UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation NEWS BULLETIN 2022
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CU PHYSICAL MEDICINE & REHABILITATION Venu Akuthota, MD Professor & Chair Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
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Letter from the Chair Dear colleagues, Reflecting on 2021, it was a transformative year of re-birth. Our faculty and staff emerged from the 2020 shutdown with the fervor to return to our core. It was soon to become our most clinically productive year, even though we added few faculty. Our large educational mission encompassing physical therapy, graduate medical education, and medical school training continued into the frontiers of online curriculum, zoom meetings, and distance mentorship. With a resilient cadre of superstar principal investigators, our research programs continued to push us toward a top 5 PM&R research department. When speaking to prospective residents, faculty, and hospital leaders, it is helpful to remind them what makes CU PM&R different: • We have the best of all worlds with a tertiary university hospital, county trauma hospital, specialized free standing child health and rehabilitation hospitals, and a regional VA with multiple service lines. • Federally-funded research base producing new rehabilitation knowledge (with a Blue Ridge NIH Ranking of #5). • World class faculty and trainees • Doctorate programs in Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences with innovative online education. • Growing faculty with expanding clinical and educational programs. If 2021 was an opportunity to be resilient, or even anti-fragile, our post-pandemic years promise to be a time to re-connect, engage with our academic mission, and expand. This annual bulletin reminds us of the tremendous amount of work delivered in 2021. Thank you for growing the value of rehabilitation. Sincerely,
Venu Akuthota, MD Professor and Chair, Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, School of Medicine
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Jennifer Stevens Lapsley, PT, PhD $1,795,402
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CU PM&R AT THE OLYMPICS Welcoming Jonathan Finnoff
The University of Colorado School of Medicine Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation welcomes Jonathan Finnoff, DO, FACSM, FAMSSM, RMSK to our faculty in July 2022, where he will be working one day a week at the Inverness UCHealth Steadman Hawkins Clinic in Englewood, CO. Dr. Finnoff joins us from the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science in Rochester, MN. Dr. Finnoff is board certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine. Dr. Finnoff has published over 100 articles in peer reviewed journals, authored multiple book chapters, and co-edited a book with Mark Harrast, MD, titled “Sports Medicine: Study Guide and Review for Boards”. In addition, Dr. Finnoff is the Chief Medical Officer for the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee.
Get to know more about Jonathan Finnoff: You have a bachelor’s from CU Boulder; are you excited to be back in Colorado? Absolutely! I’m actually a 3rd generation Coloradan, was born and raised in Boulder, and my whole family still lives in the state. So, this was a true homecoming.
What was the role that you played during the Olympics? I served as the Chief Medical Officer for the United States Olympic and Paralympic Teams during the Summer and Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo and Beijing, respectively. It has been an incredible honor to serve in this role, work with amazing health care professionals from around the country and take care of the best athletes in the World. Go Team USA!
“CU is a fantastic medical center that can provide exceptional, comprehensive medical care for our athletes. I love working in a team environment with the infrastructure and expertise required to take care of athletes with complex problems.”
Tell us about the type of work you will be doing at the Steadman Hawkins clinic starting this summer? I am a Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation physician with sub-specialization in Sports Medicine. While I love seeing athletes of all ages and athletic abilities for sports related injuries from their head to their toes, the areas I am best known for are related to the evaluation and treatment of athletes with exertional leg pain, and diagnostic and interventional sports ultrasound procedures. I have developed and/or am proficient in multiple ultrasound-guided surgical techniques, such as carpal tunnel, cubital tunnel, DeQuervains, trigger finger, and iliotibial band releases, and fasciotomies to name a few. These procedures are minimally invasive, which reduces the risk of complications, increases patient comfort, improves patient satisfaction, costs less money, and dramatically reduces recovery time. These are game changers in sports medicine.
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Jonathan Finnoff, DO, FACSM, FAMSSM, RMSK
What drew you to sports medicine? I was a professional athlete before deciding to go into medicine, so it was a natural path for me when I chose medicine as a career.
What are you most looking forward to about joining the CU PM&R faculty? CU is a fantastic medical center that can provide exceptional, comprehensive medical care for our athletes. I love working in a team
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environment with the infrastructure and expertise required to take care of athletes with complex problems. Further, I am passionate about teaching and am very excited to work with the residency and fellowship programs. They’re going to keep me young, focused, and inspired to keep learning. I have numerous research projects that I’m excited to embark upon with residents, fellows, and other faculty members. Answering questions that impact the medicine of tomorrow is important to me. Finally, I have many friends on faculty at CU and I am excited to work side by side with them to provide the best possible care to our patients.
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CU PM&R Faculty Pam Wilson MEMBER COMPETES IN THE PARALYMPICS Pam Wilson, MD, was your typical recreational athlete before the 1978 car accident that left her partially paralyzed and using a wheelchair for mobility, but after the accident, sports became a vital part of her recovery — a way to strive, compete, improve, and measure her progress as she went through physical therapy and rehabilitation. “Sports was a really big deal,” says Wilson, who competed in basketball, track and field, and swimming in the years immediately following the accident and even was a national skiing champion. “It probably saved my life in some ways.” Wilson thought about competing in the Paralympics at that point in her life, but something else was calling her even more strongly — medical school. She received her degree from the University of Colorado School of Medicine in 1989 as one of the first medical students in the country to go through their classes, internship, and residency in a wheelchair. Wilson, who now works in the Department of Pediatric Rehabilitation at Children’s Hospital Colorado, has always had a love of sports, but she recently reawakened that competitive part she had missed. She has been training in the winter sport of curling, in which teams of four people use specialized brooms to guide the path of a stone as it glides over the ice to a target. Wilson, a regular presence at the Denver Curling Club, traveled to Beijing in October for the wheelchair curling world championships. After her victory there, she was named to the 2021 Team USA Paralympic team for the sport. She returned with her team to Beijing in March to compete against the best curlers from around the world. For Wilson, it’s a chance to answer some questions about what could have been. “After my accident, I came to a place in my life where I could have gone on and tried to excel in my sporting career, or I could go to medical school, and I chose the path of going to medical school,” she says. “But there was always this lingering sense of, ‘Should I have waited a little bit longer and seen if I could have been a Paralympian back then?’ But that was not the path I chose at that point in my life. And I’ve always wondered if I could do it or not. With this new sport of curling, I have a chance to come back and close up some loops in my sporting career.” Wilson was one of five curlers on the U.S. wheelchair curling team; they won the Worlds “B” competition in Finland in April, defeating Switzerland in the final round to advance to the World Finals in Beijing. At the Paralympic Winter Games in Beijing, Team USA ranked fifth place — tied for its second-best finish ever — with an even 5-5 record after splitting its final two matches at the National Aquatics Centre. The team just missed qualifying for the semifinals, finishing two games out of the fourth and final playoff spot. For Wilson, the sport offers social as well as athletic benefits. “It’s a super-cool sport because, first off, it’s a sport for everyone,” Wilson says. “Anybody can curl at any level, so if you have bad knees or something, you still can do curling. Curling also develops a community, because you’re playing against all these people, but after you’re done curling, you all hang out and talk. There’s a real sense of community that you don’t get in some other types of sports.” 6
Dr. Pam Wilson (far left) with the US wheelchair curling team.
