Awards

The Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) is pleased to announce the winners for best papers in Risk Analysis: An International Journal and the best research posters for 2019. The editorial staff of Risk Analysis selected the 2019 Best Paper award winners. These papers made the most significant impacts on the theory or practice of risk analysis. Judges, as well as members of the society via popular vote, selected the poster winners during the meeting's annual poster session the evening prior.

The Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) awarded 6 prestigious scholarly and service awards and named six new Fellows at its Annual Meeting in Arlington, Virginia. These awards recognize 12 individuals for their outstanding contributions to the society and to the science of risk analysis. The recipients were selected by a committee of SRA past presidents and approved by the SRA Council.

Dr. Zanca has contributed to a system for classifying rehabilitation interventions with support from NIDILRR and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. She is co-investigator for the NIDILRR-funded Northern New Jersey Spinal Cord Injury System, and co-chair of the national Spinal Cord Injury Model System (SCIMS) Knowledge Translation Committee. She is author/co-author of more than 20 peer-reviewed publications and an associate editor for the Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, official journal of the Academy of Spinal Cord Injury Professionals.

2020 Batchelor Prize awarded to Alexander J Smits of Princeton University

The American Pediatric Society (APS) and the Society for Pediatric Research (SPR) are pleased to announce Stella Kourembanas, MD, as the recipient of the 2020 Mary Ellen Avery Award, which honors a pediatric investigator who has made important contributions to neonatal health through basic or translational research.

Mone Zaidi, MD, PhD, Director of the Mount Sinai Bone Program, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

'Mut zur Zukunft: Grenzen überwinden' (looking boldly into the future: crossing borders) -- under this heading, Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier presented the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany to 25 citizens on the occasion of the Day of German Unity. One of the honored citizens is Professor Britta Nestler, who conducts research and teaches at both KIT and Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences.