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Xiaolei Hu

MD, PhD

Associate professor and Senior Consultant PRM Physician
Head of academic discipline of rehabilitation medicine

Coordinator of the ESPRM Scientific Committee 

Research qualifications: Docent

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Associate professor, senior consultant (attending) physician at Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation Section: Rehabilitation Medicine, Affiliated
Location
-, Biologihuset Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå

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.

Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, Medical Journals Sweden 2024, Vol. 56
Sefastsson, Annika; Marklund, Ingela; Littbrand, Håkan; et al.
European Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, Edizioni Minerva Medica 2024, Vol. 60, (2) : 165-181
Zampolini, Mauro; Oral, Aydan; Barotsis, Nikolaos; et al.
Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Vol. 104, (2) : 355-358
Devos, Hannes; Ng, Christi; Santos, Flavia H.; et al.
Journal of Neuroscience and Neurological Surgery, Auctores Publishing 2023, Vol. 13, (1)
Elgh, Eva; Hu, Xiao-Lei
NeuroImage: Clinical, Elsevier 2023, Vol. 37
Eriksson, Johan; Nyberg, Lars; Elgh, Eva; et al.
European Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, Edizioni Minerva Medica 2023, Vol. 59, (2) : 136-144
Marklund, Ingela; Sefastsson, Annika; Fure, Brynjar; et al.
Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Elsevier 2022, Vol. 103, (9) : 1874-1882
Burns, Suzanne Perea; Fleming, Talya K.; Webb, Sam S.; et al.
Digital Health, Sage Publications 2022, Vol. 8
Hu, Xiao-Lei; Jonzén, Karolina; Karlsson, Marcus; et al.
JMIR Human Factors, JMIR Publications 2022, Vol. 9, (3)
Hu, Xiao-Lei; Jonzén, Karolina; Lindahl, Olof A; et al.
Brain Injury, Taylor & Francis 2022, Vol. 36, (7) : 829-840
Kim, Sonya; Mortera, Marianne; Heyn, Patricia; et al.
European Journal of Integrative Medicine, Elsevier 2022, Vol. 55
Wen, Pey-Shan; Vora, Ariana; Mortera, Marianne; et al.
European Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, Edizioni Minerva Medica 2022, Vol. 58, (4) : 503-510
Zampolini, Mauro; Selb, Melissa; Boldrini, Paolo; et al.
Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Elsevier 2021, Vol. 102, (5) : 1035-1039
Akinwuntan, Abiodun; Hu, Xiao-Lei; Terrill, lexandra L.; et al.
Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, Vol. 53, (3)
Andersson, Jenni; Stålnacke, Britt-Marie; Sörlin, Ann; et al.
Neuroscience and Neurological Surgery, Auctores 2021, Vol. 10, (1)
Elgh, Eva; Hu, Xiao-Lei
Läkartidningen, Stockholm: Läkartidningen Förlag 2021, Vol. 118
Hu, Xiao-Lei; Stibrant Sunnerhaagen, Katharina
Läkartidningen, Läkartidningen Förlag AB 2021, Vol. 118, (36-37)
Hu, Xiao-Lei; Stibrant Sunnerhaagen, Katharina
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, Elsevier 2021, Vol. 22, (11) : 2281-2288
Kletzel, Sandra L.; Sood, Pallavi; Negm, Ahmed; et al.
Läkartidningen, Stockholm: Läkartidningen Förlag 2021, Vol. 118
Lexell, Jan; Hu, Xiao-Lei