Wilson values that sense of community in her work at Children’s Hospital, as well — she even took some of her colleagues at the hospital to the Denver Curling Club recently so they could get a taste of what the sport is all about. She sees other similarities between her work as a doctor and her work on the ice, among them focus, teamwork, and communication. “It’s super important that you communicate on the ice and talk about what you’re doing, and it’s important in clinic that we communicate with the families exactly what pathway we’re going to be on,” she says. “Having fun is important too. I have fun in the curling rink, and I have fun when I work with families in clinic. There are a lot of positives both ways.” As a specialist in pediatric rehabilitation medicine, Wilson often works with children who have disabilities. She shares her experiences with them as inspiration for them to envision a life where they aren’t defined by their disability. “Sports was super important for me in making the transition to being a person with a disability,” she says. “One of the things I hope to do is to inspire some of the kids I work with to think beyond the disability and think about other things they can do with their life. Sports is just one of the options for them. It could be theater or something like that. We always want the kids to optimize the things they’re doing in life and not let their disability hold them back.” In preparation for the Paralympics, Wilson and her teammates got together to train once a month, working individually in their home cities the rest of the time. Wilson was on the ice at the Denver Curling Club or the new Rock Creek Curling in Lafayette at least four times a week. The team also got together online regularly to talk about strategies and run game simulations. Wilson and all of her teammates wanted to be ready for the contest that is the ultimate goal of every athlete with a disability. “This Paralympic experience, to me, is like climbing Mount Everest,” she says. “I’ve been planning this journey for a long time, and finally being able to do it is like summiting Everest. I can’t tell you how excited I am about making this team.” PHYSICAL MEDICINE & REHABILITATION
The Center for Osseointegration
AN INTERVIEW WITH KATE PAYNE, MD
The Center for Osseointegration, founded by Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Kate Payne, MD, and Chief of Orthopedic Trauma and Fracture Surgery at the University of Colorado Hospital, Jason Stoneback, MD, began accepting patients in the fall of 2019. Dr. Payne earned her medical degree from Saint Louis University School of Medicine and completed residency at Case Western Reserve University – Cleveland Clinic Foundation – MetroHealth Medical Center Program in Cleveland, OH. CU Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation is proud of this groundbreaking technology that changes the lives of amputation patients.
What is osseointegration? Osseointegration is a surgical procedure that establishes permanent placement of an artificial limb by creating a connection directly to the bone to of the amputated extremity. A metal implant is inserted into the amputated extremity bone, and the connector passes through the skin. The patient’s prosthesis can then be directly attached to the connector.
How does it benefit patients/change patient’s lives? Osseointegration has a profound impact on patients’ lives. It is truly a game changer for patients with amputation. Osseointegration eliminates the need for a prosthetic socket, which is a common source of pain and skin irritation for patients. It allows patients to have improved stability with standing and walking. Patients can walk further, walk comfortably, and walk with exceptional gait mechanics. In addition, patients are now able to sit comfortably. Osseointegration also allows for a sensation called osseoperception in which patients can feel the terrain on which they are walking through their prosthesis.
How many patients does the center assist annually? As of March 2022, we have had 52 patients undergo osseointegration. There has been a mix of patients with either above knee or below knee amputations. In addition, several patients have bilateral lower extremity amputations, and osseointegration was performed on both limbs.
What makes a patient a good candidate for osseointegration? Osseointegration is a tremendous opportunity for anyone who has struggled to achieve a good fit with a traditional prosthetic socket. Patients who experience pain or skin irritation from their socket, sudden loosening or slipping of the socket, or difficulty sitting, standing, or walking due to inability to achieve good socket fit are all good candidates for osseointegration.
What are the center’s goals, mission, and future vision? Our mission is to improve quality of life for people who have experienced limb loss. By eliminating the challenges of a prosthetic socket, patients are empowered to return to their everyday life. Our goal is to continue to provide outstanding care and excellent outcomes while pioneering advanced surgical techniques and rehabilitation strategies in the field of osseointegration. As we continue to champion expertise in osseointegration, it is our vision that osseointegration will be the future standard of care for patients undergoing amputation.
What else would you like others to know about the center? Our program offers a highly integrated team of experts to guide our patients through their entire experience. Led by our Orthopedic Surgeon, Dr. Stoneback, our team includes myself as a Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation physician, a prosthetist, physical therapists, athletic trainers, nurses, social workers, peer supporters, and research specialists. Our team not only directs the clinical care through the initial osseointegration process, but also closely coordinates the patient’s transition back to the care of their local team of medical providers.
Katherine Payne, MD
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GET TO KNOW CORY CHRISTIANSEN, PT, PHD
Professor, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Dr. Cory Christiansen received his BS from Colorado State University, MS from Duke University, and PhD from the University of Northern Colorado. Dr. Christiansen was ranked 45th in the United States for NIH funding for Physical Medicine according to the Blue Ridge Institute.
What was your educational and career background prior to coming to CU and the VA? My clinical training is as a physical therapist and my research training is in exercise science, with an emphasis in the study of human biomechanics. I am interested in the physics and physiology interaction that leads to human movement. The work I do is translated to physical rehabilitation as I strive to create new ways for people to improve their own movement and physical function. My educational training has led me to direct clinical research focused on helping people with chronic movement challenges.
