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 Rehab Sciences  06/12/17

Joseph T. Giacino, PhD was named the 2017 recipient of the Robert L. Moody Prize for Distinguished Initiatives in Brain Injury Research and Rehabilitation at the 17th Annual Galveston Brain Injury Conference May 4 & 5, 2017.

The conference is sponsored jointly by the Transitional Learning Center in Galveston and the Center for Recovery, Physical Activity and Nutrition (CeRPAN) at UTMB. Dr. Giacino is the Director of Rehabilitation Neuropsychology and Research Associate in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston. He is also an associate professor at Harvard Medical School.

 Rehab Sciences  05/19/17

Congratulations to Amol Karmarkar, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Division of Rehabilitation Sciences, recipient of a Graduate Student Organization Distinguished Teaching Award, presented at the 2017 Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Commencement on May 19, 2017.

 Rehab Sciences  05/18/17

Monique Pappadis, PhD, assistant professor in the Division of Rehabilitation Sciences and Fellow/RL5 Scholar of the Sealy Center on Aging, was recently selected to participate in the National Institute on Aging (NIA) Butler-Williams (B-W) Scholars Program, to be held July 31- August 4, 2017. The B-W Scholars Program is an intensive 5-day program geared towards emerging aging researchers and those with limited involvement in research on aging to learn more about research on aging and to further develop their interest in this challenging and important area. Dr. Pappadis is one of 53 participants selected from among a group of outstanding applicants.

 Rehab Sciences  05/16/17

The Center for Recovery, Physical Activity and Nutrition, a research initiative of the Division of Rehabilitation Sciences and the Department of Nutrition and Metabolism at UTMB hosted visitors from the University of Texas, San Antonio on May 15th, 2017.

Principal Investigator Blake Rasmussen, PhD, gave a presentation about the the University of Texas Adult Clinical Center (UTACC) for the Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity Consortium (MoTrPAC) and visitors toured the lab facilities in the School of Health Professions at UTMB.

Download agenda and view photos of the event.

 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine  05/09/17

While Assistive Technologies Can Enable Those With Disabilities to Work, Environmental and Personal Factors Still Create Barriers

WASHINGTON – Assistive products and technologies – such as wheelchairs, upper-limb prostheses, and hearing and speech devices – hold promise for partially or fully mitigating the effects of impairments and enabling people with disabilities to work, but in some cases environmental and personal factors create additional barriers to employment, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. - Read Press Release

Rehabilitation Sciences Director, Ken Ottenbacher, PhD, OTR, served on the committee that produced this report.

 Rehab Sciences  05/03/17

Addie Middleton, PhD, PT, Assistant Professor in Rehab Sciences presented, "Improving Care for Older Adults" in the Pepper Investigator's Lecture on May 3, 2017.