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The Rosalind Franklin Society (RFS), in partnership with Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers, enthusiastically congratulate our distinguished recipient of the 2022 annual RFS Award in Science for this journal, which recognizes the outstanding research and published work of women and underrepresented minority scientists, physicians, and engineers. Lindsay D. Nelson, Brooke E. Magnus, Nancy R. Temkin, Sureyya Dikmen, Geoffrey T. Manley, and Steve Balsis, ?How Do Scores on the Functional Status Examination (FSE) Correspond to Scores on the Glasgow Outcome Scale-Extended (GOSE)?? Neurotrauma Reports 3, no. 1 (January 2022): 122?128, http://doi.org/10.1089/neur.2021.0057. Abstract We used item response theory (IRT) to determine how raw scores correspond between two widely used measures of functional recovery from traumatic brain injury (TBI), the Functional Status Examination (FSE) and the Glasgow Outcome Scale-Extended (GOSE). Using data from 357 persons with moderate-severe TBI, we modeled the relationship between domain-level scores on the instruments and the latent dimension of disability level at 6 months postinjury. Results revealed that raw scores for the FSE and GOSE can be linked, and a table was provided to translate scores from one instrument to the other. These results allow clinicians or researchers who have a score for a person on one instrument to cross-reference it to a score on the other instrument. Importantly, this enables researchers to combine data sets where some persons only completed the GOSE and some only the FSE. In addition, an investigator could save participant time by eliminating one instrument from a battery of tests, yet still retain a score on that instrument for each participant. More broadly, the findings help anchor scores from these two instruments to the broader continuum of injury-related functional limitations. Biosketch Dr. Nelson is an associate professor and board-certified clinical neuropsychologist at the Medical College of Wisconsin's Center for Neurotrauma Research, where she conducts clinical and translational studies of traumatic brain injury (TBI). She has served as principal investigator on several federally and institutionally funded studies, with a focus on identifying distinct clinical phenotypes of TBI, improving measurement of clinical outcomes, and better understanding individual differences in patient outcomes. Dr. Nelson serves on the executive committee of the International Initiative for TBI Research (InTBIR) and is a co-investigator on the largest American studies of sport-related concussion (Concussion Assessment Research and Education [CARE] Consortium) and civilian TBI (Transforming Research and Clinical Knowledge in TBI [TRACK-TBI]) conducted to date. Nelson is funded by the National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other sources.