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Christopher A. Taylor, MD, has received the Ernest W. Johnson Excellence in Research Writing Award from the Association of Academic Physiatrists for his May 2008 publication titled, The Incidence of Peripheral Nerve Injury in Extremity Trauma.
The Ernest W. Johnson Excellence in Research Writing Award is sponsored by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins/Wolters Kluwer Health, publisher of the American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. The award recognizes outstanding research by investigators in training.
Dr. Taylor completed his Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation residency at the Medical College of Wisconsin in July 2007 and is currently in the second year of a spine and sports medicine fellowship at Portner Orthopedics in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Co-authors of this publication are Diane W. Braza, MD, Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Medical Director of the SpineCare Clinic; J. Bradford Rice, PhD, Associate at Analysis Group, Inc., in Boston; and Timothy R. Dillingham, MD, Chairman and Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
John R. McGuire, MD, Associate Professor, was recently featured on Good Morning America. The story, entitled "The Future of Stroke Rehabilitation" discusses new developments in stroke therapies. Dr. McGuire, one of our PGY III residents, Brian Knapp, MD and an Occupational Therapist from Froedtert Hospital, Terry Walton, are all featured in the story, along with one of Dr. McGuire's patients. The story discusses the use of Botox and the Bioness H200 hand therapy device in the treatment of patients with impairments due to stroke.
To view the program, go to Good Morning America: The Future of Stroke Rehabilitation.