MD, PhD
Associate professor and Senior Consultant PRM Physician
Head of academic discipline of rehabilitation medicine
Coordinator of the ESPRM Scientific Committee
Xiaolei Hu, MD, PhD is an Associate Professor and Head of academic discipline of in Rehabilitation Medicine at Umeå University, and works as a Senior Consultant PRM Physiciant in University Hospital of Umeå, Sweden. She is active in local, national and international organizations dealing with NeuroRehabilitation.
Dr. Hu is a Chair of the Stroke Special Interest Scientific Committee (Stroke-SISC) in European Society of Physical & Rehabilitation Medicine (ESPRM), the member of the Executive Committee of ESPRM and the coordinator of the ESPRM Scientific Committee. As an international delegate, Dr. Hu is representing the Swedish Society of Rehabilitation Medicine (SFRM) in ESPRM, the European Union of Medical Specialists - Section of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (PRM section & Board of UEMS) and the International Society of Physical & Rehabilitation Medicine (ISPRM). Dr. Hu is also a fellow of American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (FACRM). She is an associate editor in the Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, and is on the editorial board of the European Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine.
Dr. Hu’s research focuses on stroke rehabilitation, including evaluating rehabilitation needs with a digital tool Rehabkompassen® through a national multicenter RCT (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04915027), cognitive recovery and neuroplasticity (Project KOGNEST-fMRI), and implementation of evidence-based motor rehabilitations with high-intensity, task-specific training into the clinical practice (Project IMPRESS). Together with her broad international networks, Dr. Hu works on evaluating the stroke rehabilitation care service within Europe (project SUSTAIN-EU), traumatic brain injury, Covid and e-health. Dr Hu’s research team consists of three doctoral students, research nurses, RCT process coordinator, biomedical engineers and statisticians. Dr. Hu has received over 30 million SEK of external grant funding as a main applicant under recent years.
Dr. Hu has more than 1000 hours’ teaching experiences within undergraduate and graduate courses in the Medical Program and the Physiotherapy program at Umeå University. Dr. Hu was a director of a national residency education course on Stroke Rehabilitation 2021. She supervises or has supervised four doctoral students and 18 postgraduate students in the past ten years. Beside the research students, Dr. Hu supervises various clinical students and junior physicians on daily basis.