2018 Foundation Funded Researcher
"This award will allow us to investigate the acute changes in muscle that appear to contribute to longterm issues with physical function in transplant recipients."
Michael Tevald, PT, MPT, PhD, is an Associate Professor at Arcadia University. He received the 2018 Acute Care Research Grant supported by a donation from the Academy of Acute Care Physical Therapy.
2018 Foundation Funded Researcher
"The Foundation's support has facilitated progress towards my career goal of becoming an independent scientist and leader in clinical pain research."
Katie A. Butera, PT, DPT, is a PhD candidate at the University of Florida and the recipient of a 2018 Promotion of Doctoral Studies II Scholarship. Her dissertation study is titled, "Pain as a Nervous System Disease."
2018 Foundation Funded Researcher
"This Foundation grant is meaningful to me because it will advance knowledge to maximize outcomes for these vulnerable infants and will serve as preliminary data for an NIH RO1 Grant Proposal."
Barbara Sargent, PT, PCS, PhD, is a researcher at the University of Southern California. She studies early identification and intervention of infants with neuromotor disorders.
2018 Foundation Funded Researcher
"Financial support [from the Foundation] will allow me to focus more of my time on my coursework and research agenda. I am incredibly grateful to the Foundation for this opportunity."
Karen E. Thatcher, PT, DPT, is a two-time gold medalist in the Ice Hockey Women's World Championship and a silver olympic medalist. As a PhD student at The Ohio State University, she wants to help kids recover from Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction.
2018 Mercer-Marquette Challenge Award to fund "Strategic Learning in Locomotion Post Stroke"
MARGARET A. FRENCH, PT, DPT
Evidence We Can Use...
The Center on Health Services Training and Research was established with an unprecedented $2.5 million Foundation grant. Now in its fourth year, CoHSTAR is expanding health services research capacity.
14
Faculty and Postdoctoral
Fellows
47
Publications Submitted or Accepted for Publication
$225,000
Follow-on Funding Towards Pilot Studies
Mercer-Marquette Challenge
Future physical therapists and physical therapist assistants set a record-breaking year for the Mercer-Marquette Challenge. Students from 178 schools raised $328,456.
"If we aren't able to document efficacy, then we will be left behind in the health care world... The Foundation continues to be a great training ground for new researchers to learn how to receive funding from other sources."
Janet Peterson, PT, DPT
Foundation Legacy Donor
