2023 Award of Excellence in Post-Acute Stroke Rehabilitation
CONGRATULATIONS 2023 RECIPIENT
Congratulations to Katharina Stibrant Sunnerhagen, MD, PhD the 2023 recipient of the ACRM Award of Excellence in Post-Acute Stroke Rehabilitation. This award lectureship recognizes outstanding clinical, intellectual, and service contributions in the area of stroke.
Dr. Stibrant Sunnerhagen will present the award during the ACRM Annual Conference.
ABOUT KATHARINA STIBRANT SUNNERHAGEN
Dr. Katharina Stibrant Sunnerhagen is professor and chair in Rehabilitation Medicine, head at the department of Clinical Neuroscience at the University of Gothenburg and also serves as a senior consultant at Sahlgrenska University Hospital. She has been a professor at the University of Oslo, Norway as well as Riga Stradin’s University, Latvia. Since the early 1990’s she has been active in stroke care and research. This involves longitudinal studies as well as intervention studies, covers muscle, muscle function, spasticity, cognition, life situation and the use of new technology; quantitative as well as qualitative research. She has authored more than 310 original papers in international peer reviewed journals with and H-index of 68. She is the chair of the scientific committee of the Swedish stroke organization. She has served as Swedish representative in the ESPRM and UESM. She is an ESPRM Senior fellow. She is a a fellow and previous board member of the European Stroke Organization. She was involved in the development of “Action Plan for Stroke in Europe 2018 – 2030. She was nominated by the World Stroke Organization and now serves as the stroke expert at WHO Rehabilitation 2030. In 2020, she received the Barbro B Johansson award for stroke recovery by the World Stroke Organization. She (as on of 3 Europeans) contributed to the very recent AHA Guideline for the Management of Patients With Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage: Prof Sunnerhagen teaches at all levels and different professions, supervises students in a multiprofessional environment. She sees patients at the neurointesive care, neurosurgery and the stroke unit as well as at the rehabilitation medicine unit and long-term outpatient clinics. During the last year, she has been involved in COVID rehabilitation locally and nationally. She started a rehabilitation team at the university hospital in Mid-April 2020. She has been involved in developing national guidelines for COVID rehabilitation and post-covid care. She has been the Swedish rep for WHO in setting the definition for post- covid and has been involved with WHO Europe regarding post-COVID care.
