Kara Hannibal was selected to receive a Promotion of Doctoral Studies (PODS) Scholarship given by the Foundation for Physical Therapy for her work titled “The impact of chronic stress-induced cortisol dysfunction on acute musculoskeletal pain and manual therapy outcomes”. A brief description of the work is as follows: Cortisol is…
RSD alum, Fan Ye, was awarded the runner-up Experimental Physiology Early Career Author’s Prize for his article Overexpression of insulin-like growth factor-1 attenuates skeletal muscle damage and accelerates muscle regeneration and functional recovery after disuse The Experimental Physiology Early Career Author’s prize…
Steven George PT, PhD was identified as the #10 ranked world expert for contributions to the understanding and treatment of back pain by Expertscape in a May 22nd press release – http://www.prlog.org/12325882-expertscape-ranks-worlds-top-doctors-and-hospitals-in-back-pain.html. Expertscape determines its rankings based on the quantity and quality of peer-review clinical research publications in…
Adam Beharry receives the RSD Outstanding Paper Award The RSD program honored two students with Outstanding Paper Awards at the College of Public Health and Health Professions Convocation on May 2nd. Students were nominated by faculty mentors and had to…
The RSD program graduated three new Ph.D. students in April 2014. Meryl Alappattu, mentored by Dr. Mark Bishop– Dissertation Title “Peripheral and Central Factors in Female Pelvic Pain” Ishu Arpan, mentored by Dr. Krista Vandenborne– Dissertation Title “Non-Invasive Monitoring of Muscle Response to Disease Progression and Therapeutic Interventions in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy…
Rehabilitation Science doctoral student Charles (Chaz) Gay received recognition for his award winning research paper at the Association of Chiropractic Colleges (ACC) Research Agenda Conference. Gay’s prize winning submission was chosen on the basis of quality, order of evidence, scientific foundation, format,and writing style and has been selected for…
1. Tell us a little about your experience in the RSD program. I entered the RSD program in the Fall of 2001. I was attracted to the interdisciplinary nature of the RSD program that reflected how rehabilitation specialists work in the ‘real world’, the breath and depth of…
RSD student, Yoonjeong Lim, gave an oral presentation at the AOTA’s 94th Annual Conference in Baltimore in early April. The title of her research paper presentation was “Child-Parent Agreement on Health-related Quality of Life in Boys with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: Using both Classical Test Theory and Rasch Analysis Approaches”. Ms.
RSD Program Director, Dr. David Fuller, has received a 2014 Neuroimaging Pilot Grant for a project titled “High Angular Resolution Imaging of Cervical Respiratory Pathway following Spinal Cord”. This collaborative work includes faculty from UF’s College of Medicine and College of Engineering. The project combines expertise in SCI modeling and respiratory neurophysiology (D.D. Fuller,…
Dr. Joel Bialosky and Dr. Mark Bishop were honored recently by the American Physical Therapy Association’s Orthopaedic Section by winning the Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy Excellence in Research Award. Dr. Claudia Senesac was honored by the American Physical Therapy Association’s Pediatrics Section by winning the APTA Outstanding Pediatric Clinician…
