No images? Click here January 2022 ResearchFrom Matt Durand, PhD As we mark the end of the year 2021 and look forward to 2022, the Research Team would like to wish all members of the PM&R family a Happy New Year. The year 2021 was met with challenges, but more importantly, optimism for the future of our Research Program. We would therefore like to take this opportunity to showcase our research capacity and highlight some of the research accomplishments of our faculty, fellows and residents over the last year. PM&R faculty currently hold 33 active IRB protocols, and seven new protocols were approved in the year 2021. Collectively, members of our Department were involved in six extramural funding applications for research as Co-Investigators in the year 2021, and six grant applications were submitted with PM&R faculty as Principal Investigators. Additionally, our Department is currently either enrolling or finalizing contracts on three industry-sponsored clinical trials. Finally, in the year 2021, PM&R faculty published 14 peer-reviewed research manuscripts in medical journals. A few accomplishments and individuals we would like to highlight specifically are: Dr. Erin McGonigle-Ketchum, who received a $35,000 New Faculty Pilot Grant from the Office of Research at the Medical College of Wisconsin for her project entitled OnabotulinumtoxinA for Treatment of Chemotherapy Induced Peripheral Neuropathy. Dr. McGonigle-Ketchum is the first member of the PM&R faculty to be awarded one of these highly competitive awards at MCW. Dr. Colton Sauer, who was selected as one of ten trainees for the Rehabilitation Medicine Scientist Training Program (RMSTP). The RMSTP is an NIH-funded, national program organized by the Association of Academic Physiatrists that provides structured learning for the next generation of physician-scientists in the field of PM&R. Dr. Sauer is the first member of MCW’s PM&R residency program to be accepted into this prestigious training program. Dr. John McGuire and his collaborator Dr. Robert Scheidt from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Marquette University and the Medical College of Wisconsin for their recently funded NIH R21 Application entitled Addressing Arm Non-use by Encouraging Idle-time Activity during Early Recovery from Stroke. This two-year project will examine the utility and subjective patient experience using a personal exercise cueing system during acute stroke recovery. Drs. Ken Lee and Michael Harper received $108,000 from The Grants for Adaptive Sports Programs for Disabled Veterans and Members of the Armed Forces and the Paralyzed Veterans of America Education Foundation Grant to conduct research and develop educational material on concussions in wheelchair athletes. The final product of this project was publication of the book Concussion Management for Wheelchair Athletes, Evaluation and Examination. The editors of this book were Drs. Ken Lee and Michael Harper (PM&R), Dr. Michael Uihlein (Emergency Medicine), and Dr. Michael McCrea (Neurosurgery). Numerous other MCW faculty, past residents and fellows of our Department, and Milwaukee VAMC staff also were authors for the book, including: Michelle Lanouette (VAMC), Dr. Beth Weinman (Orthopedic Surgery), Dr. Frank Pintar (Biomedical Engineering), Dr. Berdale Colorado (former resident), Dr. Kristin Garlanger (former fellow), and Jonathan Lee (VA/MCW research). The project also received numerous national awards, including winning the “ACRM Poster - 1st Place” at the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine Annual Conference and “One of the Top Research Abstracts” at the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Annual Assembly. The successful completion of this project stems largely from the hard work of PM&R’s first Research Intensive Track resident, Dr. Michael Harper, who is currently a Sports Medicine Fellow at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. The Stroke Rehabilitation Center of Southeast Wisconsin has prepared their 2021 annual report, highlighting the accomplishments of the SRC and the strength of team science: mcw.box.com All of these accomplishments would not have been possible without the dedication and guidance of our phenomenal research staff, so on behalf of our entire Department, thank you to Sahar Ali, Jennifer Nguyen, and Meghann Sytsma for continuing to do an amazing job supporting our Research Program. Looking forward to February 2022, we will be welcoming Dr. Whitney Welch Morelli, a full-time research intensive faculty, to our department. She has research interests in exercise physiology, and promoting physical activity in high-risk populations including cancer survivors. A full introduction will be forthcoming in the next newsletter. ______________________________________________________________________________ 2021 - 2022
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