For the fifth year, the American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) presented The Apple Award for excellence in publishing in the spinal cord injury rehabilitation literature. This award is named in honor of David F. Apple, Jr, MD, founding member and past-president of ASIA. The award is a collaboration of three entities that have been critically important to Dr. Apple during his long career in orthopaedic surgery: Shepherd Center in Atlanta, Georgia, where he served as founding medical director for 30 years; the journal Topics in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation, of which Dr. Apple was the Founding Editor and served as Editor for 17 years; and ASIA.
The 2011 recipient of The Apple Award was Christopher D. Pritchard, PhD, of the Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
Dr. Pritchard is lead author of the article entitled, “Establishing a model spinal cord injury in the African green monkey for the preclinical evaluation of biodegradable polymer scaffolds seeded with human neural stem cells.” The article was published in 2010 in the Journal of Neuroscience Methods (vol. 188, pp. 258-269). Co-authors are Jonathan R. Slotkin, Dou Yu, Haining Dai, Matthew S. Lawrence, Roderick T. Bronson, Francis M. Reynolds, Yang D. Teng, Eric J. Woodard, and Robert S. Langer.
Dr. Pritchard received The Apple Award from its namesake on June 8, 2011, during the ASIA Annual Scientific Meeting in Washington, DC. The award consists of a check for $2,000, a commissioned and engraved crystal apple sculpture, and an invitation to keynote the 2011 Research Day at Shepherd Center.
Previous recipients of The Apple Award:
2007
M.J. Mulcahey, PhD, OTR/L, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2008
Christopher Patrick Smith, MD, Houston, Texas
2009
James S. Krause, PhD, Charleston, South Carolina
2010
Anthony DiMarco, MD, Cleveland, Ohio
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