Jan Lexell

Jan Lexell (born March 13, 1958) is a Swedish physician and academic, who is a specialist in rehabilitation medicine and neurology. He is head of the rehabilitation medicine research group in the Department of Health Sciences at Lund University, Lund.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} One of his research areas is the effect of physical activity on the aging process.^[3][6] Lexell is also senior consultant in the Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine at Skane University Hospital, Lund.^[2][7][8][9] Lexell's research is frequently cited;^[10][11] in particular, his work during the 1980s on examining the vastus lateralis muscle immediately post-mortem, which helped identify an atrophy in type-2 fiber area in older people,^[12] Some of his most important research was carried out in 1989–90, while working at the University of Liverpool, UK, with grants from several major Swedish medical organisations.^[13][14]

Sports medicine

Lexell is actively engaged in sports medicine, in particular paralympic sports medicine.^{[4][15][16][17][18]} Lexell is a standing member of the Medical committee in the International Paralympic Committee (IPC),^[5][15][19] and was directly involved in preparing Sweden's paralympic athletes for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio.^[20] He was a contributor to the Textbook of Sports Medicine: Basic Science and Clinical Aspects of Sports Injury and Physical Activity, published by Wiley in 2003, revised 2008.^[21]

Awards

• 2017 – honorary doctorate (h.c.) at Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden.^[22][23][24]