SHP Researchers

"Respiratory Therapy students benefit from an educational program that is interprofessional and incorporates technology to enhance the learning experience."

"People recovering from lower extremity fractures need to optimize their mobility and physical function during recovery in a way that promotes their physical activity, improves overall health, and enhances quality of life."

"People living with neurodegenerative disease like multiple sclerosis need more accurate and sensitive methods to assess their motor functioning to help inform their decisions for medical and rehabilitation care."

"People who experience heart and lung conditions are functionally limited in performing their daily tasks and need a strategy to improve their capacity to function independently and participate in their community."

"Women across the lifespan need a way to improve nutritional status in a manner that encourages sustainable dietary behaviors and enhanced quality of life."

"Students and faculty of Health Professions need to self-assess, improve, and comply with today’s cultural competence and cultural humility to foster positive, respectful, collaborative, and safer learning and working environments."

"Certified medical laboratory scientists need a way to reduce laboratory testing and reporting errors to provide better quality lab results."

"Older women with urinary incontinence need a way to treat their condition without increasing falls, enabling safe participation in the activities they enjoy."

"Input from patient, caregiver, and community stakeholders is necessary to optimize person-centered research and comprehensive care for families experiencing challenges associated with dementia."

"Older adults need a way to reverse postural changes related to aging in a way that reduces physical decline and improves quality of life."

"Survivors of stroke need strategies to manage their stroke risk factors in ways that are informed, efficacious, and effective in order to improve self-management and decrease risk of recurrent stroke."

"People recovering from brain injury need a way to regain walking ability, allowing them to engage in community activities."

"Aging adults need accessible and effective nutrition and exercise-based interventions to help preserve their physical function, especially during periods of illness or following an injury."

"Individuals living with disabilities need high-value continuity of post-acute rehabilitation to achieve optimal functional recovery and reduce risks of adverse health events such as costly readmissions."

"Older women need a way to improve physical function in a way that is engaging and encourages sustained walking habits."

"Sociopolitical factors, population demographics, and workforce trends influence a profession and the population it serves. Hence, they need to be monitored and examined to ensure need-based and equitable access to care for all."

"Physical Therapy students need a curriculum design that effectively prepares students for the complexity and uncertainty associated with clinical practice. A curriculum that comprises an educational platform that fosters innovation, mastery of content knowledge, development of skill competence, and cultivates the utilization of sound clinical reasoning skills. Student athletes need a way to minimize injury risk and optimize sport performance to participate without limitation during the competition season. People living with musculoskeletal pain conditions need a way to successfully manage their symptoms and maximize participation in activities that add quality and value to their daily lives."

"Improving daily function of wheelchair users is important for maintaining independence, quality of life, and reducing secondary conditions."

"Student physical therapists benefit from an education program that reduces stress and burnout, thus improving the clinical education experience."

"Doctorate in Clinical Laboratory Science students (DCLS) act as intermediaries between the hospital laboratory and various healthcare professionals such as clinicians, residents, physician assistants and nurse practitioners. DCLS need a way to show the value they bring to a healthcare team to improve patient outcomes. "

"Patients (children and adults) need effective evaluation of lung function with the simple and relatively mobile method of oscillometry, measuring airway resistance and identifying causes of breathlessness, in order to reduce symptoms, improve function and quality of life, and reduce the impact of poor air quality and environmental conditions."

"Laboratory professionals need to be knowledgeable about the diagnostic tests available for the diagnosis of parasitic infections, mainly free-living amebae, in order to avoid delayed diagnosis, improve incidence reporting, and reduce mortality."

"Improved laboratory test interpretation and recommendations result in fewer diagnostic errors and more appropriate medical recommendations by clinicians to their patients."

"Persons with disabilities need a way to improve neurological and neuromuscular functions, in order to overcome barriers and live up to their fullest potential."

"Improved measurement of health and care systems combined with meaningful interpretation can impact health practice and lead to improved quality of life, participation and function across the lifespan."

"Medical errors are common and could be avoided with advancements in assistive technology. Yet, we do not aspire to replace clinicians by smart automatic systems or robots, rather we aspire to help medical teams make better decisions systematically and teach the next generation to leverage this technology to improve the quality of care they provide. "

"Professionals in charge of policy and strategic planning need an understanding of healthcare and rehabilitation utilization and outcomes as important quality of care indicators."