboratories in the
Baltic countries and Russia and is presently project leader for a major
project in N.W. Russia (Murmansk and St. Petersburg).
Education and Career
Anders Kallner studied general chemistry at the University
of Stockholm and organic chemistry at the IUPAC Elections Royal Institute
of Technology in Stockholm before graduating in biochemistry (Ph.D.)
from the Karolinska Institute in 1967. He later earned his M.D. at the
same university and later became associate professor of Clinical Chemistry
at the Karolinska Institute. He has held positions in county, regional,
and university hospitals and is presently senior consultant at the Department
of Clinical Chemistry at Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm,
Sweden.
IUPAC Involvement
Kallner is presently president of the Chemistry and Human Health
Division. He has been involved since 1991 when he became a member of
the Clinical Chemistry Section of the Division. In 1999, he coordinated
a project to establish strategies to set global quality specifications
in laboratory medicine, and he is now a member on a task group whose
goal is to compile a compendium for chemists of terms applied to drug
development.
Related Professional Activities
Kallner has been active in the Executive Board of the International
Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine as secretary,
treasurer, and vice president. He is currently chairman of the Swedish
Committee for Standardisation in Laboratory Medicine. He is also a member
of the Swedish Society for Clinical Chemistry and the American Association
of Clinical Chemistry. Kallner has published more than 150 scientific
papers in international journals, authored educational material for
medical students, and made over 200 oral presentations and posters at
national and international congresses and conferences.
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