Neurology Section Awards 2010
Service to the Section
Purpose: To acknowledge and honor a member of the Neurology Section whose contributions to the Section have been of exceptional value.
Recipient: Dorian Rose, PT, PhD
Any Neurology Section member who has attended CSM in the past 15 years has benefited from the efforts of Dorian Rose. Perhaps you saw her as she scooted from room to room making sure everything was running smoothly, or she may have helped you with the on-site preparations for you talk, or perhaps you simply attended and were awed by the great speakers and awesome programming. Serving as a member of the Program Committee since 1994, and then as Chair of the committee since 2005, Dorian has left her mark on all of us. Dorian has dedicated her heart and soul to the section, as demonstrated by spent countless hours she has spent in service to the section. During this time she has also assisted section members in less visible ways, including as a reviewer for JNPT, a member of the III Step Dissemination Task Force, and a member of the nominating committee from 1997 – 2000. With her charming sense of humor and inimitable style Dorian Rose has given outstanding service to the Section, and this award is but a small gesture of our great appreciation.
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Clinical Excellence
Purpose: To acknowledge and honor a member of the Neurology Section whose major professional involvement is currently with the practice of neurologic physical therapy.
Recipient: kathie klerk, PT, Phd
Kathie is an internationally recognized expert in the physical therapy for individuals with spinal cord injury. As the Chief of the Spinal Cord Injury Unit at Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital for over 20 years (since 1977), countless individuals with spinal cord injury and their family members have benefitted from Kathie’s experience. Throughout these years, Kathie has also mentored innumerable others to disseminate her clinical expertise, as one of the nominators noted “in clinical practice one sometimes encounters questions for which there is no answer in a textbook or article, questions that can only be answered by someone with the broad knowledge base that comes from a long history of dedicated clinical experience, someone like Kathie Klerk.” Her clear thinking, insightfulness, and creativity in addressing clinical issues is an inspiration to others.
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Clinical Excellence in Education
Recipient: beth fisher, PT, PhD, NCS
Beth has been instrumental in guiding many future physical therapists and Neurologic Clinical Specialists (NCSs) in developing their skills in neurologic physical therapy. With over 20 years of experience treating individuals with neurological disorders at Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center and teaching clinical management of these disorders at USC, Beth’s influence has been long and far reaching. She has lectured and taught many courses nation-wide in the treatment of the neuromotor disorders, and has presented numerous times at scientific meetings on the local, national, and international level. As exemplified by the numerous students that contributed to her nomination, Beth has earned the respect and admiration of entry-level and post-professional students. Many of her previous students raved that she was the best teacher they ever had. She was instrumental in starting the Neurologic Physical Therapy Residency program at the University of Southern California and in getting the program credentialed by the APTA, only the second such program to earn that status and the first within a university.
The Awards for Clinical Excellence in Education was awarded for the first time in 2009.
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Excellence in Research
Purpose: To acknowledge and honor a member of the Neurology Section who has demonstrated continuing excellence in research related to neurologic physical therapy science, theory, practice, or education.
In 2010, no award was given for Excellence in Research.
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Barnes-Leahy PODS I Scholarship
Purpose: An award for post-professional studies in neurology given in memory of Neurology Section members and accomplished physical therapists Marylou Barnes, PT, FAPTA and Patricia Leahy, PT.
Virginia Little, PT, MS, NCS University of Florida
"Neuromechanical Factors Contributing to Motor Recovery Following Stroke"
Golden Synapse Award
Purpose: The award recognizes the most outstanding article published in JNPT each year.
The decision is made by the JNPT Reviewers and Associate Editors and is based on the article’s conceptualization, execution, presentation and contribution to physical therapy practice.
Lee Dibble, PT, PhD, ATC, Odessa Addison, PT, DPT, and Evan Papa, MS
for one of the 1st systematic reviews published in JNPT: “The Effects of Exercise on Balance in Persons with Parkinson’s Disease: A Systematic Review across the Disablement Spectrum”. The authors were recognized and award plaques at the Neurology Section 2010 Business Meeting in San Diego, CA.
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Student Awards
Each year the Neurology Section Research Committee recognizes outstanding abstracts submitted for the Combined Sections Meeting by students at the post-professional and professional levels.
2010 Student Research Awards
Post-Professional Student
Shilpa Patil, PT, NCS, University of Florida
Presentation: Unilateral Paretic Limb Power Training Produces Bilateral Locomotor Effects Post-Stroke. Shilpa Patil, Ilse Jonkers, and Carolynn Patten
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Professional Students
Marissa Schaeuble, MS, ATC and Joy Resetar, BA, University of Indianapolis
Presentation: Gait Characteristics in Persons with Chronic Stroke Classified as Limited and Full Community Ambulators. Marissa Schaeuble, Joy Resatar, Michelle Dumit, Jeannie Hartley, Kendall Schultz, Peter Rundquist, and Margaret Finley.
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