2007-07-24
The editor-in-chief of the Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, Gunnar Grimby, has been awarded the Herman Flax Lifetime Achievement Award. The award was presented to professor emeritus Gunnar Grimby at the 4th World Congress of the International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (ISPRM) in Seoul, Korea, in June 2007. This award is the highest honour of the ISPRM, and is awarded every two years.
The ISPRM uses this award to honour individuals with a lifetime of outstanding and unique contributions to the care of individuals with disability within the specialty of physical and rehabilitation medicine. Individuals receiving this award will have made contributions in the areas of patient care, research, education, administration and advocacy, including advancing the ISPRM. Even if professor Grimby�s extensive research at a high level certainly has been a major reason for his award, it is probably to some extent also an honour for his editorial work as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine.
Jan Ekholm MD PhD
Chairman of the non-profit Foundation for Rehabilitation Information