Marca Sipski, M.D., Named to UAB Endowed Chair in Rehabilitation Neuroscience Research

BIRMINGHAM, AL — Marca L. Sipski, M.D., president of the American Spinal Injury Association, was appointed today to an endowed chair at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), in actions by the UA System Board of Trustees. The newly established chair is named the Women’s Committee of Spain Rehabilitation Center (SRC) Endowed Chair in Rehabilitation Neuroscience Research.

April 7, 2006

BIRMINGHAM, AL — Marca L. Sipski, M.D., president of the American Spinal Injury Association, was appointed today to an endowed chair at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), in actions by the UA System Board of Trustees. The newly established chair is named the Women’s Committee of Spain Rehabilitation Center (SRC) Endowed Chair in Rehabilitation Neuroscience Research.

The SRC Women’s Committee began fundraising efforts for the endowment in 1996. Its members volunteer their time and resources to support the SRC. The endowed chair is the first in the country in a department of physical medicine and rehabilitation.

Sipski is professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at UAB and specializes in women’s issues in spinal cord injury. She joined the faculty last year as director of neuroscience rehabilitation research. Her most recent position was at the University of Miami, where she was project director for a federal grant to establish a regional spinal cord injury system, one of only 16 in the nation. Spain Rehabilitation Center has been part of the federally-funded system for 34 years.

Sipski is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University and received her M.D. degree from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. She completed an internship and a residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia.