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ORGANIZATION NEWS—ACRM
Director of RehabilitationResearch and Developmentfor VA to be KeynoteSpeaker at Annual Meeting
Mindy Lipson Aisen, MD, director ofRehabilitation Research and Developmentfor the Department of Veterans Affairs,will deliver the keynote address at the 77thannual meeting of the American Congressof Rehabilitation Medicine on October20th in Hilton Head, South Carolina.
Dr. Aisen received her medical degreefrom Columbia University College of Phy-sicians and Surgeons. She completed herundergraduate work in mechanical engi-neering at the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology. Prior to her assignment withthe VA, she was associate professor ofclinical neurology at Cornell UniversityMedical College and director of the SpinalCord Injury Service at The Burke Reha-bilitation Center, in White Plains, NewYork. Dr. Aisen is certified in neurologyand neurorehabilitation.
She is the author or coauthor of numer-ous journal articles on subjects dealingwith multiple sclerosis and brain and spi-nal cord injury among others. She has alsocoauthored more than a dozen books orchapters in addition to her numerous ab-stracts and presentations. A recent studyinvolved robot-aided neurorehabilitation.
Currently, Dr. Aisen is president of theAmerican Society of Neurorehabilitationand a member of the Grant Review Panelfor the National Multiple Sclerosis Soci-ety.
The closing plenary speaker will be EdBrandt Jr, MD, PhD. Dr. Brandt is theformer Assistant Secretary of Health andlead author of the Institute of Medicine’sEnabling America.
Fellows of the National Institute on Dis-ability and Rehabilitation Research willalso be presenting information on theirresearch. They are as follows:
● Gary Bedell, PhD, OT (Boston Uni-versity): “Measuring Change in Ac-tivity Performance and ParticipationReadiness at Discharge for Childrenwith Brain Injury.”
● Trudy Mallinson, PhD, OTR/L,NXROT (Northwestern University):“Comparing the Impact of SubacuteCare and Rehabilitation on FunctionalStatus in Stroke Survivors.”
● Taylor J. Marcell, MD (University ofTexas Medical Branch in Galveston):“Muscle Function Following SpinalCord Injury: Basic Genetic and Phys-iologic Mechanisms.”
● Margrit R. Meier, PhD, CPO (current-ly with the Rehabilitation Institute ofChicago): “Alignment of TranstibialProsthesis: A Step Closer Toward the‘Optimal’ Alignment.”
● Stephen J. Page, PhD (Kessler Medi-cal Rehabilitation Research and Edu-cation Corp): “Modified Constraint-Induced Therapy: A ClinicallyPractical Alternative.”
Licht Award WinnersAnnounced for 2000
The editorial board of the Archives ofPhysical Medicine and Rehabilitation hasselected “Functional outcome in childrenwith multiple trauma without significanthead injury,” by Mary Aitken, KennethJaffe, Carla DiScala, and Frederick Ri-vara, as the 2000 Licht Award winner.This article was published in the August1999 issue of Archives.
Established in 1979, the Licht Awardhonors a former American Congress ofRehabilitation Medicine president, SidneyLicht, and his wife, Elizabeth Licht. Mr.Licht was the editor and Mrs. Licht wasthe publisher of the widely recognizedPhysical Medicine Library. The ACRMBoard of Governors directed that thisaward be given to the authors whose pa-pers are of “potential significance and[present] empirical and theoretical contri-butions to rehabilitation medicine.” Since1980, the Sidney and Elizabeth LichtAward for Excellence in Scientific Writinghas been presented annually to the authorsof the scientific article judged by the edi-torial board of Archives to be the mostoutstanding article published in the journalin the previous year.
The winners will be recognized for theircontribution during the Presidential Ad-dress on October 20th at the ACRM an-nual meeting.
On-Site and 1-DayRegistration Available forAnnual Meeting
Though the conference date is October19-22, it is never too late to attend theACRM annual meeting with on-site regis-tration available to both members and non-members. The member cost is $480; fornonmembers, $600. One-day registrationis $300 for members and $400 for non-members. For complete information on themeeting, log on to the ACRM web site atwww.acrm.org. Check with the ACRM
national office before sending in a regis-tration form to make certain that it will bereceived in time.
NICHD and ACRM AwardFellowship in MedicalRehabilitation
The National Institute of Child Healthand Human Development (NICHD) andNational Center for Medical Rehabilita-tion Research, in conjunction with theAmerican Congress of RehabilitationMedicine (ACRM), have selected Carol A.Sheredos, MA, PT, as the recipient of apolicy fellowship to support research de-signed to enhance the quality of life forpeople with disabilities.
Ms. Sheredos is the founder and presi-dent of CAS Resources, which providesconsulting on rehabilitation in skillednursing facilities, aging and disability, theAmericans with Disabilities Act, staff per-formance management, medical billing,CPT coding, and continuing educationcourse development for rehabilitation ther-apists. Prior to this endeavor, she served asregional director of therapy services forTheracor Rehabilitation Services. Shelives in Towson, Maryland.
Medical rehabilitation research con-cerns the scientific acquisition of knowl-edge about potential or existing interven-tions that have the goal of maximizing thehealth-related functioning of people withconditions associated with disabilities. Ba-sic and clinical studies on issues, rangingfrom pathophysiology through impair-ment, functional limitation, disability andsocietal impact of disability, are relevantto the missions of the NCMRR and theACRM. Ms. Sheredos plans to do researchon aging with a disability.
What is the AmericanCongress of RehabilitationMedicine?
The American Congress of Rehabilita-tion Medicine (ACRM) serves people withdisabling conditions by promoting rehabil-itation research and facilitating dissemina-tion of information and the transfer oftechnology.
The primary focus of the ACRM is topromote a paradigm of rehabilitation re-search that connects pathology, impair-ment, functional limitations, disability,and the rehabilitation client’s physical, so-cial, educational, vocational, and spiritualenvironment.
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