EARLY CAREER (and New Investigator) AWARDS AT 2015 ACRM ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Join me in congratulating the winners of these prestigious ACRM awards!

Tatyana Mollayeva, MD, PhD

Deborah L. Wilkerson Early Career Award

Dr. Tatyana Mollayeva is the 2015 recipient. Dr. Mollayeva is currently a member of the Rehabilitation Science Institute’s Collaborative Program in Neuroscience, RST, RPSGT, she is a Researcher on Sleep in Traumatic Brain Injury at Toronto Rehab, and a Work Disability Prevention CIHR Strategic Program Fellow at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health.

Brain Injury-Interdisciplinary Special Interest Group Early Career Poster Award

Lise Worthen-Chaudhari won for her poster entitled, Concussion symptoms in adolescents are alleviated through use of a gamified health app. Ms. Worthen-Chaudhari has her MS in Kinesiology and her Masters in Fine Arts. She is faculty in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Ohio State University.

Spinal Cord Injury-Interdisciplinary Special Interest Group Early Career Poster Award

Swati Mehta, a PhD Candidate at Lawson Health Research Institute, won for her poster on Effectiveness of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation for the Management of Neuropathic Pain after Spinal Cord Injury: A Meta-Analysis.

Cancer Research Networking Group New Investigator Poster Award

Arash Asher, MD from Cedars Sinai Medical Center won for his poster on Using Isometric Hand Grip Strength Prior to Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant to Predict Patient Outcomes.