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Panel 8 – medicine | clinical
2.20 Psychiatry
The department has 2 professors aged 61 and 63 and 2 other researchers.
It currently appears to have ten PhD students and has had 5 undergraduates
over the past three years. There is 2.6million kroner in external funding
currently available to them and all of the research active members of
the department in both psychiatry and molecular psychiatry appear to be
active. The age of senior academic staff means that succession planning is
an issue but the department appears to be viable in the longer term.
2.21 Rehabilitation Medicine
Overall assessment: The unit was established in 2006 and therefore an
extensive evaluation of its achievements in the past is impossible. The
unit is part of the Centre of Aging and Supportive Environments, one of
the core activities of the Department of Clinical Sciences in Lund. The
unit can be evaluated as good to very good. It has definitely international
potential; however, the number of scientists involved as well as Ph.D.-
students should be increased.
Research infrastructure: The unit is linked to the large clinical Department
of Rehabilitation, one of the largest of its kind in Scandinavia
with over 250 employees. The unit has a well-equipped neuromuscular
research laboratory, a pain-measurement laboratory and access to several
major rehabilitation outcome databases.
Research quality: There is no information available on the research output
of the unit. Similarly there is no information on the grants acquired
within the unit. PhD-dissertations up to now have been completed at
other departments within Lund University or outside.
Collaboration: The unit is well imbedded within the Centre for Aging
and Supportive Environments of Lund University and has collaborations
with a large number of departments. It has however to be mentioned
that within the research areas of the unit a collaboration with Medical
Radiation Physics and its expertise on functional imaging would be
appropriate. There are also collaborations with foreign universities.
Research activity and teaching: The three topics on which the unit
focuses: neuro-rehabilitation, long-term pain and neuromuscular
function are obvious but promising areas of rehabilitation medicine. A
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