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“Dr. Widerstrom-Noga exceeds all criteria for FASIA selection; scholarship, mentorship, organizational dedication, professional service, and altruistic dedication to the lives and wellbeing of people living with disabilities.”
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Eva Widerstrom-Noga, DDS, PhD has been announced as a recipient of the 2023 Fellow of ASIA (FASIA) Award. Fellowship in the American Spinal Injury Association is an honor bestowed by the Board of Directors in recognition of longstanding dedication to, and distinguished accomplishments within, the fields of spinal cord injury research, clinical practice, education, and/or advocacy and for longstanding active membership in and service to ASIA.
Dr. Widerstrom-Noga, DDS, PhD, is a Professor of Neurological Surgery, Rehabilitation Medicine, and the principal investigator of the Clinical Pain Research Laboratory of The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis. Her work primarily concerns the extremely complex problem of persistent neuropathic pain after neurotrauma. Dr. Widerstrom-Noga’s educational background is in cross-disciplinary pain research (pain physiology and pain psychology) and in the clinical management of chronic pain.Dr. Widerstrom-Noga has performed human pain research for three decades and in the field of spinal cord injury (SCI) for over 25 years. Her interests are influenced by her clinical background and interest in elucidating the underlying mechanisms of human pain and the cognitions and behaviors that determine the impact of pain. Dr. Widerstrom-Noga has used highly innovative methods including magnetic resonance spectroscopy to elucidate brain mechanisms and adapted outcome measures used in other chronic pain populations to people with SCI. She has also been instrumental in developing, presenting, and promoting the International SCI Pain Data Sets and the NINDS CDEs for SCI and Pain. She serves as the Chair or as a member in both National and International efforts to standardize pain outcome measures and pain classification, and clinical guidelines related to pain management.
Dr. Widerstrom-Noga has also collaborated in highly innovative clinical research studies that include deep brain stimulation for intractable neuropathic pain in SCI and movement disorders in Parkinson’s disease, and cellular transplantation for subacute and chronic spinal cord injury.
Dr. Widerstrom-Noga has a consistent history of funding from multiple federal and key foundation sponsors as PI and collaborator, and service on research and grant panels. She has been an active member of ASIA for two decades and served as the ASIA Awards Committee Chair from 2018 until the past annual conference.
2023 FASIA award recipients will be honored on April 17 during the 50th ASIA Annual Scientific Meeting in Atlanta.
