Katharina Stibrant Sunnerhagen is a physician, researcher and educator [1] specialized in rehabilitation medicine. She is best known for her research in stroke rehabilitation. She is currently the Professor and Head of Rehabilitation Medicine Research Group at University of Gothenburg. [2] [3]
Sunnerhagen graduated from the University of Gothenburg with a degree in medicine. She underwent specialist training in rehabilitation medicine. She was awarded a doctor of philosophy degree for her PhD thesis titled Regional Wall Motion in the Left Ventricle. Sunnerhagen was involved in drafting recommendations for stroke rehabilitation in Europe at World Stroke Congresses in 2010 and 2012. She is a member of scientific councils in stroke organizations including the Stroke Victims Association, the Handlaren Hjalmar Svenssons Foundation and the Greta and Einar Askers Foundation. She is a board member of the Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine (since 2003), Acta Neurologica (since 2009) and Rehabilitation Research & Practice (2010). Presently, she is working as a consultant at Sahlgrenska University Hospital and as a guest professor at Sunnaas Rehbilitation Hospital, Norway. [4] She was elected as a member of the board of directors at the European Stroke Organization in 2016. [5] She has published over 200 peer-reviewed original articles and several chapters in textbooks. [2]
The University of Gothenburg is a university in Sweden's second largest city, Gothenburg. Founded in 1891, the university is the third-oldest of the current Swedish universities and, with 53,624 students and 6,707 staff members, it is one of the largest universities in the Nordic countries.
The Sahlgrenska University Hospital is a hospital network associated with the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg in Gothenburg, Sweden. With 17,000 employees the hospital is the largest hospital in Sweden by a considerable margin, and the third largest hospital in Europe. It has 2,000 beds distributed across three campuses in Sahlgrenska, Östra, and Mölndal. It provides emergency and basic care for the 700,000 inhabitants of the Göteborg region and offers highly specialised care for the 1.7 million inhabitants of West Sweden. It is named after philanthropist Niclas Sahlgren.
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center is a public academic health science center in Dallas, Texas. With approximately 23,000 employees, more than 3,000 full-time faculty, and nearly 4 million outpatient visits per year, UT Southwestern is the largest medical school in the University of Texas System and the State of Texas.
Arvid Carlsson was a Swedish neuropharmacologist who is best known for his work with the neurotransmitter dopamine and its effects in Parkinson's disease. For his work on dopamine, Carlsson was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2000, together with Eric Kandel and Paul Greengard.
Ross D. Zafonte is an American board-certified physiatrist known for his academic work in traumatic brain injury and is recognized as an expert in his field. His textbook, Brain Injury Medicine: Principles and Practice, is regarded as a standard in brain injury care. Zafonte has spoken at national and international conferences about traumatic brain injury, spasticity and other neurological disorders, and has authored more than 300 peer review journal articles, abstracts and book chapters. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Neurotrauma and NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation.
The Medical University of Varna (MU-Varna) is a Bulgarian state school for higher education dedicated to training specialists in the fields of medicine and healthcare who graduate with the educational and qualification degrees of Master, Bachelor and Professional Bachelor. The university has a legal entity status with the following scope of business activities: training of cadres and professional qualification; training of PhD students; postgraduate education for medical and non-medical cadres; conducting medical diagnosis, prevention, consultation, rehabilitation, and expert services at the university hospitals; scientific research and applied sciences; international cooperation in the field of education and science; administrative, social, sport, publishing, information, and other activities.
Agnes Binagwaho is a Rwandan Politician, pediatrician, co-founder and the former vice chancellor of the University of Global Health Equity (2017-2022). In 1996, she returned to Rwanda where she provided clinical care in the public sector as well as held many positions including the position of Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Health of Rwanda from October 2008 until May 2011 and Minister of Health from May 2011 until July 2016. She has been a professor of global health delivery practice since 2016 and a professor of pediatrics since 2017 at the University of Global Health Equity. She has served the health sector in various high-level government positions. She resides in Kigali.
Rajiv Ratan is an Indian American academic, professor, administrator and scientist based in New York. He is the Burke Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medicine. Since 2003, he has served as the executive director of Burke Neurological Institute and as a member of the Council of Affiliated Deans of Weill Cornell Medicine.
Sunil K. Agrawal is an Indian roboticist and professor of Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science with secondary appointment in Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine at Columbia University. Agrawal is the author of more than 500 journals, three books, and has 15 U.S. patents.
Rhian M. Touyz Koppel MBBCh, MSc (Med), PhD, FRCP, FRSE, FMedSci, FCAHS is a Canadian medical researcher. She is currently serving as the Executive Director and Chief Scientific Officer of the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre in Montreal, Canada, since 2021. A clinician scientist, her research primarily focuses on hypertension and cardiovascular disease.
Teresa Lagergård (Lenartowicz) was born 1946 in Sosnowiec, Poland. She is professor emerita at University of Gothenburg, Sahlgrenska Academy, Institute of Biomedicine, Department of Microbiology and Immunology.
Matire Louise Ngarongoa Harwood is a New Zealand clinical researcher and trainee general practitioner. She is an associate professor at the University of Auckland. Harwood was the 2017 New Zealand L'Oréal UNESCO For Women in Science Fellow. Her expertise is in Māori health, focussed on reducing health inequity by improving indigenous health and well-being.
Pam Fredman is a Swedish professor of neuroscience and former rector of the University of Gothenburg. From 2016, Fredman is the President of the International Association of Universities
Henrik Anckarsäter was born in Gothenburg, Sweden, as Pär Henrik Georg Söderström, was Professor of Forensic Psychiatry and co-founder of the Centre for Ethics, Law and Mental Health at the University of Gothenburg, and a consulting psychiatrist at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital. He has been guest professor at the Université Paris XII, France, and Lund University, Sweden, and board director of the International Academy of Law and Mental Health and on the board of the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine. His research focus included child neuropsychiatry, including autism spectrum conditions, and the development of personality and identity in young adult years. He published nearly 200 papers in international peer-reviewed journals.
Fannie Jean Gaston-Johansson (1938–2023) was an American professor of nursing and university distinguished professor at Johns Hopkins University. Gaston-Johansson researched health disparities, pain management, and coping strategies in women breast cancer patients. Gaston-Johansson was the first African-American woman tenured full professor at Johns Hopkins University. She previously served as a dean and full professor at University of Gothenburg and an associate professor at University of Nebraska Medical Center. Gaston-Johansson was named a Living Legend of the American Academy of Nursing in 1995.
Amy Joy Houtrow is an American pediatrician and physical medicine and rehabilitation physician. She is the Endowed Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Suzanne L Dickson is a neurobiologist and Professor of Neuroendocrinology in the Department of Physiology within the Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. She graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a B.Sc. (honours) in Pharmacology. Her doctorate research was undertaken at the Babraham Institute with Professor Gareth Leng and she graduated with a Ph.D. in Neuroendocrinology from the University of Cambridge in 1993. She is also an Honorary Professor in the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine at the University of Edinburgh.
Ana Catarina Fonseca is a Portuguese neurologist, researcher and university teacher.
Pauline Rudd is a British biochemist and Professor at the Microbiome Institute, University College Cork. She is a founder of Wessex Biochemicals, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and was awarded the James Gregory Medal in 2010.
David John Werring is a British physician, neurologist, and academic specialising in stroke. He is professor of Neurology at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology and current head of Stroke Research Centre and the department of Brain Repair & Rehabilitation at UCL.