Clinical Professor Ellen Cohn delivered the American Occupational Therapy Association’s (AOTA) prestigious Eleanor Clarke Slagle Lecture at the AOTA’s 2019 Conference in New Orleans. The Slagle Lectureship Award is given to an AOTA member who has “substantially and innovatively contributed to the development of the body of knowledge of the profession through research, education, and/or […]
The Food and Drug Administration has cleared Rewalk Robotic’s Exo-Suit for stroke therapy — technology Sargent physical therapy professors Terry Ellis, Lou Awad, and Ken Holt helped develop with engineers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute. Read the article.
(5/2/19, The Daily Free Press) Natasha Hochberg, an associate professor of medicine at Boston University, received a grant last month for a research proposal to study the effects of nutritional interventions on combating tuberculosis in India. The research proposal, titled “Scaling Up Nutritional Interventions to Stop Tuberculosis in India,” will be funded by the BU […]
(3/3/19, The New York Times) Expert Quote: “The restaurants really haven’t done enough. The big picture is that there have been some positive changes, but they’re small, and over all, the changes have gotten worse.” – Research Associate Professor Megan McCrory Read the article
“Start Here: Getting Real About Social Determinants of Health” Presented by Dr. Donald Berwick, President Emeritus and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Watch the Lecture About the speaker Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, FRCP, is president emeritus and senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, which he co-founded and led for […]
(1/29/19, Inside Science) Assistant Professor Tyler Perrachione talks to Inside Science about this new study: Expert quote: “It’s a crazy problem for our auditory system to solve — to figure out how many sounds there are, what they are and where they are,” said Tyler Perrachione, a neuroscientist and linguist from Boston University not involved […]
PhD student Jingyi Wang’s research article on pathways to the hippocampus – in collaboration with Human Physiology Professor Helen Barbas – was featured on the November 21 cover of The Journal of Neuroscience. Read the article.
Cara Stepp, associate professor of speech, language & hearing sciences, has been named a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). The status of Fellow is retained for life and is one of the highest honors ASHA can bestow. This honor recognizes professional or scientific achievement and is given to an ASHA member who has made […]
(5/16/18, WIRED) Assistant Professor Tyler Perrachione talks to WIRED about why some people hear Laurel when playing the now-infamous audio clip and others hear Yanny.
Deepak Kumar, PT, PhD, OCS, has been selected as a 2018 recipient of the Eugene Michels New Investigator Award from the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA). Kumar is an assistant professor in the Department of Physical Therapy & Athletic Training with joint appointments in Sargent’s Department of Health Sciences and the Clinical Epidemiology Research & […]
On April 11, Sargent’s Human Adaptation, Motor Development, and Movement & Applied Imaging labs celebrated the third annual Biomechanics Day, “a world-wide celebration of Biomechanics in its many forms for high school students and teachers.” The labs hosted students from Match Charter High School and Roxbury Youth Orchestra who learned and experienced how our researchers […]
“ReWalk Robotics Ltd., a leading manufacturer of robotic exoskeletons, announced today the official launch of its clinical study of the ReStore soft exo-suit system (ReStore) for the rehabilitation of individuals with lower limb disability due to stroke. The first clinical study participant began using a ReStore last week at the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts where the study […]
(2/20/18, BU Today) “ Lou Awad and Terry Ellis, both Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences assistant professors of physical therapy, are part of the team behind the medical exosuit, a wearable robot that can help people who have had a stroke walk faster, farther, and more safely. Instead of Iron Man’s titanium, it […]
(3/21/18, The Daily Free Press) “For a large portion of her life, Chitra Khare, a graduate student in the Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, has dedicated herself to addressing this issue outside of America, namely by employing individuals with severe mental illness in her hometown of Pune, India. ‘Employment is an answer to […]
Professor Swathi Kiran, PhD, CCC-SLP, in the department of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences was appointed Sargent College Associate Dean for Research. In this role, Kiran will promote Sargent’s research interests across Boston University and beyond. She will oversee creating and supporting research programming for Sargent faculty and students such as grant writing workshops. Kiran […]