Funding Awardees

Clinical Faculty Scholarship Grant

Jennifer Bentley, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Project: Patient Perspectives on Auditory Training: Factors Influencing Awareness, Interest, and Adherence

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Laura Driscoll, Department of Physical Therapy
Project: The Provision of Healthcare for Older Adults in a Massachusetts Jail: Perspectives from Providers

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Mary Beth Holmes, Department of Physical Therapy
Project: Investigating the Nexus of Pain, Fatigue, Distress, and Patient Expectations: Implications for the Optimization of Physical Therapy Care

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Leanne Yinusa-Nyahkoon,Department of Occupational Therapy
Project: Moving Occupational Therapy into Perinatal Care: A Proposed OT/OB Partnership

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Innovations in Teaching and Learning Grant

Caroline Brinkert, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Project: Teaching the Clinical Application of AI to SLP Graduate Students

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Lisa Brown, Department of Physical Therapy
Project: Self-Directed Interactive Learning Modules in Neurologic Physical Therapy

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Student Research Grant

Chi Whan Choi, Ph.D. program in Rehabilitation Sciences

Project: Application of Forward Simulation Framework to Predict Gait Biomechanics in Individuals with Obesity

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Daria Dragicevic, Ph.D. program in Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
Project: Quantifying Which Acoustic and Kinematic Metrics Drive Listener Perception of Articulatory Imprecision in People with Parkinson’s Disease

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Yeook Kim,Ph.D. program in Rehabilitation Sciences
Project: Understanding the Associations between Community Participation and Well-being in Autistic Young Adults

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Sharada Krishnan, Ph.D. program in Rehabilitation Sciences
Project: A Qualitative Investigation of Trauma and Mental Health in Autistic Adolescents

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Juliana Ronderos, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
Project: Bilingual Parents’ Beliefs and Self-Efficacy Perceptions Influencing Parent-Child Shared Reading

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Nicholas Siegel, Didactic Program in Dietetics/Master of Science in Nutrition & Dietetic Internship
Project: Modulation of the Gut Microbiome by Plant-Based Diets and the Associated Risk of Metabolic Syndrome

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Faculty Collaborative Research Development Grant

Robin Newman and Dan Fulford, Department of Occupational Therapy
Project: Connection after Cancer: Social Isolation and Loneliness in the Daily Lives of Cancer Surviving Parents of Young Children

Tenure-Track Faculty Research Grant

Emily Rothman, Department of Occupational Therapy
Project: Abortion law changes and occupational therapy practice in the US

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Clinical Faculty Scholarship Grant

Mary Beth Holmes, Department of Physical Therapy
Project: Exploring the relationship between the therapeutic alliance and patient reported outcome in physical therapy for individuals with knee osteoarthritis

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Karen Hutchinson, Department of Physical Therapy
Project: Can cadence be a proxy measure for exercise intensity post-stroke?

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Shannon Peters, Department of Health Sciences
Project: A pilot project exploring gender-competent care of folx with eating disorders in LGBTQ+ communities

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Faculty Innovation in Teaching and Learning Grant

Alyssa Boucher and Anne Carney, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Project: Mini modules: A just-in-time approach to clinical readiness

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Jesse Moreira, Department of Health Sciences
Project: New course proposal: Clinical measurements of cardiovascular function

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Student Research Grant

Erin Carpenter, Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
Project: Bilingualism as a cognitive reserve factor: The behavioral and neural underpinnings of cognitive control in bilingual aphasia

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Kelsey Davison,Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
Project: Examining parental oral reading prosody in relation to children’s language and emergent literacy skills

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Paris Gappmayr, Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
Project: The role of sign type, sign familiarity, and signer proficiency on gaze patterns during sign perception

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Soyoung Lee, PhD program in Rehabilitation Sciences
Project: Cortical function, gait automaticity, and central sensitization in people with knee osteoarthritis

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Michael Scimeca, Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
Project: Assessment of real-time written sentence processing in bilinguals with aphasia

Faculty Research Grant

Paula Quatromoni, Department of Health Sciences
Project: Building capacity for web-based dietary assessment methodology

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Clinical Faculty Scholarship Grant

Lisa Brown, Department of Physical Therapy and Athletic Training
Project: Key challenges in functional electrical stimulation clinical practice guideline implementation

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Karen Hutchinson, Department of Physical Therapy and Athletic Training
Project: Assessing exercise intensity while walking with sensor-driven musical stimuli post-stroke

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Mary Beth Holmes, Department of Physical Therapy and Athletic Training
Project: How do patients participating in physical therapy for musculoskeletal pain conditions experience common non-specific factors in the patient-provider relationship and perceive their influence on outcomes?

