NIDRR Grantees and Staff Receive Recognition

The NCDDR congratulates each of the following NIDRR grantees and staff members. All grantees are encouraged to contact the NCDDR with information to share in future issues of The Research Exchange.

Rachel Wobschall, Executive Director of Minnesota's System of Technology to Achieve Results (STAR) Program, the State Technology Assistance program, was honored by the California State University at Northridge (CSUN) Center on Disabilities. She was named to receive the Strache Leadership Award during the Twelfth Annual Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference held in Los Angeles in March, 1997. The Strache Leadership Award, given annually to those who have directly impacted the lives of people with disabilities through assistive technology, is the highest honor the CSUN can bestow. For more information, contact Ms. Wobschall at (651) 297-1554.

In June, 1998, the STAR Program's Urban Outreach Project, in partnership with the Urban Leagues of Minneapolis-St. Paul, was awarded a Best Practice Award by the Health Care Financing Administration at their conference in Phoenix. Minnesota STAR was recognized for information and awareness activities regarding assistive technology, reaching over 10,000 individuals in underserved communities. For additional information, contact Tom Shaffer at (651) 296-9718 or e-mail: tom.shaffer@state.mn.us

Several staff members of the University of Washington Burn Injury Rehabilitation Model System at the University of Washington Burn Center have received honors.

• Jason N. Doctor (with co-authors David Patterson, Ph.D. and Roberta Mann, MD) was awarded the American Burn Association's 1997 Clinical Research Award for his presentation entitled "Health Outcome for Burn Survivors." This award went to the best paper presented by a non-medical doctor at the 1997 American Burn Association Annual Meeting. The paper discussed health outcomes of burn survivors at one month and one year follow-up periods, and was published in the Journal of Burn Care and Rehabilitation, 18(6), November/December 1997.
• Kim Calman Holt, a founding member of the NIDRR Advisory Group at the University of Washington Burn Injury Rehabilitation Model System, was chosen as one of six individuals from the Inland Northwest to be honored at "Stars: A Celebration Of Heroes" at the Spokane Arena in Spokane, WA. The award focused on Ms. Calman Holt's dedication and strong commitment as a volunteer at the University of Washington Burn Center and at the Hope House orphanage for children with autism, physical disabilities, and emotional disturbances. She also was cited for her outstanding contributions by helping the community through the school re-entry program and rural outreach, as well as assisting burn survivors and their families. U.S. Army Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf was on hand for the presentation of the award.
• David Patterson, Ph.D., Co-Principal Investigator received The Milton Erickson Award for Scientific Achievement in Hypnosis at the 1997 International Society for Hypnosis and American Society of Clinical Hypnosis Annual Meeting. The paper for which he and co-authors Dawn Ehde, Ph.D. and Myron Goldberg, Ph.D. were honored focused on decreasing burn pain through hypnosis and was published in the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis.

For more information, contact Dolores Palacpac, Project Coordinator of the University of Washington Burn Injury Rehabilitation Model System, at (206) 731-2866 or via e-mail: palacpac@u.washington.edu

Dr. Kristofer Hagglund, Principal Investigator of the Missouri Model Spinal Cord Injury System and Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at the University of Missouri-Columbia, was honored by the Division of Rehabilitation Psychology of the American Psychological Association (APA). Dr. Hagglund was selected to receive the James S. Garrett Early Career Achievement Award at the APA's annual meeting in Chicago in August, 1997. This award was based on his career achievements to date, many of which are derived from his NIDRR-funded work. For additional information, please contact Dr. Hagglund at (573) 882-6271 or by e-mail: hagglundk@health.missouri.edu

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