Läkartidningen, Läkartidningen Förlag AB 2021, Vol. 118, (36-37)
Lexell, Jan; Hu, Xiao-Lei
Physiotherapy Research International, John Wiley & Sons 2021, Vol. 26, (2)
Wang, Rongrong; Hu, Xiao-Lei; Zhang, Tong; et al.
Läkartidningen, Xiaolei Hu 2020, (19-20)
Borg, Kristian; Brodda Jansen, Gunilla; Gripenstedt, Ulla-Britt; et al.
Frontiers in Neurology, Frontiers Media S.A. 2020, Vol. 11
Elgh, Eva; Hu, Xiao-Lei
Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, Mary Ann Liebert 2020, Vol. 26, (8) : 663-665
Kim, Sonya; Capo-Lugo, Carmen; Reed, William R.; et al.
Frontiers in Neurology, Frontiers Media S.A. 2019, Vol. 10
Elgh, Eva; Hu, Xiaolei
Brain Injury, Taylor & Francis 2019, Vol. 33, (4) : 442-455
Kim, Sonya; Mortera, Marianne; Hu, Xiao-Lei; et al.
Journal of Rehabilitation clinical communications, Vol. 2
Magaard, Gustaf; Stålnacke, Britt-Marie; Sörlin, Ann; et al.
PM&R, American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2019, Vol. 11, (9) : 996-1003
Schwartz, Jaclyn K.; Capo-Lugo, Carmen E.; Akinwuntan, Abiodun Emmanuel; et al.
The Gerontologist, Oxford University Press 2019, Vol. 59, (6) : E764-E781
Sood, Pallavi; Kletzel, Sandra L.; Krishnan, Shilpa; et al.
Hu, Xiao-Lei; Stibrant Sunnerhagen, Katharina
Läkartidningen, Sveriges läkarförbund 2018, Vol. 115, (51-52)
Hu, Xiao-Lei; Wester, Per; Stibrant Sunnerhagen, Katharina
Läkartidningen, Vol. 115, (51-52)
Hu, Xiao-Lei; Wester, Per; Stibrant Sunnerhagen, Katharina
Journal of Stroke & Cerebrovascular Diseases, Elsevier 2018, Vol. 27, (11) : 3224-3235
Magaard, Gustaf; Wester, Per; Levi, Richard; et al.
ACRM 95th Annual Conference, Dallas, TX, USA, 30 Sept – 3 Oct, 2018
Schwartz, Jaclyn; Thomas, Lauren; Belagaje, Samir; et al.
Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Saunders Elsevier 2017, Vol. 98, (11) : 2347-2349
Hu, Xiaolei; Heyn, Patricia C.; Schwartz, Jaclyn; et al.
Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Vol. 98, (10) : 142-
Kim, Sonya; Mortera, Marianne; Hoffecker, Lilian; et al.
Journal of Medical Engineering & Technology, Taylor & Francis 2016, Vol. 40, (5) : 270-279
Hellström, Thomas; Lindahl, Olof; Bäcklund, Tomas; et al.
Aula Nordica, Umeå: 2016
Hu, Xiaolei
Stroketeamkongress, Umeå, Sverige, 12 oktober, 2016
Hu, Xiaolei
Chicago, USA: 2016
Vuagnat, Hubert; Zaslaer, Nathan; Nguyen, Vu; et al.
Stockholm: Socialstyrelsen 2014
Ertzgaard, Per; Hu, Xiaolei; Levi, Richard
Neuroscience Letters, Elsevier 2010, Vol. 476, (2) : 79-83
Hu, Xiao-Lei; Bergström, Sven-Anders; Brink, Mikael; et al.
European Journal of Neuroscience, Wiley-Blackwell 2004, Vol. 20, (5) : 1177-1188
Hu, Xiao-Lei; Olsson, Tommy; Johansson, Inga-Maj; et al.
Acta Neuropathologica, Springer 2002, Vol. 104, (5) : 462-70
Hu, XiaoLei; Johansson, Inga-Maj; Brännström, Thomas; et al.
Brain Research Protocols, Elsevier 2001, Vol. 7, (1) : 76-85
Hu, Xiaolei; Wester, Per; Brännström, Thomas; et al.
Brain Research, Vol. 849, (1-2) : 175-186
Hu, XiaoLei; Brännström, Thomas; Gu, Weigang; et al.

Research projects

1 August 2015
1 January 2014
1 December 2013

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.