2024 AAP Award Winners
Distinguished Member Award
Margaret Turk, MD, SUNY Upstate Medical University
Distinguished Academician Award
Adam Stein, MD; Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra Northwell
Early Career Academician Award
Felicia Skelton, MD, MS, Baylor College of Medicine
Mclean Outstanding Resident/Fellow Award
Steven Jow, MD, MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital and Georgetown University School of Medicine
Innovation & Impact In Education Award
Vu Nguyen, MD, MBA, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Outstanding Student Interest Group Award
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine
Student Chair: Angela Ballesteros
Faculty Advisor: Dr. John Norbury
American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (AJPM&R) Awards
Excellence In Research Writing Award
Lauren Fisher, PhD, Joshua Curtiss, PhD, Daniel Klyce, PhD, Paul Perrin, PhD, Shannon Juengst, PhD, Kelli Gary, PhD, Janet Niemeier, PhD, Flora Hammond, MD, Thomas Bergquist, PhD, Amy Wagner, MD, Amanda Rabinowitz, PhD, Joseph Giacino, PhD, and Ross Zafonte, DO
“Using Machine Learning to Examine Suicidal Ideation After Traumatic Brain Injury: A Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems National Database Study”
Excellence In Research Writing Award
Yong-Hao Pua, PhD, Cheryl Lian-Li Poon, MS, Felicia Jie-Ting Seah, MS, John Wei-Ming Tan, MS, Ee-Lin Woon, BS, Hwei-Chi Chong, BS, Julian Thumboo, MD, Ross Allan Clark, PhD, and Seng-Jin Yeo, MBBS, FRCS(Orth), FAMS
“Clinical Interpretability of Quadriceps Strength and Gait Speed Performance in Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Longitudinal Study”
Ernest W. Johnson Excellence in Research Writing In-Training Award
Srijan Raha, Silas Yip, Chester Ho, MD, Olaleye Olayinka, PhD, Ingris Peláez-Ballestas, PhD, Ana Rame-Montiel, MSc, Rob MacIsaac, SW, Rita Henderson, PhD, Katharina Kovacs Burns, PhD, Jeffrey Bakal, PhD, Rebecca Charbonneau, MD, Rija Kamran, PT, and Adalberto Loyola-Sanchez, MD, MSc, PhD
“Novel Application of the World Health Organization Community-Based Rehabilitation Matrix to Understand Services’ Contributions to Community Participation for Persons with Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury: A Mixed-Methods Study”
William Rush Dunton, Jr, Md Award (Top Reviewer)
Samuel Bierner, MD, University of Nebraska Medical Center
Best Paper Awards
Faculty
Paul Winston, MD, Vancouver Island Health Authority; The University of British Columbia
“Efficacy of Percutaneous Cryoneurolysis for Wrist or Hand/Finger Spasticity”
Fellow
Wolfgang Grosek, MSc, Yale School of Medicine
“Digitalization of Measuring Physical Performance”
Resident
Vishal Bansal, MD, UTHealth Houston
“Rehabilitation Outcomes of Bilateral Lung Transplant Patients Due To Covid-19”
Medical Student
Kaitlin Ballenger, BA, University of Maryland School of Medicine
“Muscle Echogenicity and Pressure-Pain Thresholds in Individuals with Severe Muscle Stiffness after Cerebral Injury”
2024 AAP Program for Academic Leadership (PAL) Graduates
- Idris Amin, MD, University of Maryland Medical System
- Sharon David, MD, Mayo Clinic
- Donna Huang MD, Michael E. DeBakey VA/Baylor College of Medicine
- Sheryl Katta-Charles, MD, Indiana University School of Medicine
- Bradford Landry DO, Northwell Health
- Samuel Lee, MD, Loma Linda University
- Adam Lewno, DO, University of Michigan
- Roger Luo, MD, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School/Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation
- Marina Ma, MD, Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children’s Hospital
- Shawn Peterson, DO, Thomas Jefferson University
- Mary Russell, DO, MS, University of Texas
- Jeremy Stanek, MD, MM, BM, Stanford University