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NMPT T32 Trainees and Mentor (L to R): Kelly Hawkins, Chris Lacko, Layota Allen, Dr. Andrew Judge, Aaron Morton, Alison Barnard, Lauren Tabor Rehabilitation…

                    This week the program met at Tall Paul’s in downtown Gainesville for our spring social. We traditionally hold this event on campus but decided to offer everyone a chance to get out of…

Clockwise from top left: Wasser, Sood, Doyle, Butera, Medhizdah, Lee The Rehabilitation Science program awarded six travel awards to students to presenting their data at national meetings. Katie Butera Conference: APTA Combined Sections Meeting…

Rehabilitation Science PhD students, Kelly Hawkins, Michael Sunshine, and Tommy Sutor, presented at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting last month. The SfN is the world’s largest organization of scientists and physicians devoted to understanding the brain and nervous system.

Rehabilitation Science PhD student, Mi Jung Lee, has been selected for a UF Informatics Institute (UFII) Graduate Student Fellowship for her  proposal, “Developing a Computerized Universal Measure of Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQOL).” MJ is mentored by Dr. Sergio Romero who will serve as principal investigator (PI) on…

Sherrilene Classen, PhD, MPH, an internationally recognized scientist in rehabilitation, has been named the chair of the Department of Occupational Therapy at the University of Florida. We are excited to announce that when she begins her UF post on January 2, 2017, she will also be joining the…

Drs. David Fuller and Gordon Mitchell were recently invited to serve as guest editors for an issue of Experimental Neurology. The special issue focuses on an  important topic in  rehabilitation – neuroplasticity.  Specifically, this issue examined neuroplasticity in the respiratory system. Respiratory failure is the…

Manuela Corti, PT, PhD, an Assistant Scientist at the University of Florida Powell Gene Therapy Center and a 2011 graduate of the Rehabilitation Science PhD program, has received a nearly $750,00 grant from the Italian patient advocacy group GoFARworth. Read more about the grant,…

Earlier this month Rehabilitation Science graduate faculty, Dorian Rose, PT, PhD, spent two weeks in Kaihura, Uganda. She brought her clinical knowledge to the small village where physical therapy is an unknown profession. She tells us more about her experience in her own words: For fourteen…

Rehabilitation Science Graduate Faculty, Dr. Ianessa Humbert and PhD student, Alicia Vose, recently launched a podcast entitled “Down the Hatch.” It is focused on hot topics relevant to swallowing clinicians throughout the world. They tackle controversial topics in the field of dysphagia management while inter-weaving various…