Award of Håkan Mogren Prize to Carl Johan Fürst
The Håkan Mogren Foundation has selected the Senior Physician and Professor of Palliative Medicine, Carl Johan Fürst, as the recipient of the Foundation’s 2014 medical prize. Professor Fürst is awarded the prize for, and on behalf of, his ongoing contribution to human health and wellbeingCarl Johan Fürst is a specialist in oncology and works to optimise, as far as possible, the last stages of life for patients where no medical cure is available. During the 1980’s he was involved in building up a consultation service at Radiumhemmet, the department of oncology at the Karolinska Hospital, to