Division of Rehabilitation Sciences

Ken Ottenbacher, PhD, OTR presents in a symposium during the annual American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine meeting.

Several members of the Division attended and presented, including:

• Julianna Bores received Best Early Career Poster for "Patient Characteristics Associated with Functional Status Change in Stroke."
• Jason Johnson presented, “Frailty as a Predictor of Life-Space Mobility among Community Dwelling Older Mexican Americans,” as a part of the CLDR-sponsored Travel Award.
• Jaspreet Sodhi presented, “Association between Pain and Frailty over Time among Older Mexican Americans,” as well as presented a poster.

• Advancing Knowledge on Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia through Health Services Research
• Demonstrating the Value of Rehabilitation in the Era of Value Based Care Using Medicare Data
• SPECIAL SYMPOSIUM: Post-Acute Health Services Research: Many Challenges, Many More Opportunities
• SPECIAL SYMPOSIUM: Big Data in Stroke: Current Applications and Future Possibilities
• CLDR-Sponsored Young Investigators Panel: Large data analysis of stroke lesion effects on subcortical volumes
• IC23: How to Find and Access Secondary Data for Your Research

Congratulations to Rehabilitation Sciences PhD Program student Juliana Bores for receiving the Best Early Career Poster in Geriatric Rehabilitation by the American College of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM) Geriatric Rehabilitation Networking Group. She present ed her poster, "Patient Characteristics Associated with Functional Status Change in Stroke," on October 2nd during the annual ACRM meeting.

Rehabilitation Sciences doctoral student Jaspreet Sodhi has been awarded a 2018 President's Cabinet Award receiving funding for a project entitled, "An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure: The St. Vincent's/Luke Society Preventive Dental Health Clinic Collaborative."

Ms. Sodhi partnered with Anthony Nguyen, School of Medicine Student, Jay Truitt, MD, PhD, PharmD and Barbara Slusher, MSW, PA-C, DFAAPA, Physician Assistant Studies at UTMB.

The group's $50,000 award will help them achieve their goal to create a new preventive dental health clinic at St. Vincent's House in Galveston, in partnership with The Luke Society for indigent, uninsured, and underinsured individuals. The new clinic will provide no-cost services to help prevent new tooth/oral infections, reduce dental decay, decrease the need for antibiotic usage, and improve systemic health. The funding, which will run through August 2020 will allow a triple focus to be placed on access to dental care (including oral hygiene education), antibiotic stewardship, and interprofessional training/education.

Rehabilitation Sciences doctoral student Ioannis Malagaris, MSc has been selected as a Jeane B. Kempner Scholar for 2018-2019. His application is titled, "Protein intake in burn injury. Methodology development in stable isotope studies." Congratulations to Ioannis on this prestigious fellowship.