Congratulations to the recipients of the 2021 Rehabilitation Institute Pilot Award Program and the 17th Annual Rehabilitation Institute Research Day best research and poster session winners!
Dr. Amy Wagner and a team of investigators received funds for their project entitled, "“Social Determinants of Health as risk factors for Mental Health Comorbidities after Moderate to Severe TBI." Dr. Chaitanya Gopinath received funds for a project entitled, “Recto-perianal Stimulation for Selective Activation of Micturition and Continence Reflexes in Lower Urinary Tract.”
The RI Day best research awardees were:
Undergraduate: Kaitlin DiGiovine, "Pain Severity and Interference as Predicted by Mode of Mobility Among Individuals with Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury"
Pre-Doctoral or Masters: Hailee Kulich, "An evaluation of content validity of the Caregiver Assisted Transfer Technique Instrument (CATT)"
Pre-Doctoral or Masters: Hailee Kulich, "An evaluation of content validity of the Caregiver Assisted Transfer Technique Instrument (CATT)"
Post-Doctoral: Kathleen Poploski, "Information Retrieval from ACL Reconstruction Operative Reports: A Pilot Study"
Medical Student: Chukwudi Onyeukwu, "Baseline Scores Influence the Minimum Clinically Important Difference of the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons Scale in People with Rotator Cuff Tears"
Resident: Kuntal Chowdhary, "Age Attenuates the Benefits of Platelet-Rich Plasma on Chondrocyte Health"
The RI Day poster session awardees were:
Undergraduate: Vincent Vozzella, "Evaluating the efficacy of music to promote neurobehavioral and cognitive recovery after brain trauma"
Pre-Doctoral or Masters: Ritesh Kumar, "Soft silicone-based neural interface to modulate bladder function in awake-behaving cats"
Medical Student: Ayesha Firdous, "Metformin reduces NF-ƙB nuclear translocation under inflammatory stress in rat annulus fibrosus cells"
Resident: Nicholas Race, "Positive ɑ7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor allosteric modulation effects on sustained attention and cholinergic neurotransmission after experimental traumatic brain injury"
Pre-Doctoral or Masters: Ritesh Kumar, "Soft silicone-based neural interface to modulate bladder function in awake-behaving cats"
Medical Student: Ayesha Firdous, "Metformin reduces NF-ƙB nuclear translocation under inflammatory stress in rat annulus fibrosus cells"
Resident: Nicholas Race, "Positive ɑ7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor allosteric modulation effects on sustained attention and cholinergic neurotransmission after experimental traumatic brain injury"
Thank you to all who submitted proposals and abstracts, as well as to those who reviewed submissions!