Bo Norrving - Biography#
Bo Norrving is senior professor in neurology at Lund University, Sweden. His research activities have focused on stroke epidemiology, stroke syndromes, small vessel disease, ultrasound, neuroimaging, clinical genetics, clinical trials and organisation of stroke services. Bo Norrving has authored >600 publications and has a h-index of 103 and 99 000 citations in the Web of Science All Databases. He chaired the world’s largest study on stroke in the young, and a member of steering, safety and endpoint committees of several seminal clinical trials. He is a founder the world’s 1st national stroke registry, and a prototype for many other stroke registers in the world.
Bo Norrving was President of the World Stroke Organisation from 2008 to 2012, and he served as Immediate Past President till 2016. During his term as President, the WSO underwent a rapid expansion, with several new initiatives, and became closely involved with the WHO and the UN placing stroke in the focus on prioritized actions on non-communicable diseases. He participated in several high-level NCD meetings including the landmark 2011 UN general assembly meeting. He was portraited in Lancet Neurology 2013 as “Bo Norrving – putting stroke on the world map”.
Before being elected as WSO president, Bo Norrving played an important preparatory role in different committees which regularly met during the 1990-ies with the aim to increase the position of stroke and establish governmental connections. He was one of the founding executives of the World Stroke Organization in 2006.
He chaired the ICD-11 Cerebrovascular Diseases Working Group and was a member of the advisory group for revision of ICH-11 for neurological diseases at the World Health Organisation. In this work, all cerebrovascular diseases have been merged to form a single block under the section of Diseases of the Nervous System, and precise definitions of terms and codes have been included. Bo Norrving played a major role in this work, which will have a profound effect on the positioning of stroke in several aspects in the future.
