Anna Lundh Awarded the Matts Halldin Prize 2024

The Matts Halldin Prize is awarded annually to honor significant contributions in clinical research or teaching. This year’s prize winner is Anna Lundh, M.D., Ph.D., and specialist in child and adolescent psychiatry at BUP FoUU and the National Center for Suicide Research and Prevention (NASP), Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics (LIME), and the Department of Clinical Neuroscience (CNS).

Jury’s Motivation 

“Anna Lundh, M.D. and specialist in child and adolescent psychiatry, has been deeply committed for 30 years to spreading knowledge and skills to new generations of doctors, nurses, and psychologists in child and adolescent psychiatry in Stockholm. She has been instrumental in creating a new digital training for primary care in suicide risk assessment of children and adolescents and regularly contributes her expertise at continuing education for the region’s employees. She has also played a crucial role in developing and improving teaching in the medical and speech therapy programs at Karolinska Institutet. She continuously shows a high commitment to both the future of education and collegial development. Her educational efforts and dedication to knowledge dissemination have had a profound and lasting impact on child and adolescent psychiatry, making her an excellent recipient of the Matts Halldin Prize.”

Matts Halldin Prize 

The prize is awarded by the Opuscula Medica association, which started at Södersjukhuset in 1961 and has its roots in the medical journal of the same name. The journal continued for over 30 years, although the publication rate gradually decreased. At the annual meeting in 1992, it was decided to cease the publication of Opuscula Medica. Instead, the Matts Halldin Prize was established in memory of the journal and to honor significant contributions in clinical research and teaching.