Award Description: The award is given to acknowledge world-class rehabilitation research conducted by a female scientist in the rehabilitation research field of Multiple Sclerosis, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Parkinson’s, dementia, Alzheimer’s disease or related neurodegenerative disease.

 

Current Winner: Linsday Bright,OTD, OTR/L

 

Requirements

• Candidates have made significant contributions to stroke rehabilitation research during their early career work.
• Candidate must be a current member of ACRM.
• Candidate must attend the current year’s ACRM annual conference.
• The candidate does not need to be the senior author on all papers submitted as part of the application process but must be the senior author on at least one of the papers submitted.
• Members may self-nominate.

 

How to submit

Please submit nomination statement, publications and CV as one pdf via email to Stroke ISIG Chair Elena Donoso Brown due March 1

 

Past Winners

2024: Lindsay Bright, OTD, OTR/L

2023: Emily Kringle

2022: Sutanuka Bhattacharjya

2021: Candice Osborne

2020: Rachel Proffitt

2019: Suzanne Burns

2018: Kimberly P. Hreha

2017: John Ross Rizzo

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Nominations must include:

• A statement of approximately 500 words in length outlining the nominee’s research accomplishments in rehabilitation.
• Three letters of support written by ACRM members and submitted through the ENDORSEMENT FORM.
• Three peer-reviewed publications. Manuscripts accepted, but not yet published, are acceptable as well as those already in print.
• A CV for the nominee.

Demonstration of service to ACRM, although not a required criteria, will be considered in review of the application. As such, it is advantageous to discuss any such service in one’s nomination statement.

Award Description: ACRM is dedicated to advancing post-acute care, advocacy, and scientific efforts for survivors of stroke and their families. This award recognizes a clinician or researcher (individual or group) (e.g., a care team, a research team, a clinical group) who has advanced the field through their scientific and/or clinical efforts in the area of post-acute stroke. The Awards Committee is especially interested in nominees whose work has directly affected clinical care and/or who have successfully translated research or pre-clinical models to successful clinical application. Representatives from the ACRM Stroke ISIG Executive Committee may nominate worthy candidates for this award.

Current Winner: Lode Sabbe

 

Criteria

• Nominee(s) are NOT required to be a current ACRM member.
• Nominee(s) must be actively engaged in ongoing research, service, and/or care in clinical stroke (i.e., patient-based).
• Nominees have made significant contributions in one or more areas of clinical care through scientific and/or patient care efforts.
• Nominations can only be made by the ACRM Stroke ISIG Executive Committee. Self-nomination is not permitted.

 

Past Winners

2024: Dawn Aycok, PhD, RN, ANP-BC, FAHA, FPCNA, FAAN

2023: Katharina Stibrant Sunnerhagen, MD, PhD

2022: Nick Ward, MD, FCRP

2021: Candice Osborne, PhD, MPH, OTR

2020: Michelle L. Woodbury, PhD, OTR/L

2019: Steven Cramer, MD

2018: Robert Teasell, MD, FRCP (C)

2017: Leora R. Cherney, PhD, BC-ANCDS, CCC-SLP

2016: Pamela Duncan, PhD, PT, FAPTA, FAHA

2015: John Chae, MD

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The Award

• The award recipient will make a presentation of their work during the ACRM Annual Conference. The presentation topic is of the award recipient’s choice, but should be related to the work for which the awardee is being recognized.
• Award plaque