University of Gothenberg, Sweden

Prof Katharina Stibrant Sunnerhagen MD, PhD, 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 380 original papers in international peer reviewed journals with and H-index of 81. She is the chair of the Swedish Association for Rehabilitation Medicine and has served as Swedish representative in the ESPRM and UESM. She is an ESPRM Senior fellow. She is the chair of the scientific committee of the Swedish stroke organization. She was involved in the development of “Action Plan for Stroke in Europe 2018 – 2030 and its update She was 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, in 2022 the ISPRM Sidney Licht award and in 2023 recipient of the ACRM award for “EXCELLENCE in Post-Acute Stroke Rehabilitation“. 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.