Awards/Grants

Awards & Recognition:

  • 2019 -A Novel Tool for Predicting One-year Mortality after Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury. 8th Annual National Spinal Cord Conference Oct 2019, Niagara Falls, ON. Second place award for the podium presentation in Knowledge Generation category
  • 2019 –The interpretation of neurological recovery based on timing of neurologic assessment in SCI. 8th Annual National Spinal Cord Conference Oct 2019, Niagara Falls, ON. People choice award for the best poster.
  • 2017 -Does Specialized Inpatient Rehabilitation Affect Whether or Not People with Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury Return Home? 7th Annual National Spinal Cord Conference Nov 2017, Niagara Falls, ON. First place award in Knowledge Generation category (co-author)
  • 2017 -Secondary health conditions: impact on function, health-related quality of life, and life satisfaction following traumatic spinal cord injury. 7th Annual National Spinal Cord Conference Nov 2017, Niagara Falls, ON. Second place award in Knowledge Generation category (co-author)
  • 2017 -A simplified clinical prediction rule for prognosticating independent walking after spinal cord injury: a prospective study from a Canadian multi-centre registry. Paper won the Canadian Orthopaedic Research Society (CORS) Canadian Orthopaedic Association (COA) and Canadian Orthopaedic Research Society (CORS) Annual Meeting June 2017, Ottawa, ON. Founders’ Medal for best basic science presentation (co-author)
  • 2016 -Classifying Injury Severity and Predicting Neurologic Outcome after Acute Human Spinal Cord Injury with Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers. Canadian Spine Society, Whistler, BC, Feb 2016. Awarded as the 2016 CSS Best paper Debbie Scarlett prize (co-author)
  • 2016 -Methylprednisolone for the Treatment of Patients with Acute Spinal Cord Injuries: A Propensity Score-Matched Cohort Study from a Canadian Multi-Center Spinal Cord Injury RHSCIR Network. ICORD 2016. Awarded as the 2016 ICORD Third Prize for Best Poster
  • 2015 -Classifying Injury Severity and Predicting Neurologic Outcome after Acute Human Spinal Cord Injury with Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers”; 43rd Cervical Spine Research Society Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, Dec 3-5, 2015 Awarded as the 2015 CSRS Best Basic Science Poster (co-author)
  • 2014 -Minimizing Errors in Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury Clinical Trials by Acknowledging the Heterogeneity of Spinal Cord Anatomy and Injury Severity: An Observational Canadian Cohort Analysis. International Spinal Cord Society, Maastricht, Sept 2014. Awarded as Third Poster in the Patient Care Category (co-author)

Grants:

  • 2023-2028 Co-Investigator, Improving reproducibility in experimental research by using shared data -a use case in spinal cord injury, Canadian Institute of Health. Research(CIHR); (Amount: $784,126), Canada
  • 2018-2020 Collaborator, Spinal Cord Perfusion Pressure Management in Acute Cervical SCI. The Cervical Spine Research Society (Amount: $100,000), Canada
  • 2009-2011 -Postdoctoral Fellowship, Alzheimer Society of Canada2009-2010 -Postdoctoral Internship, Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS), Canada
  • 2009 -Travel award, 6th Canadian Young Researcher Conference in Mathematics and Statistics, Calgary
  • 2003 -Travel scholarship sponsored by International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Genes, Genomics and the Development of Behavior: The Development of Function in the Nervous System workshop, Italy

Reviewing Activities (Journals):

  • BMC Geriatric
  • Spinal Cord (Nature)
  • Scientific Reports (Nature)
  • Neuroepidemiology
  • Clinical Endocrinology
  • Journal of Public Health
  • Journal of Applied Statistics
  • British Medical Journal (BMJ)
  • Iranian Journal of Pathology
  • Frontiers in Neurology
  • Frontiers in Medicine
  • Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
  • Neural Computing and Applications
  • Mechanism of Aging and Development
  • The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine
  • Topics in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation
  • Current Gerontology and Geriatric Research
  • Neurology (The American Academy of Neurology)

 Reviewing Activities (Grants/Applications):

  • University of Calgary
  • Praxis Spinal Cord Institute
  • Sloan Research Fellowships, USA
  • Health Research Council of New Zealand
  • New Frontiers in Research Fund, Tri-agency Institutional Programs,                             Government of Canada

Associate Editor:

  • 2021- Frontiers in Big data
  • 2021- Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence