MedStar National Rehabilitation Network will be hosting its 2014 Gala Victory Awards®, Thursday, October 30 at the Marriott Marquis (901 Massachusetts Ave., NW Washington, D.C., 20001) at 6 p.m.

The evening will feature a full silent auction followed by a seated dinner with a live auction. Honorees at the Gala will receive Victory Awards® for their courage in facing the challenges of overcoming disabilities. One of this year’s honorees is CNN’s Miles O’Brien, an amputee. Also being honored: CareerBuilder.com founder Rob McGovern, who suffered a brain injury in a car accident; and 19-year-old Nick Balenger, a George Mason student and baseball pitcher, who suffered a spinal cord injury in a surfing accident in Hawaii – and is walking again.

Past honorees of note include: Sen. Bob Dole; reporter Bob Woodruff; singer/musician Stevie Wonder; Sen. Tim Johnson; University of Maryland broadcaster Tim Strachan; Boston Marathon bombing survivor Adrianne Haslet-Davis; and Olympic snowboarder Kevin Pearce.

All proceeds from this year’s Gala will support the new National Center for Brain Injury and Stroke Rehabilitation & Research, which is to be housed in a new addition at MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital in D.C. The Center will help maintain the network’s national leadership position in brain injury rehabilitation and research.