Håkan Örman (formerly Petersson) was born in Åtvidaberg, Sweden. He received a M.Sc. degree in Industrial Engineering and Management in 1997 and a Ph.D. degree in Medical Informatics in 2003 and is now working as a researcher.

Activities and interests:  Research areas are reliability of coded data, structured medical terminologies and terminology services in diagnostic coding.

Teaching: Examiner, lecturer and tutor in undergraduate courses, e.g. TBMI19 Medical Information systems and TBMI01 Medical Decision Support.