


Its largest award to-date — a 5-year, $5.5 million NIH grant — went to CoHSTAR’s PI, Dr. Resnik, to create the Learning Health Systems Rehabilitation Research Network (LeaRRn), a national resource network to advance stakeholder-partnered, rehabilitation learning health systems (LHS) research to improve quality of care, demonstrate value, and enhance patient and system outcomes.


CoHSTAR-funded researchers have published or submitted for publication nearly 100 research articles.
Meet some of the CoHSTAR researchers and hear about the impact of CoHSTAR in their own words.

Peter Coyle, PT, DPT, PhD, originally joined CoHSTAR in 2017 as a postdoctoral fellow, where he focused on age-related mobility loss and community-based exercise programs.
Coyle is once again beginning a second fellowship with CoHSTAR in Fall 2021.

FPTR continues to prepare researchers to pursue external funding and growth. Joshua K. Johnson PT, DPT, PhD, is one of many FPTR alumni receiving training and support in health services research. Johnson is a two-time FPTR award recipient and is now a CoHSTAR Pilot Study Award recipient.

Chris Yun Lane, PT, DPT, was selected for to receive CoHSTAR's newly developed diversity-targeted, mentored predoctoral summer research opportunity. He will work with Dr. Shireman to examine disparities in health services outcomes for adults with rheumatoid arthritis.

Since 2015, CoHSTAR has yielded 211 peer-reviewed publications and 208 research abstracts presented and 35 invited presentations.

In its seven years, CoHSTAR has funded and trained 38 researchers in HSR. This number is expected to greatly increase by the end of the grant period.
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