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This year’s recipient of the Danish Disability Foundation’s Researcher Prize is Professor of Paediatric Orthopaedics and Consultant Bjarne Møller-Madsen from Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital. He receives the award in recognition of his special efforts to help some of the children facing the most difficulty in their daily lives.
2020.06.09 |
Bjarne Møller-Madsen from the Department of Clinical Medicine receives the Danish Disability Foundation’s Researcher Prize 2020. Photo: AUH.
In his work, Professor and Consultant Bjarne Møller-Madsen treats children who are challenged and troubled by functional impairments and pain. Some of them due to cerebral palsy and others due to complicated musculoskeletal disorders. But all the children share a common trait of experiencing difficulties in their everyday lives due to their disability.
Bjarne Møller-Madsen and his research colleagues are determined to do something about this. For example, by developing a less traumatic method for evening out the children's either crooked legs or differences in length, and by carrying out medical trials intended to improve the pain relief available to the children. All in the hope of improving their quality of life.
Each year, following recommendations from the management of Denmark’s universities and institutions of higher education, the Danish Disability Foundation honours a researcher who has excelled in the prevention, treatment and reduction of the disadvantages caused by physical disabilities. The prize is accompanied by DKK 100,000.
Hear more about Bjarne Møller-Madsen’s research in the video about the Danish Disability Foundation’s Researcher Prize 2020 (in Danish).
Professor, Consultant, DMSc Bjarne Møller-Madsen
Aarhus University, Department of Clinical Medicine and
Aarhus University Hospital, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Mobile: (+45) 20 40 80 25
Email: bmm@clin.au.dk