Fellow of ACRM
The ACRM Fellows Committee and Board of Governors are pleased to recognize Dr. Ceren Yarar Fisher for her outstanding record of professional service to ACRM and for the nationally significant contributions she has made to the field of medical rehabilitation by conferring on her the designation of ACRM Fellow.
Please join them in congratulating Dr. Fisher. She will be recognized for her service and achievement at the The ACRM Gala, during the ACRM 2023 Annual Conference (ticketed event). All registered attendees are welcome and encouraged to attend.
ABOUT CEREN YARAR FISHER
Dr. Yarar-Fisher is an Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Research at the Ohio State University Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Director of Clinical Research at the Belford Center for Spinal Cord Injury. Her translational research program focuses on understanding the pathophysiology of traumatic spinal cord injury in the acute and chronic stages with the purpose of developing novel dietary and rehabilitation strategies to improve neuro-recovery, metabolism, and bowel function. Thus, her laboratory is currently developing and testing therapeutic diets and electrical stimulation programs to evaluate new ways to prevent neuronal death, promote recovery and function in the acute stages and improve body composition, gut microbiome composition, and skeletal muscle and metabolic health in the chronic stages of SCI. She has received several NIH and NIDILRR funding to support her investigations in SCI. She was selected as one of the 10 Outstanding Young Persons of Turkey by Junior Chamber International for her work in Academic leadership and accomplishment. She served two years as Treasurer, Chair-Elect, and Chair in American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM) SCI-Special Interest Group. She believes science works best to produce novel insights when influenced by diverse ideas from individuals working together. She has had the privilege of mentoring a wide variety of students and trainees including high school students, undergraduate and graduate students, post-docs, PM&R residents, and junior faculty. Throughout her career, Dr. Yarar-Fisher has devoted time to support the critical peer-review process, serving as an editorial board member of a prestigious SCI journal, an active manuscript reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals, and ad-hoc reviewer for the various NIH, DOD, NIDILRR, and Craig H. Neilson Foundation study sections.
