MRRI is pleased to announce that Amanda Rabinowitz, PhD, has been selected as this year’s recipient of the Joshua B. Cantor Scholar Award from the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM). The Cantor Scholar Award was created in memory of the late Joshua B. Cantor, a board-certified rehabilitation psychologist and leader in the field of traumatic brain injury (TBI) research who was deeply involved in ACRM and the organization’s Brain Injury Interdisciplinary Special Interest Group. Dr. Cantor was committed to developing more effective treatments and helping people with TBI lead fuller lives through his research on issues surrounding sleep, fatigue, cognition, and emotion following TBI.

The Cantor Scholar Award recognizes one ACRM Brain Injury Interdisciplinary Special Interest Group member each year who has made substantial contributions to the field of brain injury neurorehabilitation. Each recipient’s research demonstrates the theoretical and methodological soundness, as well as the creativity in research design and/or intervention content that characterized the work of Dr. Cantor. The award will be presented at the ACRM Annual Conference in Dallas, TX, this fall.

Through the research she leads in the Brain Injury Neuropsychology Lab at MRRI, Dr. Rabinowitz has made important contributions to our understanding of chronic brain injury outcomes, spanning the spectrum of TBI severity. She has conducted important research on the psychosocial factors that can improve resilience after TBI, and her work leverages mobile technology and ecological momentary assessment to better assess outcomes and deliver interventions. Dr. Rabinowitz is also the Scientific Director of the Moss Traumatic Brain Injury Model System, and she continues to contribute to collaborative research on long-term brain injury outcomes. Like Dr. Cantor, Dr. Rabinowitz’s work is bringing hope, solace, and potential routes to better outcomes for people with traumatic brain injury.