Stefan Lohmander MD, PhD

Stefan Lohmander, MD, PhD, is senior professor in Orthopedic Surgery at the Dept of Clinical Sciences at Lund University, Sweden. He received his training and degrees at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm. After serving as a visiting scientist at the NIH in Bethesda USA, he moved to Lund University. He has published more than 300 scientific papers, and is emeritus editor-in-chief of the journal ‘Osteoarthritis and Cartilage’.

Stefan Lohmander is a past president of the Osteoarthritis Research Society International. He has received the OARSI Award for Clinical Research, the Orthopedic Research Society USA Arthur Steindler Award for significant international contributions to the understanding of musculoskeletal disease and injury, the Marshall Schiff Award from the American College of Rheumatology to address the interface between rheumatology and orthopedics in musculoskeletal medicine, and the Bone and Joint Decade 2000-2010 Award for Research in Osteoarthritis. He has served as Visiting Professor at Dept of Orthopedics, University of Iowa, the Dept of Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, USA, and the Depts of Rheumatology, Orthopedics and Kolling Institute at University of Sydney, Australia, Dept of Orthopaedics and Traumatology University of Hong Kong, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology and Arthritis Research UK Centre for Osteoarthritis Pathogenesis, Oxford University, England. He has also served as a guest professor at the Institute of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, and the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, University of Southern Denmark.