2023 Edward Lowman Award
ACRM is pleased to honor Trudy Mallinson, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA, FACRM with the 2023 Edward Lowman Award. The Award was established in 1989 in honor of Edward Lowman, MD, and recognizes ACRM members whose careers reflect an energetic promotion of the spirit of interdisciplinary rehabilitation. Dr. Dams-O’Connor is Director of the Brain Injury Research Center of Mount Sinai and Professor in the Departments of Rehabilitation Medicine and Neurology at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. This award will be presented during the ACRM 2023 Annual Conference.
MORE ABOUT TRUDY MALLINSON
Dr. Trudy Mallinson is Director of the Advanced Metrics Lab (AML) at The George Washington University. Since 2014, AML has served as a collaborative meeting place for those interested in promoting better rehabilitation outcomes measures developed by and for persons with disabilities and their care partners. AML hosts the Wright Group, a monthly meeting of rehabilitation researchers using Rasch Measurement Theory from around the country. Her primary research thesis is that better outcomes measurement can improve health care and inform health care policy. She advocates that clinical assessments should look and operate like rulers, so they can be used that way: to measure a single dimension at a time in order to compare real patient differences, regardless of who is using the assessment or who they are measuring. She is particularly interested in how visualizing measurement data can help clinicians, care partners and patients can make better treatment decisions, together. Her research addresses measuring recovery of consciousness in patients with severe brain injury, describing and measuring the process of shared decision-making, and standardizing and calibrating functional performance assessments to enable comparison of patient outcomes across health care settings. Dr. Mallinson is Associate Professor in the Department of Clinical Research and Leadership, The George Washington University, Washington DC. She is also Associate Dean for Research in Health Sciences, Director of the Primary Care Advanced Research Training T32 post-doctoral fellowship program, and Director of Doctoral Research for the PhD in Translational Health Sciences.
