Catharina Parai, PhD student at Department of Orthopedics, recently accepted the European Spine Journal Max Aebi Award for Clinical Sciences at the Eurospine meeting in Barcelona. The award went to Catharina and her co-authors Olle Hägg, Bengt Lind and Helena Brisby, all from the Department of Orthopedics, for a clinical article they published last year in European Spine Journal. Catharina Parai presented the award-winning article entitled “The Value of Patient Global Assessment in Lumbar Spine Surgery: an evaluation based on more than 90,000 patients” at the last day of the meeting, September 21, and also received a prize check of 20,000 Euro .