NIDDR Grantees Receive Recognition

The NCDDR would like to congratulate each of the following grantees for the recognition of their efforts. For each item, we have identified the NIDRR-funded project name; the award, citation, or recognition; and the name of the Principal Investigator or contact for further information, with telephone number and e-mail addresses. All NIDRR grantees are encouraged to contact the NCDDR with information to share in future issues of The Research Exchange.

Michelle Averbuch and Jim Hibler, Physical Therapists with the RRTC on Enhancing Quality of Life of Stroke Survivors of the Rehabilitation Institute Research Corporation/Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago were recently honored. They won the Sarah Basquin Award in June, 1996, in the Allied Health Group area of a Northwest University medical competition. Mr. and Mrs. Sol Rosen, parents of Sarah Basquin, a former patient at the center, donated the funds for the award in her memory. The winning paper, "Effects of Aerobic Conditioning on Young Persons Post-Stroke," is being published. Please contact Linda Lovell, Project Coordinator, at 312-908-6197 for additional information.

Dr. Laura Blankertz, Director of Research of the RRTC on Vocational Rehabilitation and Mental Illness,Matrix Research Institute, received the Armin Loeb Award in June, 1996. The award, named after an early psychosocial researcher, is given annually by the International Association of Psychosocial Rehabilitation Services to a researcher who has made outstanding contributions to the field and to the development of its research capacity. Dr. Blankertz has been instrumental in developing a set of outcome measures, the Toolkit for Measuring Psychosocial Rehabilitation Outcomes, that can be used by all psychosocial providers to report on program effectiveness and to structure research efforts. For information about the availability of the Toolkit, contact the IAPRS at 410-730-7190. Dr. Blankertz can be reached at 215-438-8200 or by e-mail: blankertz@aol.com

Dr. Diana D. Cardenas, Project Director of the Northwest Regional Spinal Cord Injury System, University of Washington, has been appointed to a three-year term on the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Initial Review Group's new Medical Rehabilitation Research Subcommittee. The committee will advise the directors of the National Institutes of Health and the NICHD on rehabilitation-related research, and will review applications for awards and grants relating to research and research training in rehabilitation medicine. Dr. Cardenas also received the New Jersey Medical School's 1996 National Teaching Award in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and was named to the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Assessing Rehabilitation Science and Engineering, which advises the Federal government on public health policy matters. For more information contact Dr. Cardenas at 206-543-8171 or e-mail: dianamac@u.washington.edu

Dr. Catherine A. Marshall, Director of Research for the American Indian Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (AIRRTC) at Northern Arizona University, has been selected for a Fulbright Scholar award beginning in January 1997. Administered by the U. S. Information Agency, the principal purpose of the Fulbright program is to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries through educational and cultural exchanges. Dr. Marshall will continue her work in Oaxaca, Mexico which has been sponsored for three years by the U. S. Department of Education as supplemental funding to the AIRRTC. Over a nine month period, she will research the effectiveness of consumer participation in conducting community-based rehabilitation research and will teach an interdisciplinary graduate course on world views of disability. For further information, contact the AIRRTC Project Director, Dr. Priscilla Sanderson, at 520-523-4791. Dr. Marshall's e-mail through September, 1997: marshall@antequera.com

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