Congratulations to the recipients of the 2022 Rehabilitation Institute Pilot Award Program and the 18th Annual Rehabilitation Institute Research Day best research and poster session winners!
2022 RI Pilot Award: Dr. Max Hurwitz, Assistant Professor in the Department of PM&R, and a team of investigators received funds for their project entitled, “Identifying barriers to care following lower extremity limb loss using a human centered framework."
The RI Day best research awardees were:
Resident: Anthony Oyekan, “Neck Symptoms and Associated Outcomes in Patients following Concussion”
Post-doctoral Fellow: Breelyn Styler, “Initial Performance Metrics and Software Design of a Vision-Guided Shared Control System for Assistive Robotic Arms”
Pre-doctoral/Master’s Student: Anna Bailes, “Accuracy of inertial measurement units (IMUs) to assess spine kinematics during a sit-to-stand task”
Medical Student: Jonathan Ho, “Direct Motor Thalamus Stimulation Increases Upper Arm Motor Output in Non-human Primate Model of Stroke”
Undergraduate: Lauren Kaseman, “Racial, Health Insurance, and Urban-Rural Disparities in Rehabilitation Utilization and Unmet Needs Among Pediatric Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)”
The RI Day poster session awardees were:
Resident: Nicholas Race, “Psychosocial safety learning dysfunction following experimental TBI in rats: a pilot”
Post-Doctoral Fellow: Erinn Grigsby, “Towards neuromodulation for stroke motor symptoms. Direct electrical stimulation of the motor thalamus to augment speech production”
Pre-doctoral/Master’s Student: Nicole Sekel, "Slow Wave Activity Sleep is Significantly Associated with Decision-Making During Simulated Military Operational Stress"
Medical Student: Maya Muenzer, “Child and Familial Factors Associated With Physical Activity Guidance Compliance Among Children with Specific Functional Impairments and the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Physical Activity Participation”
Undergraduate: Rithika Reddy, “Positive effects of Œ±7 nicotinic acetylcholinergic receptor modulation and environmental enrichment on sustained attention, cholinergic neurotransmission, and systemic inflammation after controlled cortical impact injury”
Thank you to all who submitted proposals and abstracts, as well as to those who reviewed submissions! A special thanks to our planning committee members, Drs. Brad Dicianno, Beth Skidmore, Corina Bondi, and Shawn Flanagan, as well as Jessa Darwin and Izzy Romanowski.