What inspired you to pursue a career in physical therapy? I am inspired by helping others to engage in life activities. I have a passion for understanding how and why each of us moves the way we do and how I can optimize rehabilitation interventions to support people in achieving life goals. My clinical research focuses specifically on helping people who have long-standing physical limitations and advances clinical knowledge for broad clinical application to physical therapists and other rehabilitation experts.
What drew you to CU and the VA? I have a split appointment between the CU and the VA. The strong clinical research environment on the Anschutz Medical Campus is one of many factors that drew me to work here. It is fulfilling to work in an environment with so many others who are dedicated to optimizing physical rehabilitation practice and helping others. Specifically, the educational environment here lends itself to working with very motivated and talented people, both on the research and clinical side. I feel constantly challenged in a way that I look forward to work. It would be hard to not have fun with this work when working with such talented and inspiring people. It is encouraging to know that the work we do makes a difference in the lives of others, at many levels.
What research endeavors are you currently engaged in? We have several areas of study that surround the idea of optimizing human movement for people dealing with chronic health challenges. Most of the focus for my lab is currently on testing interventions designed to help people living with lower-limb loss. Both at CU and the VA we are engaged in clinical trials that deliver novel interventions to improve physical health, activity, and life participation for people who have lost a limb. We specifically focus on interventions that provide people support for making life changes, such as sustained exercise, that improve their physical health.
Is there an area of research that you are particularly passionate about? The newest lines of research for our team relate to rehabilitation after a novel surgery that implants a prosthesis directly into the bone of 8
an amputated limb. I have been fortunate to work with very talented people in the orthopedics, physical medicine, and mechanical engineering departments as we drive this line of research. We also are working directly with people who have lost a limb, as they have the most experience and pertinent information to drive the research. In my role, I help lead the clinical research team to better understand the value of bone-anchored prosthesis (also known as osseointegrated prosthesis) in terms of physical function and quality of life. Traditionally, lower-limb prostheses have been fit to a person through highly specialized sockets that fit over the residual limb after amputation. With the new bone-anchored prostheses, the prostheses (or artificial limbs) are attached directly to the bone of the amputated limb. This procedure removes many problems and barriers of fitting a prosthetic socket, which have historically limited the physical progress people can make after limb loss. Of special interest, we are looking at the influence of the bone-anchored prosthesis on the quality and quantity of daily movement. There is much to be learned with this line of research and it is a privilege to work with such a highly motivated and productive team of clinical researchers as we create new knowledge.
What has COVID-19 taught you about delivery of care for patients? Prior to the pandemic, we had been conducting research to optimize telerehabilitation for people with complex health conditions. We realized that to reach people who have been traditionally underserved in rehabilitation that we needed to decrease barriers to healthcare access. As a result of talking with patients and clinicians, we designed a rehabilitation line of studies to meet people at their homes or remote clinics to deliver exercise and physical activity interventions. Much of this work was done through video and telephone conferencing. When the pandemic changed everyone’s daily life, we realized an even greater potential for our telerehabilitation interventions. We were able to shift our home-based telerehabilitation studies to better meet the needs of patient participants who were then faced with pandemic restrictions that made for even less clinician access. The pandemic has taught us better the ways we must leverage technology and rehabilitation science knowledge to better meet people where they are, not just emotionally and mentally, but physically. It has been affirming to our lab group that we are focused on the right direction of getting rehabilitation intervention and technology beyond labs and clinics and into the environments where people live and perform daily work and recreation activity.
Outside of research and education, what do you enjoy doing in your personal time? I am engaged with all types of outdoor activities and enjoy being with my family. I have a wife and three children, two who are now out of the house, who I spend my time with when I am not working. I grew up in Colorado and spend time in the mountains as my main pasttime, particularly with fly fishing. PHYSICAL MEDICINE & REHABILITATION
GET TO KNOW NOEL SO, MD
Assistant Professor, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation What drew you to amputation care? Like many clinicians in healthcare, serving my patients is an honor, and a gift I give to myself. My patients inspire me to be better for them. Amputation Rehabilitation was a subspecialty that allowed me to use all my skill sets learned during residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. I love working in an interdisciplinary team of expertise care, understanding the relationships in body movements both with gait and overuse injuries, helping patients navigate their specific psychosocial and environmental barriers, facilitating neuroplasticity, and addressing pain using ultrasound diagnostics and procedural skills. I am always learning in this field, and Amputation Rehabilitation keeps developing to new levels that can really make a difference to those with limb loss. I am excited to be part of this mission.
specific data dashboards for further programmatic evaluation and quality improvement projects. I serve as a founding member on the VA National Amputee Research and Innovation workgroup. Most recently, we were selected as a national referral site in the VA for osseointegration. Developing this highly specialized program takes much collaboration between many departments, and it is great how much support we have at the Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center to make this a success and offer our veterans in the near future. So, in summary, “busy” is the how I would describe my day-today work.
How has your practice of medicine adapted to COVID, and what changes do you see as permanent?
In undergrad, I was a Sociology major, political science minor, pre-med student, and physics tutor. I think that reflects my early interest in my love of the basic sciences and how it blended with real world influencers of health. I completed my residency training at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. From there, I joined a group practice briefly, and then opened my private practice. It was difficult for me to treat patients differently based on what their insurances would or would not cover. It was difficult for me to advocate for my patients to others who did not understand the impacts of their policies on the patients. While I loved my private practice and what we were able to accomplish for my patients, there were parts of me that were unfulfilled. I knew I could do more. I wanted to serve patients to the best of my capabilities, without the constraints of predetermined non-personalized insurance developed protocols. I wanted to teach future clinicians about the impact they can have on their own patients with and without major limb loss. I wanted to advance the field of amputation rehabilitation through research and quality improvement projects. I wanted my curiosity to continuously be sparked and be immersed in an academic environment. These were the major reasons I closed my private practice to work for the VA with my academic appointment at the University of Colorado.
Fortunately for our team, we expanded our existing telehealth clinics in 2018 to treat our veterans that lived far from our clinic. When COVID hit, we had a seamless transition to continue to deliver clinical care, without any drop in our patient encounters and appointments. In 2019, we were still expanding our telehealth practices to also include telehealth to community prosthetists’ offices. When COVID hit, and in-person appointments were restricted at the VA, this platform allowed the team to communicate to all involved parties in real time, expediting care needed for those with limb threat during a time preventative cares were hindered in other subspecialities due to the barriers to access. We still have a robust telehealth clinic practice, with 52% of our encounters completed through telehealth platforms. We are still expanding. I recently received funding to develop an asynchronized telehealth platform to expand amputee telehealth service with anticipated full launch in Fiscal Year 23. We are also working on app-based bio-behavioral interventions for amputation rehabilitation.