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Robin Newman,Department of Occupational Therapy
Project: Scholarship related to cancer rehabilitation

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Pedro Almeida,Department of Occupational Therapy
Project: Developing a client-centered, occupational-based joint-protection protocol: the feasibility of the CO-OP approach for clients living with hand osteoarthritis

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Faculty Innovation in Teaching and Learning Grant

Leanna Katz,Department of Occupational Therapy
Project: Video case studies to improve occupational therapy students’ clinical reasoning using the rehabilitation treatment specification system (RTSS)

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Pedro Almeida, Department of Occupational Therapy
Project: Orthotics in real life: bridging the gap between classroom and clinic

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Student Research Grant

Jessica Mow, Department of Occupational Therapy
Project: Neural correlates of social motivation and functioning in schizophrenia

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Emily Braun, Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
Project: Behavioral and neural examination of spoken discourse production in individuals with aphasia

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Nirali Shah, PhD In Rehabilitation Sciences
Project: Telehealth exercise and mindfulness for pain in osteoarthritis (TEMPO): a feasibility study

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Arti Gandhi, PhD In Rehabilitation Sciences
Project: Loneliness in schizophrenia: the role of maladaptive social cognitions

Clinical Faculty Scholarship Grant

Tatiana Pontes, Department of Occupational Therapy
Project: Psychometric evaluation of the Occupational Repertoire Development Measure: validity and reliability analysis

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Shelly DeBiasse, Department of Health Sciences
Project: Dress Codes for Dietetics Programs: A Discourse Analysis

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Mary Beth Holmes, Department of Physical Therapy and Athletic Training

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Lisa Brown, Department of Physical Therapy and Athletic Training
Project: A Survey of Clinical Practice and Perceived Needs of Physical Therapist for the Use of Ankle Foot Orthosis and Functional Electrical Stimulation

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Leanne Yinusa-Nyahkoon, Department of Occupational Therapy
Project: CLOTHES: Clinical Lab of Occupational Therapy and Health Equity at Sargent

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Innovations in Teaching and Learning Grant

Alyssa Boucher, Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
Project: From Infused Curriculum to Explicit Teaching: Toward Effective Pedagogy to Promote Antiracist and Inclusive Practices in Speech-Language Pathology

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Dori Hutchinson, Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Project: LEAD Español: A Collegiate Resilience Program for Spanish-speaking BU Students

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Anne Sullivan-Soydan, Department of Occupational Therapy
Project:  Empathy Everywhere

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Shelley Brown, Department of Health Sciences
Project: Developing a Strategic Public Health Workforce at the Undergraduate Level

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Student Research Grant

Anna Roto, PhD program in Rehabilitation Sciences, Department of Physical Therapy and Athletic Training
Project: Enhancing poststroke exercise intensity with a gait-restorative soft robotic exosuit: effects on brain-derived neurotrophic factor and motor learning

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Katherine Marks, doctoral fellow, Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
Project: Validation of a Novel Acoustic Outcome for Adductor Laryngeal Dystonia

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Ran Li, PhD in Speech-Language Pathology, Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
Project: Investigation of language impairment and treatment-induced recovery patterns between verbs and nouns in Mandarin-English bilinguals with aphasia

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Alexandra Kapadia, PhD in Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
Project: Intracortical myelin network organization in dyslexia

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Jenna Zajac, PhD program in Rehabilitation Sciences, Department of Physical Therapy and Athletic Training
Project: MedRhythms: Analysis of Motor Learning and Impact on Gait Performance in Parkinson Disease

Faculty Research Grant

Simone Gill, Department of Occupational Therapy
Project: Increasing Physical Activity in Adults following Bariatric Surgery

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Clinical Faculty Scholarship Grant

Dustin Allen, Department of Health Sciences
Project: Using a Heat Acclimation Protocol to Increase Simulated Firefighter Performance and Cardiovascular Health

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Magdalen Balz, Department of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences
Project: Predictability of cognitive impairment in Parkinson’s disease using discourse analysis

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Lisa Brown, Department of Physical Therapy & Athletic Training
Project: A Survey of Clinical Practice and Perceived Needs of Physical Therapists for the Use of Ankle Foot Orthoses or Functional Electrical Stimulation to Improve Outcomes Post-Stroke

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Malwina Carrion, Department of Health Sciences
Project: Chagas Disease in Massachusetts: Raising Awareness in At-Risk Populations through a Comprehensive Public Health Campaign

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Mary Beth Holmes, Department of Physical Therapy & Athletic Training
Project: Empathy in Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) training

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Elizabeth Hoover, Department of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences
Project: Beyond complete utterances: A pilot study to explore the use of PICA scoring in narratives of people with aphasia

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Robin Newman, Department of Occupational Therapy
Project: Eliciting Patient and Caregiver Perspectives to Guide Supportive Program Development in Community Based Oncology Settings

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Innovation in Teaching and Learning Grant

Joan Salge Blake, Department of Health Sciences
Project: Plan, produce, and record episodes for the nutrition, health, and wellness podcast, Spot On!

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Kaytlin Eldred, Department of Health Sciences
Project: HS 4** Advanced Research

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Craig Slater, Department of Occupational Therapy
Project: Course development for a new ‘Interprofessional Leadership in Healthcare’ Certificate

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Student Research Grant

Ariel Schwartz, Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Project: Identifying socially valid content and intervention features for sexuality and sexual health education for young adults with intellectual/developmental disabilities