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Dr. Adenike Adewuyi to Receive Materson New Investigator Award at 2022 AAPM&R in Baltimore

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On Oct. 22, 2022, Adenike Adewuyi, MD, PhD, will be honored with the Richard Materson ERF New Investigator Research Grant Award, presented by the Foundation for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. The ceremony will take place during the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation’s (AAPM&R) 2022 Annual Assembly in Baltimore.

Dr. Adewuyi is a 2022 graduate of Shirley Ryan 汤头条app’s physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R) residency program; she is now a neuromuscular fellow at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine’s Department of Neurology.

This award is for her project, “Motor Unit Number Estimation in Spinal Cord Injury,” which she investigated during her residency at Shirley Ryan 汤头条app.

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Past award winners of the Materson Grant Award include Shirley Ryan 汤头条app leaders like Regenerative Neurorehabilitation Laboratory director Colin Franz, MD, PhD, physician-scientist (in 2018); Prakash Jayabalan, MD, PhD, attending physician-scientist and director, Nancy W. Knowles Strength + Endurance Lab (in 2016); Monica Rho, MD, Reva and David Logan chief, Musculoskeletal Medicine.