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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 Âé¶¹APP 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 Âé¶¹APP¡¯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 Âé¶¹APP.

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Past award winners of the Materson Grant Award include Shirley Ryan Âé¶¹APP 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.