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Charles Tator, MD, PhD Will Receive the 2011 ASIA Lifetime Achievement Award

ASIA is pleased to announce that the 2011 ASIA Lifetime Achievement Award is Charles H. Tator, MD, PhD, of Toronto. Dr. Tator will receive the award at the 2011 Annual Scientific Meeting in Washington, D.C., on Monday, June 6th.

Dr Charles H. Tator graduated from the faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto and trained there in research and neuropathology. He then completed the Neurosurgery resident training program. In 1989, he became Chair of Neurosurgery at the University of Toronto and Chief of Neurosurgery at the Toronto Western Hospital, and University Health Network. In 1992 he founded ThinkFirst, Canada, a national brain and spinal cord injury foundation. He has published 321 papers in peer reviewed journals and 85 book chapters, most in the field of brain and spinal cord injury. He developed the first acute spinal cord injury unit in Canada in 1974 at Sunnybrook Medical Centre. Currently, he is focused on the use of stem cells for regeneration of the spinal cord after trauma, ischemic or demyelinating disease. He is a member of the Order of Canada, and an inductee into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. He is currently Senior Scientist in the Toronto Western Research Institute and a Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Toronto. He is the Director of the Canadian Paraplegic Association Spinal Cord Injury Research Laboratory in the Krembil Neuroscience Centre at the Toronto Western Hospital.

Dr. Tator has been a contributing member of ASIA for over three decades.

Gerben DeJong, PhD, FACRM Will Present the 2011 G. Heiner Sell Memorial Lectureship

Gerben DeJong, PhD, FACRM is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Post-acute Innovation and Research at the National Rehabilitation Hospital (NRH) in Washington, DC. He has been associated with NRH for most of the last 20 years, as Director of Research (1985-2001), Director of the RTC on Managed Care and Disability (1997-2002), and Director of the RTC on Medical Rehabilitation and Health Policy (1993-1997). He is the author or co-author of 250 papers on health policy, income maintenance, disability policy, post-acute rehabilitation, and health outcomes. He was President of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine in 2006-2007, and has been the recipient of numerous professional accolades. He was a Fulbright Scholar in the Netherlands in 1984, and received in PhD in public policy studies from Brandeis University in 1980.

The 2011 Sell Lectureship will be presented on Monday morning, June 6th, as part of the opening session of the ASIA Annual Scientific Meeting. G. Heiner Sell, MD, was president-elect of ASIA at the time of his death in 1981. The lectureship was established in his memory, and has been given annually since 1982.

2012 ASIA Meeting

38th Annual Scientific Meeting
Hyatt Regency Denver Convention Center
Denver, Colorado
Pre-Course, Wednesday, April 18, 2012
ASIA Meeting, Thursday-Saturday, April 19-21, 2012

2013 ASIA Meeting

In 2013, ASIA will celebrate the 40th Anniversary of its founding in 1973. The association began in Chicago, and will return to this great city to commemorate its important historical milestone. Dates and the host hotel for the meeting will be determined in the near future. Check back in the coming months for specifics.