Philip Sandblom

Philip Sandblom (October 29, 1903 – February 21, 2001)[citation needed] was a Swedish academician, professor of surgery and sailor who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics.

At the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, he was a crew member of the Swedish boat Sylvia together with his father which won the bronze medal in the 8 metre class.

Sandblom graduated from the Karolinska Institute with the dissertation The tensile strength of healing wounds in 1944.

One of Sandblom authored books was Creativity and Disease: How illness affects literature, art and music (1992).

After retiring from Lund University, Sandblom was active as a physician and scientist in San Diego, California, USA, and Lausanne, Switzerland.

Sandblom at the 300th anniversary celebration of the foundation of the University of Kiel , Germany , 1965.