Deborah L. Wilkerson Early Career Award
2012 Edward Lowman Award
This year, ACRM honors Elizabeth R. Skidmore, PhD, OTR/L for the contributions she is making to rehabilitation research during her early career work.
The Edward Lowman Award acknowledges an ACRM member who recognizes the importance of multidisciplinary teams in rehabilitation. Jeffrey Basford, MD will be honored this year for a career that reflects an energetic promotion of the spirit of interdisciplinary rehabilitation.
She will present her research during the annual conference in a lecture titled, Closing the Gap: Early Intervention for Cognitive Disability after Stroke. Dr. Skidmore, PhD, OTR/L is an associate professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy at the University of Pittsburgh, associate professor (Secondary Appointment), Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Graduate Faculty, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences.
Distinguished Member Award The Distinguished Member Award recognizes an ACRM member who has significantly contributed to the development and functioning of ACRM, demonstrating leadership skills, organizational abilities and public service. ACRM recognizes Ronald Seel, PhD for his extraordinary service to the organization, as a committee chair, task force chair, and BI-ISIG chair. Dr. Seel is the director of Brain Injury Research at the Virginia C. Crawford Research Institute, Shepherd Center in Atlanta, GA. Prior to Shepherd Center, he served as the executive director of the Southeastern Parkinson’s Disease Research Education and Clinical Center and as associate director of Research and Neuropsychological Services for the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center at the McGuire Veteran’s Medical Center in Richmond VA.
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Dr. Basford is a professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Mayo Clinic, where his research interests emphasize neurological rehabilitation and musculoskeletal pain. He is also director of Mayo’s NIH Medical Rehabilitation Research and Training Program, a corresponding member of the Japanese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine and past-director of his department’s Research Committee. Dr. Basford is currently Editor-in-Chief of the ACRM journal, Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
Elizabeth and Sidney Licht Award The Elizabeth and Sidney Licht Award recognizes excellence in scientific writing in rehabilitation medicine. Only articles published in the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation which present potential significance and empirical and theoretical contributions to rehabilitation medicine, and soundness of methodology and data analysis are considered for the award. Keith Cicerone, PhD Is honored this year for his article, Review of EvidenceBased Cognitive Rehabilitation, was found to meet this high standard. Dr. Cicerone is the Director of Neuropsychology and Rehabilitation Psychology at the JFK-Johnson Rehabilitation Institute and New Jersey Neuroscience Institute, JFK Medical Center. He has been the Clinical Director of the Cognitive Rehabilitation Department at JFK-Johnson Rehabilitation Institute since 1985. Dr. Cicerone is the Project Director for the New Jersey Traumatic Brain Injury Model System funded by the NIDRR. He holds academic appointments as Clinical Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and as Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Seton Hall University Graduate School of Medical Education. Dr. Cicerone is Board Certified in Clinical Neuropsychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology.
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