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Katharina Stibrant Sunnerhagen (she/her/hers)

Professor Chair in Rehabilitation Medicine, Section Head Clinical Neuroscience
Univ of Gothenburg, Sweden

Dr. Katharina Stibrant Sunnerhagen is professor and chair in Rehabilitation Medicine, head at the department of Clinical Neuroscience at the University of Gothenburg, 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, muscle function, spasticity, cognition, life situation and the use of new technology; quantitative as well as qualitative research. She has authored more than 300 papers (H-index of 71). 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 received the Barbro B Johansson award n Stroke Recovery, 2020. and was the Sidney Licht lecturer at the ISPRM 2022. She was nominated by the World Stroke Organization and now serves as the stroke expert at WHO Rehabilitation 2030. S

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