How would you describe your day-to-day work?
What career accomplishments are you most proud of?
What is your educational and career background prior to coming to CU and the VA?
It is busy! We are one of 7 designated VA Regional Amputation Rehabilitation Centers across the nation. The Rocky Mountain Regional Amputation Center is responsible for VISNs 19, 15, and 17, and spans the largest geographic region across the National Amputee System of Care. In addition to the day-to-day patient care, teaching residents, engineers, medical students, and therapy students, we are responsible for programmatic development locally, at the regional level, and at the national level. We are a Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) internationally accredited amputation rehabilitation program of excellence. I lead the VISN19 Amputation Community of Practice, to help develop and implement limb procurement policies for efficiency of delivery. I lead the VA National High Performance and Efficiency workgroup where we are developing the standardized outcomes for amputee telehealth care across the VA, as well as development of amputee NEWS BULLETIN 2021
I am not sure of any specific accomplishments I am proud of. It is not so much the destination in my career, as much as it is the journey for me that is fulfilling. I am proud of all the things we do day-to-day through clinical, administrative, and academic practices to help our patients.
What does it mean to you to work with veterans? The veterans I serve truly are inspirational and allow me to be a better version of myself. Each veteran helps me take care of the next veteran. I learn from them. I see resiliency, adaptability, courage, vulnerability in them. I enjoy connecting with them and helping them on their journey to be the best version of themselves. I want to know that because of our interaction, we are both for the better, and that it is meaningful in some bigger picture sort of way. 9
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Alumni Spotlight What’s your educational background?
I went to the Johns Hopkins University for undergrad and stayed in Baltimore for medical school at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. I did my internship there before joining CU for my Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation residency. After graduating CU, I completed a fellowship in Sports Medicine at the University of Washington. I am a fellow of the American Academy of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (FAAPMR) and I have a Certificate of Added Qualification in Sports Medicine (CAQSM).
What are you currently doing? I work as a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine. I am an attending physician in our Sports & Spine division. I also serve as Associate Program Director for our PM&R residency program. My work is split between clinical and administrative duties. On the clinical side, I see patients with musculoskeletal injuries across a range of ages and abilities.
Why did you decide to pursue physical medicine & rehabilitation? I believe strongly in helping empower people to reach their activity goals. Some people want to be a Major League pitcher and others want to be able to pick up their grandchild. I help get people to that point. It’s also difficult to find a more welcoming field of physicians.available to me after residency.
How did your CU residency prepare you for your career today? I can’t speak highly enough of the faculty at CU. The mentors I had at CU inspired me to pursue the career I have today. I entered fellowship with excellent musculoskeletal knowledge, clinical experience, and procedural training.
What is your specialty within PM&R? Sports Medicine/Musculoskeletal Medicine
What part of your job do you find most rewarding? Working with residents. There is nothing better than seeing a mentee succeed.
How does your current position correspond to where you envisioned yourself as you finished residency? I knew I wanted to stay in academics. I’ve been very fortunate to acquire leadership roles at UW, and I’ve been extra fortunate to work under some excellent mentors who have helped guide that success.
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focus on function and the importance that was placed on the
What career accomplishments are you most proud of? I’m proud to represent our residency as an Associate Program Director. I’m proud of my original research in rock climbing medicine – I have ongoing projects and publications in this area. I’m most proud of what my mentees have accomplished, from highly successful fellowship matches to landing great jobs.
patient experience. I was also excited to have an opportunity to work across the continuum of medical care and have multiple avenues of practice available to me after residency.”
Do you have any advice for current residents? Please be patient with Dr. Laker; he’s doing his best. Please complete your duty hours and log your procedures. Please stop reading this for one second and respond to that email from Mallory. CU residents are fortunate to be working with some of the best people in our field. Engage with those faculty members as much as you can. Try to get involved with national committees. Take some time to reflect on your journey through medicine. Residency turns out to be way shorter than you think; you’ll be done before you know it.
How have you adapted your practice of medicine to the COVID-19 pandemic? COVID-19? Never heard of it. No, I’d say more than anything I’ve learned to be flexible. We’ve had to close clinics, reschedule procedures, convert appointments to telemedicine, and we’ve had to take care of patients suffering the effects of post-acute sequela of COVID.
What do you enjoy doing in your personal time? My daughters keep me busy. We take advantage of all the pacific northwest has to offer hiking, skiing, enjoying the beach. I’ve also been hitting up the driving range so I can challenge Dr. Akuthota to a round of 18 someday. #goals
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welcoming DANIELLE MELTON, MD The University of Colorado School of Medicine Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation will be welcoming Dr. Danielle Melton to our faculty in July 2022. She will help expand the UCHealth Osseointegration Clinical Program with Dr. Jason Stoneback, in the Department of Orthopedics, and Dr. Kate Payne, Medical Director of the UCHealth inpatient rehabilitation unit. Dr. Melton joins us from The University of Texas Medical School at Houston (UTHealth) where she is board certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Associate Professor in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery. She is the Director of the Limb Loss (Amputee) Program at Memorial Herman – The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research (TIRR-MH), internationally recognized as one of the leading rehabilitation programs. Dr. Melton received her undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Louisiana State University and completed medical school and residency at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Melton specializes in the rehabilitation of Orthopedic Trauma with an emphasis on non-surgical management of patients with limb salvage and amputation encompassing pre-prosthetic or bracing management, prosthetic design and prescription, rehabilitation and pain management following patients long-term to provide comprehensive continuity of care. Dr. Melton serves as co-chair for the Limb Restoration Rehabilitation Group of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, on the advisory board for BCM Orthotics and Prosthetics program, Scientific Medical Advisory Committee of the Amputee Coalition championing Medicare Physician Documentation and Limb Loss Prevention Task Force to create an Amputee Model Systems. She also serves on the board for Rehabilitation Services Volunteer Program as Amputee Director providing under and non-resourced patients with limb loss much needed equipment, prosthetics and therapy. Her research involves novel approaches to treating phantom limb pain and neuromas, limb salvage with Major Extremity Trauma Research Consortium (METRC) and innovations in prosthetic components. She was selected as the scientific chair for the NIH funded/ Mayo Clinic PI for the Limb Loss and Preservation Registry. Dr. Melton is recognized internationally as a medical expert in her field, frequently invited as a guest lecturer to national and international conferences on topics including Creating A Model System of Amputee Care, Bridging the Gap between Military and Civilian Care, Innovative Surgical Techniques for Amputations including Osseo-Integration and Targeted Muscle Re-innervation, Best Practices for Upper Limb Prosthetic Evaluation. Dr. Melton has been selected by her peers to “Best Doctors in America” since 2009; “America’s Top Physicians” since 2010, a selection by the Consumer’s Research Council of America. She has been listed among “Texas Super Doctors Rising Stars 2013” peer recognized in professional achievement and Houston’s Top Doctors since 2014, Texas Super Doctors since 2014 and International Physician Leaders of the World. Dr. Melton’s valuable expertise will be a tremendous asset to CU PM&R!
