Faculty meetings
Vice-Rector Mats Larhed invites you to the faculty meetings of the Disciplinary Domain of Medicine and Pharmacy. Welcome!
Next faculty meeting
Place and agenda for next faculty meeting
Time: Wednesday 17 December 2025 at 15:30–17.00
Venue: Lecture Hall IV, University Main Building
Introduction
Mats Larhed, Vice-Rector
Up to Date with the Disciplinary Domain
Mats Larhed, Vice-Rector, Deputy Vice-Rector Eva Tiensuu Janson
Newly Appointed Professors introduce themselves
Erik Olsson – Professor of Health Psychology, Dept. of Women’s and Children’s Health
Lene Uhrbom – Professor of Molecular brain tumor research, Dept. of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology
Award Lecture – Eric K. Fernström Prize 2025
Katja Petzold, Professor, Dept. of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology
Accelererad Intermittent theta-burst stimulering med D-cycloserin Adderat mot DEPression (AIDA-DEP)
Robert Bodén, Professor, Dept. of Medical Sciences
Closing remarks
Next meeting: Wednesday 11 February, 2026
Upcoming meetings
About the faculty meetings
According to the curriculum U-55, all permanent academic teachers sat on the faculties' boards. With the 1977 higher education reform, it was decided that the faculty boards would only have representatives for the permanent academic teachers, instead of all teachers being included.
Therefore, the need arose for a meeting place for peer anchoring and conversation. That meeting place became the faculty meeting. At the medical and pharmaceutical faculties at Uppsala University, some tasks were transferred from the faculty boards to the faculty meetings. The most important was to appoint honorary doctorates.
In accordance with the definitions found in the Rules of Procedure for Uppsala University, all “academically qualified individuals” are called to the meetings. However, not everyone has the right to vote. There are certain rules about who has, that stipulates the requirements of the scope and duration of the employment. The others have the right to attend and express opinions. In addition to these, senior professors and staff at the domain offices are also called.
At the faculty meetings, current issues are discussed and new professors present themselves and their research. The meetings also appoint the Electoral Assembly of the disciplinary domain and appoint honorary doctorates.
From the rules of procedure
The term ‘academically qualified individual’ means in this context a person who is
- employed as a professor or
- employed as a teacher or researcher when the position requires a doctoral degree or equivalent expertise.