Mac Keith Press Promising Career Award

The Academy has a deep interest in promoting scientific excellence in order to advance knowledge in the field of childhood disabilities. To be eligible for this award the applicant must be an academy member, be within 4 years of completion of training, and indicate an interest in being considered for the award on the annual meeting abstract submission form. Both free-paper presentations and scientific posters (not demonstration posters) can be considered for this award. Award winner will be selected based on committee rating of presented work and announced at the awards session of the current annual meeting. The recipient will receive a certificate and $500, which is contributed by Mac Keith Press, publisher of the Academy’s journal, Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology.

2009

Jordan Brooks, MPH
Low weight and mortality in children with cerebral palsy: Recent findings from the California database
J Brooks, S Day, D Strauss, R Shavelle
*Manuscript in process

2008

Catherine Limperopoulos, PhD
Cerebellar Injury Impairs Cerebral Growth and Development in Preterm Infants
C Limperopoulos, AJ du Plessis
*Manuscript under review

2007

Volker Mall, MD
Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy Induces Neuroplastic Changes in Congenital Hemiparesis: an fMRI and TMS Study
V Mall, N Kuhnke, H Jünger, M Staudt, S Berweck

Related publications generated:
Linder-Lucht M, Juenger H, Walther M, Berweck S, Staudt M, Mall V.
Cortical Neuromodulation by Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy in Congenital Hemiparesis– an fMRI Study.
Neuropediatrics, 38, 2007:1303-306.

Kuhnke N, Juenger H, Walther M, Berweck S, Mall V, Staudt M.
Do patients with congenital hemiparesis and ipsilateral corticospinal projections respond differently to constraint-induced movement therapy?
Dev Med Child Neurol, Vol 50, Issue 12, 2008:898-903.

Walther M, Juenger H, Kuhnke N, Wilke M, Brodbeck V, Berweck S, Staudt
M, Mall V.
Motor cortex plasticity in ischemic perinatal stroke – a TMS and fMRI study.
Pediatric Neurology, (in print).

2006

Sandra Fucile, PhD, OTR
Vacuum-Free Bottle Facilitate Preterm Infants Nutritive Sucking Skills
E Gisel, S Fucile, RJ Schandler, C Lau

Related publications generated:
S Fucile, E Gisel, RJ Schanler, C Lau
A Controlled-flow Vacuum-free Bottle System Enhances Preterm
Infants’ Nutritive Sucking Skills
Dysphagia, 24, 2009:145–151