Speakers

Grethe Lunde, 51, is a former board member (now honorary member) of the Stroke Alliance for Europe (SAFE) and is also member of the Steering Committee for implementing the Stroke Action Plan for Europe 2018-2030. As a new member of the European Life After Stroke Forum Scientific Committee, she hopes to bring her nearly 30 yearlong stroke survivor experience to the good for other stroke survivors and their loved ones. Even professionals. She has also since being a part of SAFE had several “personal” presentations at the EU parliament and numerous online talks about how she is coping with life after stroke.  

She had a severe and lifechanging cerebral sinus venous thrombosis (CVTS) on her 22nd birthday and woke up from an induced coma totally paralysed. Luckily, she was sent to a rehabilitation hospital where she could relearn necessary skills that were lost that day in February in 1994. She had to start over on several levels and had to relearn how to speak, read, type, write – and most importantly she had to learn how to sit, stand and walk again. Motto; A saved life should be a life worth living – and if anything else doesn’t seem to work – SMILE.