2025 AAP Award Winners
Distinguished Academician Award
Timothy Dillingham, MD, MS; University of Pennsylvania
Early Career Academician Award
Berdale Colorado, DO, MPH; University of Alabama at Birmingham
Shanti Pinto, MD, University of Texas Southwestern
Mclean Outstanding Resident/Fellow Award
Kuntal Chowdhary, MD; New York Presbyterian
Innovation & Impact In Education Award
Daniel Herman, MD, PhD; UC Davis
Outstanding Mentor Award
Pam Hansen, MD; University of Utah
AAP Outstanding Service Award
Ravi Kasi, MD; Rush University Medical Center & Mark Volker, MD; University of Minnesota
Outstanding Student Interest Group Award
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Student Chair: Rachel Siegel
Faculty Advisor: Stephanie Rand, DO
American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (AJPM&R) Awards
Excellence In Research Writing Award
Antonella LoMauro, PhD, Fabrizio Gervasoni, MD, Vincenzo Ricci, MD, Gregorio Salce, MD, Arnaldo Andreoli, MD, Leonardo Pantoni, MD, and Levent Özçakar, MD
“Sarcopenia and Multisensory Integration Deficit in Post-COVID Syndrome Patients: The Clinical, Ultrasound and Robotic Evaluation Protocol in a Cross-sectional Study”
Ernest W. Johnson Excellence in Research Writing In-Training Award
Dorothy He, BS, William A. Sikora, BS, Shirley A. James, DT, PhD, Jordan N. Williamson, MS, Louis V. Lepak, DT, Carolyn F. Cheema, PT, DSc, Evgeny Sidorov, MD, PhD, Sheng Li, MD, PhD, and Yuan Yang, PhD
“Alteration in Resting-State Brain Activity in Stroke Survivors After Repetitive Finger Stimulation”
William Rush Dunton, Jr, Md Award (Top Reviewer)
Kevin Hakimi, MD, University of Washington/VA Puget Sound Healthcare System
Best Paper & Poster Awards
Scientific Paper First Place
Benjamin Petrie, MD, Northwestern/Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
“Gamified Electromyographic Biofeedback for People With Tetraplegia Produces Enjoyable and High-Dosage Therapy: A Pilot Study”
Scientific Paper Second Place
Gerard Limerick, MD, PhD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
“Peripherally restricted cannabinoid and mu-opioid receptor agonists synergistically attenuate neuropathic mechanical hypersensitivity in mice”
Scientific Paper Honorable Mentions
Yelyzaveta Merenzon, BA, Medical College of Wisconsin
“Joint Off-Loading Therapies for Knee Osteoarthritis: A Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial”
Kimberly Rosenthal, MD, Eastern Virginia Medical Center
“IGF-1 as a Biomarker for Symptom Severity in Adult Traumatic Brain Injury: Evidence from an Observational Study”
Research Study Posters Honorable Mentions
Casey Salandra, DO, UT Southwestern
“Parental leave policies- improving physical medicine and rehabilitation residents’ access and perception”
Nirmal Maxwell, DO, MetroHealth
“Using Ultrasound to Improve Wrist Palpation Skills of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Residents: A Pilot Educational Study”
Case Report Posters Honorable Mentions
Isabel Nip, MD, MS, University of Connecticut,
“Refractory Post-Op Saphenous Neuritis Treated with Alcohol Neurolysis in Chronic Knee Pain Status-Post Right Knee Tibial Tubercle Osteotomy and Medial Patellofemoral Ligament (MPFL) Reconstruction: A Case Report”
Polly Creveling, MD, University of North Carolina
“Adjacent Spindle and Stump Neuroma: A Case Report”
2024 AAP Program for Academic Leadership (PAL) Graduates
- Matthew Adamkin, MD; University of Louisville
- Jaclyn Barcikowski, DO, MA; MossRehab
- Akin Beckley, MD, MBA; Columbia University Irving Medical Center/NYP
- Mohammed Emam, MD; Johns Hopkins University
- Kevin Franzese, DO; University of Pittsburgh
- Erik Hoyer, MD; Johns Hopkins University
- Prathap Jayaram, MD; Emory University
- Mariam Keramati, DO; Sinai Hospital of Baltimore
- Heather Ma, MD, MS; University of Rochester Medical Center
- Clausyl (CJ) Plummer II, MD; Vanderbilt Medical Center
- Michelle Poliak-Tunis, MD; UW Madison
- Randel Swanson II, DO, PhD; University of Pennsylvania
- James Wilson, DO; MetroHealth