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welcoming NEW FACULTY IN 2022! CU PM&R is growing rapidly, and we are excited for all the new faculty who will be joining our team! We will be sharing many of their stories in next year’s annual bulletin: • A llison Alessandra, DO - Interventional Pain Medicine, General MSK and Electromyography, VA • Z achary Arcona, PsyD, MS – Pediatric Psychologist • T aylor Bashore, MS, BSN, FNP-BC, RN – Nurse Practitioner focusing on Denver and South Metro area (Started in 2021) • D ominique Chao, PsyD – Rehabilitation Psychologist (Department of Psychiatry) • K elsey Darlington, MD – Spinal Cord Injury Medicine, VA • L auren Desmarais, DO – Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine, Colorado Springs • F ranchesca König, MD – Cancer Rehabilitation • A nne Lehan, MSN, AGNP – Nurse Practitioner focusing on Denver and Boulder • D anielle Melton, MD – Amputation Medicine • D ebra Petersen, APRN, MBA, MSN – Nurse Practitioner, Broomfield (Started in 2021) • V era Staley, MD – Spinal Cord Injury Medicine, Denver Health • K yle Stoffers, MD, MBA – Spine and Regenerative Medicine (Started in 2021) • W illiam White, DO – Spine, EMG, Inpatient Rehab • J ordan Wywra, DO – Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine
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welcoming faculty member
TOBY KINNEY
The University of Colorado Physical Therapy Program (CU PT) welcomes Toby Kinney, PT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT, MBA, PhD(c) as a Senior Instructor. “We’re excited to have Dr. Kinney join the CU PT faculty,” said Program Director Michael HarrisLove, PT, MPT, DSc, FGSA. “Not only is he a skilled orthopedic physical therapist, but he also has previous experience as a faculty member and is well-versed in our musculoskeletal curriculum.” Dr. Kinney has extensive orthopedic physical therapy experience in hospital-based and private practice settings. He has been involved in physical therapy education since 2007, initially working as a lab instructor at Touro College in New York. He made the transition full-time to academics as a Clinical Assistant Professor with Sacred Heart University in 2010, then the University of Montana (2011-2015). He has been a Clinical Instructor with the University of Colorado since 2016. “Over the last five years, I have been fortunate to work part-time with the talented, student-centered CU PT faculty,” noted Dr. Kinney. “I am delighted to transition to core CU faculty and contribute on a more consistent basis to educating exceptional student physical therapists.” Dr. Kinney’s expertise is in orthopedic physical therapy, post-concussion rehabilitation and using video assessment for clinician development. His interest in best practices in educational curriculum, assessment, and delivery led him to pursue a Doctor of Philosophy in Health Professions Education. He obtained his Master of Science in Physical Therapy from New York Medical College, a Master of Business Administration from Duke University, and a Post-Professional Doctor of Physical Therapy from Washington University. Dr. Kinney completed a Fellowship in Manual Physical Therapy at Regis University and expects to complete his PhD in 2023. Harris-Love added, “With Dr. Kinney in the final phases of his PhD program, I anticipate that he will be an important contributor to our Educational Scholarship Group and help shape our approach to PT education for many years to come.”
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STUDIES MUSCLE QUALITY AND OBESITY AT 3MAP LAB Post-doctoral fellow Stephan Bodkin, PhD, has been investigating the impact of intramuscular adipose tissue, or fat, that is deposited within and between skeletal muscle, on lower extremity strength in obese adults. Dr. Bodkin is a University of Colorado T32 Integrative Physiology of Aging trainee at the Muscle Morphology, Mechanics, and Performance Laboratory (3MAP Lab). Individuals in the lab have performed novel work investigating how fat within skeletal muscle may accentuate the age-related declines in physical function. Dr. Bodkin’s project is a collaboration with 3MAP Lab and the Department of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes. In the current study, obese adults were randomized to lifestyle-change interventions, (12 weeks of exercise or diet prescriptions), or a nonintervention control group. The team seeks to find if these interventions can decrease the intramuscular fat present within the thigh and if that relates to an increase in physical function. 3MAP Lab, led by CU Physical Therapy Program Director Dr. Michael Harris-Love, is located at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus, and linked to Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center (RMR VAMC) through the Eastern Colorado Health Care System Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center (ECHS GRECC). Current laboratory efforts include the development of sonographic methods for sarcopenia and myosteatosis screening. 3MAP Lab has also
examined the physiologic advantages of eccentric muscle actions for use in rehabilitation interventions for older adults. Dr. Bodkin’s connection to the lab group has allowed him to explore muscle quality, aging, and obesity through Dr. Andrew Smith’s PM&R Pilot Grant and the T32 project with Dr. Bryan Bergman at the Department of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes “The mentorship team for this T32 project is compiled of successful researchers and clinicians from diverse backgrounds. Dr. Michael Harris-Love, my primary postdoctoral mentor, has vast experience in medical imaging to quantify age-related changes of muscle. Dr. Andrew Smith has brought a novel perspective of quantitating skeletal muscle through MRI, which has been vital for this project. Dr. Bryan Bergman, and his lab, have been instrumental to this work, not only in collecting and managing the study participants and data collection, but by providing the expertise around muscle metabolism to the study’s analyses and results. The ability to collaborate with a lab in a different field, such as endocrinology, has opened the possibilities for my individual research line in the years to come,” says Dr. Bodkin.4 “Dr. Bodkin has been integral to both the preparation and execution of this pilot grant project. This project was a catalyst for Dr. Bodkin’s T32 work in which I am now a co-mentor,” says Andrew Smith, PhD, a junior faculty mentor on the T32 mentorship team. “The goal of our project was to train and test a model to automatically measure mid-thigh muscle cross sectional area to both provide rapid estimation of lean body mass and predict the functional status of obese adults. After getting the project rolling with the help of collaborators and myself, Dr. Bodkin really took the lead on the project analysis and
Dr. Stephan Bodkin presenting data to Katie Boncella (left), Dr. Michael Harris-Love (second from left), and Dr. Andrew Smith (right).
