STRIVE-SCI brings together rehabilitation clinics, researchers, persons with lived experience and community organisations across Sweden to generate national knowledge about rehabilitation pathways after spinal cord injury.
STRIVE-SCI is organised as a national collaborative research programme that brings together complementary clinical, scientific and stakeholder perspectives.
Its organisational structure enables collaboration across specialised spinal cord injury rehabilitation, regional and municipal care, research environments and stakeholder engagement.
Scientific and operational coordination
Anestis Divanoglou; physiotherapist, Docent; Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Linköping University Hospital; Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
Sophie Jörgensen; MD, Docent; Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Skåne University Hospital, Department of Health Sciences, Lund University
Peter Flank, physiotherapist, PhD; Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation Medicine, Umeå University, Sweden
Emelie Butler Forslund, physiotherapist, PhD; Department of Neurobiology, Care Science and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden; Aleris Rehab Station, Stockholm, Sweden
Richard Levi, MD, professor; Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Linköping University Hospital; Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
Anna Granström, physiotherapist, MSc; Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Ryhov Hospital; Jönköping, Sweden
Jonas Gripenland, MD, PhD; Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Elisabeth Åkesson, MD, Docent, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
Erica Nord, RN, Rehab Söder, Region Kalmar County, Kalmar, Sweden
Stakeholder and lived-experience perspectives
Claes Hultling, MD, PhD, professor, Karolinska Institutet, co-founder of Spinalis Foundation and Spinalis Clinic
Nora Sandholt, MSc in Economics, Project Manager, Linköping University Hospital
Erik Berndtsson, BSc in Education, rehabilitation instructor, Skåne University Hospital
Gunilla Åhrén, PT, manager at Gothenburg Competence Center for SCI
Erica Nord, RN, Rehab Söder, Region Kalmar County, Kalmar, Sweden
Strategic scientific guidance
Elisabeth Åkesson, MD, Docent, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
Xiaolei Hu, MD, Docent, Umeå University Hospital
Kerstin Wahman, PT Docent, Aleris Rehab Station
Jan Lexell, MD, Professor, Lund University, Ängelholm Hospital
Nada Andelic, MD, Professor, Oslo University
Lisa Holmlund, OT, PhD, assistant professor at Karolinska Institutet, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Unit of Intervention and Implementation Research for Worker Health
Johanna Wangdell, OT, PhD Sahlgrenska University Hospital and Gothenburg University
Ulrica Antepohl, OT, PhD, department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Linköping University Hospital
Wolfram Antepohl, MD, PhD, department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Linköping University Hospital
Christina Petersson, RN, Docent, director Jönköping Academy; Department of quality improvement and leadership, Jönköping University
Malin Tistad, PT, Docent, Dalarna University School of Health and Welfare, Dalarna County, Falun, Sweden
Henrike Häbel, statistician, PhD, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Bioclinicum, Solna, Sweden
STRIVE-SCI is based on national collaboration between rehabilitation clinics and academic partners across Sweden.
The programme brings together a wide network of rehabilitation environments, providing comprehensive national coverage of specialised spinal cord injury rehabilitation.
This collaborative infrastructure supports multicentre data collection, joint methodological development and a system-level understanding of rehabilitation pathways across regions.
