Max Hurwitz
- 2024 PhyzTalks winner for presentation: "Disability and Homelessness: How Street Medicine Tackles Health Injustice"
- Selected for one of the 2024 Provost’s Awards for Diversity in the Curriculum
- Received the Beckwith Foundation Grant for Street Medicine Consult Service
- Authored 3 new publications regarding disability and homelessness:
- “Unmet needs: Bringing Physical Rehabilitation to People Experiencing Homelessness”
- “Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation for the Transition out of Homelessness with a Traumatic Brain Injury”
- “A Case of Delusional Parasitosis Associated with Xylazine Use”
Lee Fisher
- Awarded tenure in the Dept. of PM&R at UPSOM
Jen Collinger
- Promoted to rank of Professor in the Dept. of PM&R at UPSOM
Loren Pease
- Recently named the Associate Program Director of the Cardiac Neurodevelopmental Program at CHP
Chris Standaert
- Interviewed on UPMC HP podcast with Tony Dejoya and Ellen Beckjord on Aging and bone/ joint health
- Appointed to a committee for the National Academies of Science and Medicine studying the relationship between pain and disability
Brendan McNeish
- Recieved a Richard Materson ERF New Investigator Grant from the Foundation for PM&R for a proposal titled “Executive function’s association with mobile measures of community walking in older breast cancer survivors: a pilot study”
Suehen Ho
- Appointed to the Part I Associate Committee with the ABPMR
Karen Barr
- Passed the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine Board Exam
- Completed the Physician Leadership Essentials Program
Kerry DeLuca
- Elected Secretary/Treasurer of UPMC Presbyterian Campus Medical Staff Officers and a member of the Medical Executive Committee
Megan Cortazzo
- Elected At-Large Representative UPMC Presbyterian Campus Medical Staff Officers and a member of the Medical Executive Committee
Christy Zigler
- Elected as Chair-Elect for the 'Child Health SIG (Special Interest Group)' — part of ISOQOL (International Society for Quality of Life Research)
- First author on publication: "Evaluating anchor variables and variation in meaningful score differences for PROMIS® Pediatric measures in children and adolescents living with a rheumatic disease"
Jessica Jarvis
- Published article highlighting FISA project
Amy Houtrow
- Testified on December 12, 2024 for Senator Casey’s last committee meeting as Chair of the Senate Committee on Aging
Gina McKernan, Matt Mesoros and Brad Dicianno
- Published a paper: "Machine Learning Algorithms for Prediction of Ambulation and Wheelchair Transfer Ability in Spina Bifida"
Ryan Nussbaum
- Served as Session Director for an Overhead Athlete Ultrasound workshop at AAPMR Annual Assembly
- Revived a fan at a Duquesne Women’s Basketball Game on January 5, 2025