Lifetime Achievement Award

This award is presented to a special presidential guest lecturer selected by the First Vice President. During their lifetime, the recipient of this award has made creative contributions of outstanding significance to the field of medicine and for the benefit of patients with cerebral palsy and other childhood-onset disabilities.

2025 Recipient: Eileen Fowler, PhD, PT

PAST WINNERS:
2024: Darcy Fehlings, MD, MSc, FRCPC
2023: Freeman Miller, MD
2022: Johanna Darrah, PT, Ph.D
2021: Richard L. Lieber, PhD 
2020: Michael Sussman, MD
2019: Barry S. Russman, MD
2018: Deb Gaebler-Spira, MD
2017: Marshalyn Yeargin-Allsopp, MD
2016: James Gage, MD
2015: William Oppenheim, MD