NIDRR Staff and Grantee 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.

Mary Hibbard, Ph.D., Director of Research at the RTC on Community Integration of Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury, Mt. Sinai Medical Center, was awarded the Congressman Ted Weiss Consumer Advocacy Award by the Brain Injury Association of New York State at their annual meeting in June, 1999. Dr. Hibbard received the award for overall excellence in TBI rehabilitation. The award commemorates the late Congressman Ted Weiss who exposed corruption in the TBI rehabilitation industry during the 1980s and early 1990s. For more information contact Dr. Wayne Gordon, Director of the RTC, at (212) 659-9372.

Staff members of the Research and Training Center on Rural Rehabilitation Services (RTC: Rural) at the University of Montana have been recognized with special awards and honors:

• Dr. Tom Seekins, Director, has been elected President of the American Association on Health and Disability for 1999-2000. This organization is dedicated to the support, study and encouragement of efforts to prevent primary and secondary disabling conditions, and to promote the health of people with disabilities.
• LaDonna Fowler, Director of the American Indian Choices: Culture and Context Project has been appointed Chairperson of the Subcommittee on Disability Issues of the National Congress of American Indians (1999-2000).
• Alexandra Enders, OTR, Research Associate, has been elected President of RESNA, the international organization of professionals in the field of assistive technology for 1999-2001.
• Nancy Arnold, Ph.D., Research Director, has been elected President of the Montana Association for Rehabilitation for 1999-2000.

For further information contact Diana Spas, Information Specialist at the RTC on Rural Rehabilitation Services, at (888) 268-2743.

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