Helia Sillem, recent graduate of the MSc Program in Rehabilitation Sciences, is the recipient of the 2011 “First Time Writer’s Award” sponsored by the Journal of Hand Therapy (which will be presented at this year’s American Society of Hand Therapists annual conference in Nashville). She will be receiving this honour for her paper, “Comparison of Two Carpometacarpal Stabilizing Splints for Individuals with Thumb Osteoarthritis” – which has created quite the buzz within the hand therapy world of recent. The award is based on a number of criteria (e.g., study design, impact, etc.) and is awarded to new and enthusiastic clinician-scholars. Dr. Catherine Backman, as her supervisor, as well as other committee members, Dr. Bill Miller and Dr. Linda Li (PT), whole-heartedly support Helia in receiving, and being deserving of, this prestigious award.
This study is now published in the current issue (July-September 2011) of the Journal of Hand Therapy. This study also won “Best Scientific Paper” at the Joint American Society of Hand Therapists/ American Surgery of the Hand Society AGM in San Francisco in September 2009.
Congratulations Helia! We are proud of you.