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Dr. Stephan Bodkin (right), presenting data to Dr. Bryan Bergman (left).
seeing the project through to peerreviewed publication. I have truly benefited from this role as I have received training on how to mentor trainees through this year’s CCTSI Co-Mentor program.” Bryan Bergman, PhD, Professor of Medicine in the Department of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes, has also served on Dr. Bodkin’s T32 mentorship team. “I am an advisor and part of Dr. Bodkin’s mentorship team and help direct Stephan’s post-doctoral goals and strategies for success. Stephan is working with my laboratory on a project where we are investigating how intermuscular adipose tissue promotes the loss of muscle mass and strength in a cell culture system. Stephan is also using MRI data from our last intervention study to investigate how weight loss and exercise training impacts intermuscular adipose tissue content in overweight men and women. Dr. Bodkin is a rare individual as he is extremely bright, eloquent, very motivated, and an extremely good person. He is pushing science forward and generating impactful data with relevance for preventing diabetes and sarcopenia.” Dr. Harris-Love, who met Dr. Bergman while serving on an NIH workshop panel for the National Institute on Aging notes, “The lab group has proven to be central point of connection for investigators with an interest in skeletal muscle, metabolism, and physical function. Our collaborations have facilitated interdisciplinary efforts across departments within the School of Medicine. We are also involved with scientific partners spanning the Metro Denver area to Washington DC and Birmingham, England. Additionally, we have extended our working relationship to sharing the editorial duties for a scientific journal special issue. The special issue focuses on the theme of the innovative use of biomedical imaging to advance clinical decision-making in rehabilitation.” After completing his post-doctoral fellowship at CU, Dr. Bodkin has accepted a tenure-track faculty position within the University of Utah’s Department of Physical Therapy and Athletic Training for the 2022-2033 academic year. There, he will aim to investigate post-traumatic muscle morphology
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within individuals following acute knee injuries or orthopedic procedures. This will combine the sports medicine and biomechanics work that he has completed within his doctoral studies, to the muscle morphology training that he received at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Dr. Bodkin adds. “This next step would not be possible without the mentorship team and training provided from the T32 Integrative Physiology of Aging Grant.”
Mid-thigh muscle and fat distribution within the entire thigh (a) and within the individual thigh musculature (b). Lighter color shades represent the intramuscular fat and darker color shades represent lean muscle.
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5280 TOP DOCS Each year, 5280 Magazine surveys Denver physicians and asks them, specialty by specialty, which metro-area physicians they would trust to treat themselves and their families. The 2021 Top Docs list includes six of our esteemed colleagues:
Dr. Susan Apkon
MEDICAL SPECIALTY: Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine PREVIOUS HONORS: 2020, 2019, 2008, 2007, 2006 HOSPITAL AFFILIATION: Children’s
Dr. Amy Kanallakan
MEDICAL SPECIALTY: Brain Injury & Spinal Cord Injury Medicine First Time Honoree HOSPITAL AFFILIATION: Children’s
Dr. Susan Ladley
MEDICAL SPECIALTY: Brain Injury & Spinal Cord Injury Medicine PREVIOUS HONORS: 2020 HOSPITAL AFFILIATION: Denver Health, Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Dr. Oscar Sanchez
MEDICAL SPECIALTY: Brain Injury Medicine PREVIOUS HONORS: 2017 HOSPITAL AFFILIATION: Denver Health
Dr. Eric Spier
MEDICAL SPECIALTY: Brain Injury Medicine First Time Honoree HOSPITAL AFFILIATION: Craig
Dr. Pamela Wilson
MEDICAL SPECIALTY: Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine PREVIOUS HONORS: 2008-2018, 2020 HOSPITAL AFFILIATION: Children’s 16
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thank you
MARY JANE! After 23 years with the University of Colorado, Mary Jane Rapport, PT, DPT, PhD, FAPTA, retired on February 28, 2022. Dr. Rapport earned her Bachelor of Science in Physical Education from Ohio State University, and her Master and PhD in Special Education from Kent State University. She completed her Doctor of Physical Therapy degree at CU in 2009. Dr. Rapport lead a distinguished career at CU, starting in 1997 when she worked as Assistant Professor in the Department of Special Education on the Denver campus. In 1998, she joined the faculty in the School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics and was affiliated with JFK Partners. Dr. Rapport officially joined the PT faculty in 2005. Dr. Rapport has been instrumental in many initiatives of the Physical Therapy Program, including the move from the 9th and Colorado Health Science location to the CU Anschutz Medical Campus. Throughout the years, she has worked on the Pediatric Physical Therapy Residency, the Faculty Residency, building the Teaching Scholars Program in the School of Medicine, building the Education Scholarship, program curriculum changes in 2007, and again in 2016, the Community Volunteer Program, and starting Interprofessional Education at CU Anschutz. Dr. Rapport has served on number American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) committees and task forces, as well as the Federation of State Boards Physical Therapy (FSBPT) Practice Analysis Task Force. Dr. Rapport has described her time with CU PT as “exciting, challenging, fascinating and educational.” She is adamant that she will never be fully retired, and that she looks forward to the next chapter of her career as a part-time associated faculty member, with new challenges and new opportunities. She will miss the chance to continue working closely with many faculty colleagues who are “dedicated, driven and compassionate about many of the same things as I am in PT education.” The Physical Therapy Program congratulates Meghan Hernandez, PT, DPT, PCS, who will be stepping into the role of Program Director for the University of Colorado Pediatric Residency Program. We know that Dr. Rapport leaves behind big shoes to fill, but we are confident that Dr. Hernandez will excel in this new position!
