{"id":47079,"date":"2017-01-31T14:37:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T19:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/?p=47079"},"modified":"2018-02-21T16:01:28","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T21:01:28","slug":"pt-faculty-honored-with-new-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/pt-faculty-honored-with-new-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"PT Faculty Honored with New Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several faculty in the department of Physical Therapy & Athletic Training<\/a> were honored with prestigious grants from Boston University this semester.<\/p>\n

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Lou Awad, PT, DPT, PhD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lou Awad, PT, DPT, PhD<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Assistant Professor Lou Awad<\/a> was awarded an Integrated Pilot Grant from the Boston University Clinical and Translational Science Institute<\/a> for his\u00a0research on\u00a0“Integrating Computer Vision with Wearable Sensors to Advance Targeted Locomotor Retraining.” Awad is examining\u00a0the feasibility of merging two sensing modalities\u2014computer vision and body-worn inertial sensors\u2014to advance post-stroke gait rehabilitation.\u00a0He is\u00a0collaborating with co-PI\u00a0Assistant Professor Roberto Tron<\/a>\u00a0from BU’s department of Mechanical Engineering.<\/p>\n

Awad\u00a0is also\u00a0an a<\/span>ssociate faculty member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and a\u00a0research faculty member at Harvard University’s<\/span> Stroke Research and Recovery Institute at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital.\u00a0He is\u00a0the d<\/span>irector of Boston University’s Neuromotor Recovery Laboratory<\/a>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Julie Keysor, PhD, PT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Julie Keysor,\u00a0PhD, PT<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Associate Professor and Director of BU Center for Enhancing Activity and Participation among Persons with Arthritis<\/a> (ENACT)\u00a0<\/span>Julie Keysor<\/a>\u00a0received an award from the\u00a0Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research<\/a> on BU’s Medical Campus.<\/p>\n

Keysor’s grant will help fund her work at the new\u00a0Mobile and Electronic Health Affinity Research Collaborative <\/a>(ARC), where she serves as co-director. This ARC is\u00a0an inter-disciplinary collaboration that seeks to conduct state-of-the art research and training in mobile and electronic health to improve the health of underserved populations across the lifespan.\u00a0Keysor’s project brings together researchers from across Boston University\u2014including ARC co-directors\u00a0Assistant Professor Lisa Quintiliani<\/a> <\/span>at the School of Medicine,\u00a0Professor Belinda Borrelli<\/a>\u00a0at the School of Dental Medicine, and colleagues from the College of Engineering\u2014to advance mHealth and eHealth initiatives.<\/p>\n

Keysor is also the\u00a0PI for one of three pilot projects\u00a0to build effective mHealth and eHealth applications. Keysor\u2019s project, \u201cDevelopment of a Novel e-Health App for Knee OA Exercise Adherence,\u201d will explore user preferences to develop features of a mobile application to support adherence to physical activity programs among people with OA. Based on this feedback, investigators will develop a prototype and intervention program followed by user testing.<\/p>\n

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Deepak Kumar, PT, PhD, OCS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Deepak Kumar, PT, PhD, OCS<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Assistant Professor Deepak Kumar<\/a><\/span>\u00a0received an Integrated Pilot Grant from the Boston University Clinical and Translational Science Institute<\/a>\u00a0for his project “Quantitative Tool for Assessment of Varus Thrust in Knee Osteoarthritis.” Kumar is developing\u00a0a clinical tool for identification and quantification of varus thrust in people with knee osteoarthritis,\u00a0ultimately using this tool to\u00a0identify interventions to reduce varus thrust in this population.<\/p>\n

Kumar is collaborating with co-investigators\u00a0Dr. David Felson<\/a> and Dr. Ali Guermazi<\/a> from the\u00a0BU School of Medicine, Dr. Michael LaValley <\/a>from BU School of Public Health, and Professor Jim Richards at the University of Central Lancashire.<\/p>\n

Kumar holds a joint appointment\u00a0as assistant professor\u00a0at the\u00a0BU<\/span>\u00a0School of Medicine and\u00a0is the director of BU’s\u00a0Movement & Applied Imaging Lab<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Several faculty in the department of Physical Therapy & Athletic Training were honored with prestigious grants from Boston University this semester. Lou Awad, PT, DPT, PhD Assistant Professor Lou Awad was awarded an Integrated Pilot Grant from the Boston University Clinical and Translational Science Institute for his\u00a0research on\u00a0“Integrating Computer Vision with Wearable Sensors to Advance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11023,"featured_media":49741,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4994,5047,5045,5046,5005],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11023"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47079"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51963,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47079\/revisions\/51963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}