Mike Reding, MD, President, ASNR

Welcome to ASNR Web Site
 

During the past year the ASNR has been steadily advancing its mission:  “1) to promote the medical and social well being of persons with disabling neurological disorders;  2) to advance training and research in the basic and clinical sciences that can lead to functional recovery of neurologically impaired persons; and 3) to disseminate the knowledge of this research among professionals and the general public.” 

We are deliberately growing the transdisciplinary composition of our Board of Directors, our Committees and our General Membership to express the breadth of skills and interests relevant for remediation of neurologic impairments.  It is hoped that this cross-fertilization will speed the dissemination of new insights and developments from one discipline to another. 

The ASNR’s grounding in the neurosciences is an opportunity to bring research from the bench to the bedside.  The ASNR is actively searching for new developments in Neuropsychiatry, Neurobehavior, Neurophysiology, Neuropharmacology, Molecular Neurobiology,

Functional Neuroimaging, and other neuroscience research areas relevant for neurorehabilitation. The results of these efforts are

best demonstrated both by the success of our journal, Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair Edited by Bruce Dobkin, and the Scientific Program for our Annual Meeting developed collaboratively by George Wittenberg and Tamara Bushnick , program director for the ACRM.  In addition, our 2 Day Neurorehabilitation Workshop series, presented this past June by Steve Page at the Drake Center in Cincinnati was another very successful educational event.  There were 136 attendees representing eighteen states and two countries.

The ASNR Foundation, under the leadership of David Good, continues to provide funding for the Outstanding Neurorehabilitation

Clinician-Scientist Award.  It also identifies an outstanding clinician researcher to be selected for the Viste Award.  This year’s Outstanding Neurorehabilitation Clinician-Scientist Awardee is Dr. Thomas Carmichael, and the Viste Awardee is Dr. John Chae.  The Fellowship awards for service to ASNR and to Neurorehabilitation in general will be presented to Mike Weinrich, MD and Leonardo Cohen, PhD.

During the past year our Web-Site Committee headed by Joel Feigenson, Jeffrey Samuels, and Steven Page, PhD together with Shannon Wild, our ASNR Associate Executive Director have upgraded our Web Site to allow us to present videotaped lectures, courses and host discussion groups relevant for our members and the general public.  We have received funding from one of our sponsoring institutions, Burke Rehabilitation Hospital to videotape this year’s annual Adelson and Viste Award lectures as our initial on-line lecture presentations.

I would like to thank Our ASNR Executive Committee members, David Good, Anna Barrett and Krish Sathian for their ongoing efforts and expertise contributing to the success of the ASNR.  A very special thanks is also due to Shannon Wild, our ASNR Associate Executive Director for her dedication and creative efforts in advancing the ASNR’s mission.

We hope that you will support our mission, and consider joining the ASNR.  The more diverse and involved our membership becomes, the more we will be able to share and advance our common goals. Please use the web site link below to access our membership application page.