Congratulations to the 2019 Fellows of the American Spinal Injury Association who were announced and honored during the SCI Summit, April 5, 2019 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Fellowship in the American Spinal Injury Association (FASIA) is bestowed by the Board of Directors in recognition of distinguished accomplishments within the fields of spinal cord injury research, clinical practice, education and advocacy, and for a longstanding active membership of service to the society. Read more here.
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The 2019 Vogel Award Recipient is Dr. Peter New for a paper “A narrative review of paediatric non-traumatic spinal cord dysfunction.” The Vogel Award is given for the best paper by a clinician or researcher involved in pediatric SCI rehabilitation in the preceding calendar year. Read more about Dr. Peter New and the Vogel award 
Morgan Callahan, MD and Rachel Cowan, PhD are recipients of ASIA’s 2019 Apple Award. Their paper titled “Relationship of Fitness and Wheelchair Mobility With Encounters, Avoidances, and Perception of Environmental Barriers Among Manual Wheelchair Users With Spinal Cord Injury” appears in Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in October, 2018. The Apple Award for excellence in publishing in spinal cord injury rehabilitation literature is presented annually during the ASIA annual scientific meeting in recognition of the best published paper by a clinician or researcher in the preceding calendar year
