Awards and Honors

2012

  • Anne Ambrose: Castle Connolly America’s Top Doctors
  • Joshua Cantor: Elizabeth & Sidney Licht Award for Excellence in Scientific Writing, American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine
  • Marcel Dijkers: Gold Key Award, American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine
  • Brian Greenwald: Castle Connolly America’s Top Doctors
  • Erik Storholm, Nora Goudsmit, Maria Kajankova and Kristen Dams-O’Connor: The David Strauss, PhD, Memorial Award for the poster: Depression as a mediator of the relation between behavioral disinhibition and substance abuse among individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI). American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine
  • Maria Kajankova, Nora Goudsmit, Erik Storholm and Kristen Dams-O’Connor: Early Career Poster Award, for the poster: Self-perception and identity development among TBI survivors according to stage of development at injury. Brain Injury Interdisciplinary Special Interest Group, American Congress of Rehabilitation

2011

  • Anne Ambrose: Castle Connolly America’s Top Doctors
  • Wayne Gordon: Gold Key Award, American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine
  • Wayne Gordon: Life Achievement Award, Brain Injury Inter-disciplinary Special Interest Group of ACRM
  • Brian Greenwald: Castle Connolly America’s Top Doctors
  • Brian Greenwald: Rolland Parker Memorial Lecture: Pain perception, management and disorders of consciousness, New York Academy of Traumatic Brain Injury
  • Seton Melvin: Volunteer of the Year, Mount Sinai Medical Center
  • Timothy Pruce: Ted Weiss Consumer Advocacy Award, Brain Injury Association of New York State

2010

  • Kristen Dams-O’Connor: Early Career Psychologist Credentialing Scholarship, National Register Millennium Fund
  • Wayne Gordon: Presenter, National Research Council’s evaluation of the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research
  • Wayne Gordon: William Fields Caveness Award, Brain Injury Association of America
  • Brian Greenwald: Castle Connolly America’s Top Doctors

2009

  • Marcel Dijkers: Distinguished Member Award, American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine
  • Wayne Gordon: The Robert L. Moody Prize for Distinguished Initiatives in Brain Injury Research and Rehabilitation, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston
  • Wayne Gordon: Department of Defense “Blue Ribbon” Panel on TBI and PTSD, Psychological Treatment
  • Brian Greenwald: Mount Sinai Medical Center Physician of the Year

2008

  • Wayne Gordon: Leonard Diller Lecture. A perspective on 40 years of cognitive rehabilitation. American Psychological Association, Division 22, Rehabilitation Psychology
  • Wayne Gordon: NASHIA Partnership Award, National Association of State Head Injury Administrators
  • Brian Greenwald: Castle Connolly America’s Top Doctors
  • Timothy Pruce: Marie Ivanchich Memorial Award, and Journey of Hope Victory Award, Brain Injury Association of New York State
  • Ralph William Shields: Exemplary Participation in the Federal TBI Program Award, Health and Rehabilitation Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

2007

  • Wayne Gordon: Elected Fellow, American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine
  • Brian Greenwald: Jerry Weissman Teacher of the Year Award, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York
  • Adam Warshowsky, Teresa Ashman, Joshua Cantor and Matthew Egan: The David Strauss, PhD, Memorial Award. For the poster: Employment status, perceived employability, and independence/assertiveness: Quality of life and community participation after traumatic brain injury. Brain Injury Special Interest Group, American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine.

2006

  • Margaret Brown: The Beatrice Wright and Tamara Dembo Lecture, Past and present meet in the RRTC on TBI Interventions, American Psychological Association Division 22, Rehabilitation Psychology
  • Wayne Gordon: Special Recognition Award, National Association of Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers
  • Brian Greenwald: Young Investigator Award, Mount Sinai General Clinical Research Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York
  • Roberta Oldfield, Teresa Ashman, Joshua Cantor and Leo Waterston: The David Strauss, PhD, Memorial Award. For the poster: Spirituality as a predictor of mood and quality of life after traumatic brain injury. Brain Injury Special Interest Group, American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine

2005

  • Marcel Dijkers: Elected Fellow. American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine
  • Mary Hibbard Joshua Cantor, Heather Charatz and Zhifen Cheng: The David Strauss, PhD, Memorial Award. For the poster: Evaluating the impact of a peer mentoring program for individuals with TBI and their family members, Brain Injury Special Interest Group, American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine.