2024 Vogel Award Recipient Announced
Congratulations James A.G. Crispo MSc., recipient of the 2024 Vogel Award. Dr. Crispo received the award for his paper “Nationwide Emergency Department Visits for Pediatric Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury in the United States, 2016–2020.”
The 2024 Vogel award was presented during the Annual Scientific Meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The Vogel Award is given annually for the best paper by a clinician or researcher involved in Pediatric SCI Rehabilitation in the preceding calendar year. The award honors Lawrence C. Vogel, MD, a recognized world expert on SCI in children. For the past 30 years, Dr. Vogel served as Medical Director of the SCI Program at Shriners Hospitals for Children in Chicago. He is also a past president of ASIA.
Dr. James Crispo is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of British Columbia. He holds academic appointments as stipendiary faculty in the Human Sciences Division at NOSM University and as an Adjunct Scientist in the Mental Health and Addictions Research Program at ICES. James also serves as the Principal Health Scientist at TruEffect Inc., a Canadian company that specializes in providing professional services in the areas of public and population health, epidemiology, and health risk assessment.
Dr. Crispo completed a PhD in Population Health at the University of Ottawa, as well as postdoctoral training in the Department of Neurology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to completing his PhD, James worked at Health Canada in the areas of chemical emergency preparedness and response, and environmental health risk assessment.
James Crispo is the recipient of many distinguished awards, including a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Doctoral Research Award, a prestigious Fulbright Canada Student Award to the United States, and a Research Trainee Award from Michael Smith Health Research BC. His current research focuses on using administrative claims data to examine health service utilization and outcomes among pediatric populations with spinal cord injury. He is also interested in how electronic health information may be leveraged to improve access to primary care and clinical decision making.
Past Vogel Award Recipients
