Honorary assignments
Honorary memberships
- American Association for Surgery of Trauma (AAST)
- L´Academie de Chirurgie Francais
- European Society for Trauma & Emergency Surgery (ESTES)
- Hungarian Society of Disaster Medicine
- Scandinavian Surgical Society
- Svensk Kirurgisk Förening
- Svensk Katastrofmedicinsk Förening
- Svensk Förening för Endokrin Kirurgi
- Svensk Förening för Traumatologi & Akutsjukvård
Honorary lectures
The William Fitts Lecture, American Association for Surgery of Trauma, New Orleans 2006
The Don Trunkey Lecture, World Congress of Surgery, Adelaide 2009
The first Sten Lennquist Lecture (endocrine surgery) International Association of Endocrine Surgery postgraduate course, Visby 2009
The Theodor Kocher Lecture, University of Harvard, Boston 2010
The Silberstein Lecture, University of Uniformed Services, Washington DC, 2011
The first Sten Lennquist Lecture (trauma/emergency surgery), European Society for Trauma & Emergency Surgery, Amsterdam 2015
Decorations and medals
- Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences medal for contributions in disaster medicine of importance for Military Medicine (2002)
- Rotary´s Paul Harris medal for International Relief Work (2003)
- William Fitts medal (AAST) for Lecturing in Trauma (2006)
- American Association for Surgery of Trauma´s medalj för “lecturing in trauma” (2007)
- ESTES disaster & military surgery sections plaquette for International Leadership in Disaster Medicine (2015)
- Orden of Insignio Distincao Cordao, Portugal, for contributions in Disaster Medicine of national benefit (2018)