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FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS Cindy Armstrong, PT, DPT, CHT, CLT was elected to another 3-year term on the APTA Board of Directors. She was also honored with the APTA Colorado Chapter Bob Doctor Service Award. Catherine Bilyeu, PT, DPT, OCS, along with Jennifer Gunlikson, PT, DPT, NCS, and Jennifer Rodriguez, PT, DPT, DCE, presented on Creating a culture of excellence: utilizing clinical-academic partnership to cultivate clinical instructor development opportunities, at the Educational Leadership Conference in Atlanta, GA. Michael Blei, MD, was inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society. Longtime faculty member Nancey Johnson Bookstein, EdD, MS, PT, joined the Scholarship & Endowment Board. Lara Canham, PT, DPT, OCS was promoted to Chair of Admissions. She also published Holistic Review in Doctor of Physical Therapy Admissions Can Lead to Enhanced Diversity in Admitted Students in the Journal of Physical Therapy Education and delivered an educational session at CSM 2021 titled All Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Arrows Point to Holistic Review in Admissions: A Panel on Implementation. Cory Christiansen, PT, PhD, was a finalist for the National Postdoctoral Association Gallagher Mentor Award. Lisa Dannemiller, DSC, PT, PSC, was recognized by the Pediatric Physical Therapy Journal for Best Article in 2020. Robyn Gisbert, PT, DPT, received the Association of Schools Advancing Health Professions: Journal of Allied Health J. Warren Perry Distinguished Author Award 2020. She also received the CU Physical Therapy Program 2021 Excellence in Teaching Award. Michael Harris-Love, PT, MPT, DSc, FGSA was appointed as an Associate Editor for the journal, Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences. He transitioned from Visiting Professor status to a full Professor appointment. He also was the Research Day Keynote Speaker for the Mayo Clinic Physical Therapy Program, in Rochester, MN. Jeffrey Hebert, PhD, PT, was the recipient of the Academy of Neurologic Physical Therapy American Physical Therapy Association Vestibular Rehabilitation Special InterestGroup (SIG) Best Article Award (Presented to an individual who has Contributed an outstanding article of significant value to the Vestibular SIG): The Evolving Landscape of Vestibular-related Rehabilitation for Patients with Multiple Sclerosis: From Conceptualization to Current Best Evidence. Meghan Hernandez, PT, DPT, PCS was promoted to Program Director for the University of Colorado Pediatric Residency Program. Lauren Hinrichs, PT, DPT, OCS, along with Amy Nordon-Craft, PT, DSc, Mark Mañago, PT, DPT, PhD, NCS, Amy McDevitt, PT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT, and Dana Judd, PT, DPT, PhD gave a poster presentation on Blocked scheduling in physical therapist education as a curricular adjustment in response to COVID-19 at CSM in San Antonio. Dana Judd, PT, DPT, PhD was promoted to Associate Professor. She was also selected for membership into the University of Colorado, School of Medicine, Academy of Medical Educators. Adam Kinney, PhD, received an American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine Service Commendation. Toby Kinney, PT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT, MBA, PhD(c) received the Bette Ann “B.A.” Harris Scholarship in Interprofessional Studies, from the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions. Elizabeth Knight, MD, received the Outstanding Reviewer Award from the American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
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Dawn Magnusson, PT, PhD received the Dean’s Bridge Funding Award from the School of Medicine. George Marzloff, MD, received the Bravo Award for innovations in leading the Inpatient Operations Committee. Matthew Mayer, MD, received the Top 10% Provider at Children’s Hospital Colorado Patient Satisfaction Award. Amy McDevitt, PT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT was promoted to Associate Professor. She was selected for membership into the University of Colorado, School of Medicine, Academy of Medical Educators. She was also Winner of Best Overall Poster Presentation; American Academy of Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapists Conference, Cleveland, Ohio, October 2021. Meredith Mealer, PhD, RN, received the Pioneering Spirit Award from the American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN). Adele Meron, MD, received the Jerome Gersten Mentorship Award, from the CU Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Residency Program. Paul Mintken, PT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT was elected to a 3-year term as a Nominating Committee member of the Academy of Orthopaedic Physical Therapy. He and Amy McDevitt were awarded Best Poster Presentation, First Place Overall, American Academy of Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapists Annual Conference for Pneumothorax following dry needling of periscapular muscles utilizing a rib bracketing technique: A case report. He also received the Cerasoli Award for Outstanding Contributions to Physical Therapy Education from the University of Colorado Physical Therapy Program, 2021. William Niehaus, MD, was named a Top 5 Poster by the Association of Academic Physiatrists Program for Academic Leadership Project. He was nominated for CU Medical Student Association Mentor of the Year. He was also nominated for the CU School of Medicine COVID-19 Resilience Award 2020-2021: Outstanding COVID Research Collaboration Award. Nathan Odom, MD, received the Colorado Hospital Superhero Award. Joyce Oleszek, MD, received the 5-Star Excellence Award – Children’s Hospital Colorado Patient Family Experience Award - given annually to those who score in the top 10 percent (at or above the 90th percentile) on patient-family surveys. Mike Pascoe, PhD was promoted to Associate Professor. His abstract was competitively accepted for oral platform at the American Association for Anatomy, Serving as an Anatomy Laboratory Teaching Assistant was not Associated with Higher Scores on the USMLE Step 1 Exam, April 2021. He secured the 2021 Rymer Grant from the Academy of Medical Educators for Onboarding Medical Students, Interns and Residents onto Surgical Services using a Wiki. He published The effect of Snapchat on learner satisfaction and anatomical knowledge retention: Preliminary observations in FASEB Bio Advances, which received a #2 score from Altmetric Score out of 160 articles. He was also nominated for the inaugural University of Colorado Physical Therapy Program Excellence in Teaching Award, considered alongside two senior colleagues. Aaron Powell, MD, received the 4 Star Provider Award Children’s Hospital Colorado. Stephanie Ryder, MD, received the 2021 Foundation for Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Best Original Research Award. Margaret Schenkman, PT, PhD, FAPTA received Professor Emeritus status. Scott Schubert, MD, received the VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System Bravo Award, the Special Contribution Award, and the FY21 Superior Performance Award. Andrew Smith, PT, DPT, PhD was the recipient of the 2021 APTA Academy of Neurologic Physical Therapy Spinal Cord Injury SIG Research Award. He was also accepted into the Comprehensive Opportunities in Rehabilitation Research Training NIH K12 Scholar program for its final year. Dr. Smith delivered 4 scientific presentations, was an AB Nexus Grant recipient, had 8 peer-reviewed manuscript publications, and was a Rocky Mountain Regional Spinal Injury System co-investigator. Jennifer Stevens-Lapsley, PT, PhD, FAPTA and her research group, RESTORE, were awarded an NIH grant: Advancing Rehabilitation Paradigms for Older Adults in Skilled Nursing Facilities; $2,359,661. She was a Society of Critical Care Medicine Award Winner: Factors Associated With Home Health Rehabilitation Utilization Among Older ICU Survivors. She was also the Irma Ruebling Distinguished Speaker at St. Louis University.
