A paper authored by Michael DeVivo, Dr.PH., director emeritus of the National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center, housed in the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, was the most-cited paper published in Spinal Cord in 2012.
The paper, titled “Epidemiology of Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury: Trends and Future Implications,” is based primarily on data from UAB’s Spinal Cord Injury Model System Database and was prepared for the State of the Science in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation: Informing a New Research Agenda conference held in 2011.