- Cancer Survivorship Center
- Neurocognitive Rehabilitation Research Lab
- Biomotion Lab
- Neurorehabilitation Laboratory
- Neuroscience Wet Lab
- Cadaver Lab
- Rehabilitation and Epidemiology Trainee Program
- Teaching and Learning Innovation Laboratory
Grants Received
Dr. Ann Marie Flores has recently joined us from Vanderbilt University Medical Center where she led and developed the Rehabilitation Oncology Program in the Department of Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation. Her research focuses on cancer survivorship, women's health and health disparities. She is the Principal Investigator of the Southern Community Cancer Survivorship Study (NCI/NIH #7R21CA137483-03). The study targets breast cancer survivors in the southern United States with special emphasis on physical and functional well being. She has received funding from the National Cancer Institute/National Institutes of Health, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, University of Maryland System, and the U.S. Department of Education.
Dr. Plummer-D’Amato received a $308,000 4-year new scientist Development Grant from the American Heart Association to conduct a randomized controlled trial entitled, “Training dual task walking after stroke: effects on attentional and locomotor control”. The grant involves collaboration with Dr. Dagmar Sternad, Dr. Bijan Najafi, and the outpatient physical therapy department at New England Rehabilitation Hospital in Woburn, MA. The study will compare the effects of single-task and dual-task gait training on attention allocation and locomotor performance in community-dwelling stroke survivors.
Dr. Lorna Hayward was awarded a grant of $20,200 from the Kenneth B. Schwartz Center Fund of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). The title of the grant is "Creating a Culturally Competent and Inter-professional Aware Health Care Environment within the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital." The grant will enable patients to share their stories about their experiences with care at SRH. The stories will become a DVD that will be used in an educational module designed to assist with the training of culturally competent and compassionate care givers.
Publications
Drench M, Noonan A, Sharby N, Ventura S. Psychosocial Aspects of Health Care, Edition Three, Pearson Prentice Hall, 2012
Hayward L, Cahalin L. Markowski A, Hickey M. A cardiopulmonary instructor's perspective on a standardized patient experience: Implications for cardiopulmonary physical therapy education. Cardiopulmonary Physical Therapy Journal, Sept, 2011
Iversen MD, Chudasama N, Losina E, Katz JN. Influence of Limb Length Discrepancy on Function and Satisfaction Following Total Hip Replacement. J Geriatric Phys Ther 2011; DOI: 10.1519/JPT.0b013e31820e16dc
Guillemin F, Iversen MD, Rat AC, Osborne R, Peterson IF. Non pharmacologic interventions need Outcomes for Evaluating Complex Interventions in Rheumatic Diseases. J Rheumatol (In press, 2011)