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Faculty Publication Exemplars
Apkon, S., Kinnett, K., Cripe, L., Duan, D., Jackson, J. L., Kornegay, J. N., . . . Flanigan, K. M. (2021). Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy Females with Dystrophinopathy Conference, Orlando, Florida June 26 June 27, 2019. J Neuromuscul Dis, 8(2), 315-322. doi:10.3233/JND-200555 Berliner, J. C., O’Dell, D. R., Albin, S. R., Dungan, D., Sevigny, M., Elliott, J. M., . . . Smith, A. C. (2021). The influence of conventional T2 MRI indices in predicting who will walk outside one year after spinal cord injury. J Spinal Cord Med, 1-7. doi:10.1080/10790268.2021.1907676 Brostow, D. P., Stamper, C. E., Stanislawski, M. A., Stearns-Yoder, K. A., Schneider, A., Postolache, T. T., Forster, J., Hoisington, A.J., Lowry, C. A., Brenner, L. A. (2021). Dietary habits and the gut microbiota in military Veterans: results from the United States-Veteran Microbiome Project (US-VMP). Gut Microbiome, 2, e1. doi:10.1017/gmb.2021.1 Christensen, J. C., Capin, J. J., Hinrichs, L. A., Aljehani, M., Stevens-Lapsley, J. E., & Zeni, J. A. (2021). Gait mechanics are influenced by quadriceps strength, age, and sex after total knee arthroplasty. J Orthop Res, 39(7), 1523-1532. doi:10.1002/jor.24878 Gustavson, A. M., LeDoux, C. V., Stutzbach, J. A., Miller, M. J., Seidler, K. J., & Stevens-Lapsley, J. E. (2021). Mixed-Methods Approach to Understanding Determinants of Practice Change in Skilled Nursing Facility Rehabilitation: Adapting to and Sustaining Value With Postacute Reform. J Geriatr Phys Ther, 44(2), 108-118. doi:10.1519/JPT.0000000000000288 Kinney, A., Bahraini, N., Forster, J.E, & Brenner, L. (2021). Factors Influencing the Implementation of Guideline-recommended Practices for Post-concussive Sleep Disturbance and Headache in the Veterans Health Administration. Arch Phys Med Rehabil, 102(10), e6. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j. apmr.2021.07.405 Kirkwood, M. W., Howell, D. R., Brooks, B. L., Wilson, J. C., & Meehan Iii, W. P. (2021). The Nocebo Effect and Pediatric Concussion. J Sport Rehabil, 30(6), 837-843. doi:10.1123/jsr.2020-0519 Magnusson, D. M., Shwayder, I., Murphy, N. J., Ollerenshaw, L., Ebendick, M., & Auer-Bennett, E. (2021). Creation of a Community-Driven Decision Support Tool for Caregivers of Children With Developmental Concerns. Am J Speech Lang Pathol, 1-11. doi:10.1044/2021_AJSLP-21-00072 Tahmasbi Sohi, M., Nortman, S., Brega, K., Forster, J. E., & Guzzetti, J. R. (2021). Correlation of Electrodiagnostic Findings in C8 Radiculopathies With Radiographic Data: A Retrospective Chart Review. Am J Phys Med Rehabil, 100(7), 721-724. doi:10.1097/PHM.0000000000001722
Uhler, K. M., Kaizer, A. M., Walker, K. A., & Gilley, P. M. (2021). Relationship between Behavioral Infant Speech Perception and Hearing Age for Children with Hearing Loss. J Clin Med, 10(19). doi:10.3390/jcm10194566 Wyrwa, J. M., Shirel, T. M., Hostetter, T. A., Schneider, A. L., Hoffmire, C. A., Stearns-Yoder, K. A., Forster, J.E., Odom, N.E., Brenner, L. A. (2021). Suicide After Stroke in the United States Veteran Health Administration Population. Arch Phys Med Rehabil, 102(9), 1729-1734. doi:10.1016/j.apmr.2021.03.009
COVID Publications: Herrera, J. E., Niehaus, W. N., Whiteson, J., Azola, A., Baratta, J. M., Fleming, T. K., . . . Abramoff, B. (2021). Multidisciplinary collaborative consensus guidance statement on the assessment and treatment of fatigue in postacute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC) patients. PM R, 13(9), 1027-1043. doi:10.1002/pmrj.12684 Mañago, M. M., Swink, L. A., Hager, E. R., Gisbert, R., Earhart, G. M., Christiansen, C. L., & Schenkman, M. (2021). The Impact of COVID-19 on Community-Based Exercise Classes for People With Parkinson Disease. Phys Ther, 101(11). doi:10.1093/ptj/pzab203 Monteith, L. L., Holliday, R., Brown, T. L., Brenner, L. A., & Mohatt, N. V. (2021). Preventing Suicide in Rural Communities During the COVID-19 Pandemic. J Rural Health, 37(1), 179-184. doi:10.1111/jrh.12448 Nicolosi, C., Barber, K., Draganich, C., & Niehaus, W. (2021). Inpatient Rehabilitation After COVID-19 Hospitalization in a Patient With Lung Transplant: A Case Study. Am J Phys Med Rehabil, 100(7), 627-630. doi:10.1097/PHM.0000000000001761 Vickory, F., Ridgeway, K., Falvey, J., Houwer, B., Gunlikson, J., Payne, K., & Niehaus, W. (2021). Safety, Feasibility, and Outcomes of Frequent, Long-Duration Rehabilitation in an Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility After Prolonged Hospitalization for Severe COVID-19: An Observational Study. Phys Ther, 101(11). doi:10.1093/ptj/ pzab208
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