Awards Committee

The ISPRM Awards Committee is charged with seeking out honorees for two major awards:

The Herman J. Flax Lifetime Achievement Award, honoring a pioneer in our field.

For a brief autobiography of Dr. Flax, see http://www.pmr.vcu.edu/alumni/hflax/flaxAA2002.htm

Previous Honorees:

  • 1993 - Herman Flax
  • 1996 - Hans Hachen
  • 2001- Jose Jimenez
  • 2003 - William Peek
  • 2005 - John Melvin

The Sidney Licht Lectureship is named after one of the pioneers in physical medicine. The first lecture was given by Howard Rusk, MD in 1982 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Previous Honorees:

Individual Honor Role Membership shall be granted by the Board of Governors to any Active Member, following a proposal by any Active National Society Member or Active Individual Member, as a mark of respect in recognition of distinguished contributions to the field of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

Previous Honorees:

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

The nomination policy of the International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (ISPRM) stipulates that the Awards Committee must make recommendations to the Board of Governors for the Herman J. Flax Lifetime Achievement and the Sidney Licht Lectureship Awards.

The Award Committee, chaired by our Past President Haim Ring (hring@isprm.org), herewith would like to make a CALL FOR NOMINATIONS. ISPRM members in good standing can forward their nominees to the Central Office by January 31 at the latest. All nominations must be accompanied by a justification and a short CV of the candidates.

The Awards Committee will announce its decision at the upcoming ISPRM World Congress in Sao Paolo.

Committee Members

Linamara Battistella Chair fisiatria@usp.br
Pedro Cantista pedrocantista@netcabo.pt
Veronika Fialka-Moser pmr-office@meduniwien.ac.at 
William Peek wjpeek@peek.nl
Alberto Esquenazi aesquena@einstein.edu
Tai Ryoon Han tairyoon@snu.ac.kr