MR3 Network 2023 Scientific Retreat

Moving from Potential to Real Impact: Engaging with a Broader Community to Improve Translation of Rehabilitation Research Innovations

Third Annual Scientific Retreat

Held September 7 and 8, 2023, via Zoom

Video archive of the Retreat presentations is coming soon!

Collaborations with partners in research and development should shape the design of technologies, devices, and interventions to ensure their effective dissemination and use. This retreat will highlighted research approaches to engaging partners in different aspects of the research process and along the translational continuum.

Retreat Program, downloadable in PDF format 

Keynote Speakers

Linda Resnik, PT, Ph.D., FAPTA
Director of LeaRRn Center and Co-Director, LeaRRn Pilot Core
Professor of Health Services, Policy, and Practice, Brown University
Research Career Scientist, Providence VA Medical Center

James Krause, Ph.D. Medical University of South Carolina
Distinguished University Professor
Associate Dean for Research
Director, Center for Rehabilitation Research in Neurological Conditions
Medical University of South Carolina

Closing Remarks

Theresa Cruz, Ph.D.
Director, NIH NICHD National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research

  

 
Agenda

Day 1: Thursday, September 07, 2023 (All times Eastern)

 

10:30 to 10:40 a.m.

Welcome

Rick Segal, PT, Ph.D., FAPTA

Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC

 

10:40 to 11:30 a.m.

Keynote Presentation

Session Moderator: Christine McDonough, Ph.D., PT

30-minute presentation, 20-minute discussion

 

Integrated Knowledge Translation for Greater Impact

Linda Resnik, PT, Ph.D., FAPTA

Director LeaRRn, Co-Director Pilot Core

Professor, Health Services, Policy and Practice Brown University

Research Career Scientist, Providence VA Medical Center

 

11:30 to 11:40 a.m.

Break

 

11:40 a.m.to 12:40 p.m.

Session 1: Clinical Research Partnerships 1

Session Moderator: Miriam Rafferty, Ph.D., DPT, PT

20 minutes each, including discussion

 

Bringing Clinicians and Researchers Together to Inform Device Development: Insights and Lessons Learned

Courtney Celian, M/OT
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

 

The IdeaLab: A Strategy to Promote Interdisciplinary Communication and Advance Rehabilitation Research Projects

Melissa Briody, OTR/L
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

To Develop a Model for Walking Exercise in Rural Stroke Survivors

Wen Liu, Ph.D.

University of Kansas Medical Center

 

12:40 to 12:50 p.m.

Break

 

 

12:50 to 2:10 p.m.

Session 2: Patient/Community Engagement 1

Session Moderator: Amy Darragh, Ph.D., OTR/L

20 minutes each, including discussion

 

Perceptions of Rehabilitation for Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease Related Dementias: Using Stakeholder Feedback to Refine Research Tools

Ikenna Ebuenyi, Ph.D.
University of Pittsburgh

 

Reimagining Engagement: An Interprofessional Research Design Used to Study the Effects of a 3-Day Stroke Camp across 42 Sites

Julie Schwertfeger, Ph.D., PT

Rosalind Franklin University & Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center

 

Finding Strength: Podcasting as a Means of Community Engagement in Rehabilitation Research

Shonali Gaudino, OT
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital

 

Reconciling the Past, Changing the Future: Building Capacity of Young Adults with IDD-MH, Families, and Researchers to Partner in Research

Jessica Kramer, PhD, OTR/L

University of Florida

 

2:10 to 2:20 p.m.

Break

 

2:20 to 3:20 p.m.

Session 3: Industry Partnerships

Session Moderator:  Rick Segal, PT, Ph.D., FAPTA

20 minutes each, including discussion

 

Collaboration with Industry: Do's & Don'ts to Help your Academic Career

Arun Jayaraman, Ph.D., PT

Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

 

Lost in Translation: Noninvasive Neuromodulation- What We Owe to our Patients, Community, and the Nation

Ela Plow, Ph.D., PT

Cleveland Clinic Foundation

 

Commercialization of Medical Devices:  A Role for Industry Partnerships

Rick Greenwald, Ph.D.

Founder and Past President/CEO of Simbex

Adjunct Professor of Engineering, Dartmouth University

3:20 to 3:30 p.m.

Break

 

3:30 to 4:30 p.m.

Session 4: Advisory Boards

Session Moderator: Amy Darragh, Ph.D., OTR/L
20 minutes each, including discussion

 

Integrating a Parent Advisory Council in a Clinical Trial

Mara Yale, Ph.D.

Massachusetts General Hospital

 

Establishing a Long-Term Stakeholder Partnership for Stroke Rehabilitation Research

Miranda Donnelly, OTR/L

University of Southern California

 

Community Advisory Board Research Collaboration to Identify User Priorities for Ankle-Foot Orthoses

Gabrielle Scronce, Ph.D., DPT, PT

Ralph H. Johnson VA Health Care System, Medical University of South Carolina

 

4:30 to 5:00p.m.

Funding Agency Q&A  

Session Moderator: Rick Segal, PT, Ph.D., FAPTA

 

NIH National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research (NCMRR)

Joe Bonner, Ph.D., Health Scientist Administrator and Program Officer

 

Veterans Affairs Rehabilitation Research & Development (VA RR&D)

Audrey Kusiak, Ph.D., Scientific Program Manager for Regenerative Medicine, Spinal Cord Injury/Disorders and Neuropathic Pain
Brian Schulz, Ph.D., Scientific Program Manager for Rehabilitation Engineering and Prosthetics/Orthotics

 

NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)

Christopher Hartshorn, Ph.D., Chief, Digital & Mobile Technologies Section

 

National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR)

Radha Holavanahalli, Ph.D., Rehabilitation Program Specialist

 

Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs, United States Department of Defense

Melissa Miller, Ph.D., Health Science Program Manager

 

Craig H. Neilsen Foundation

Jacob Shreckengost, Ph.D., Program Officer

 

 

Day 2: Friday, September 08, 2023 (All times Eastern)

 

11:00 to 11:05 a.m.

Welcome 

Rick Segal PT, Ph.D., FAPTA 

Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC

 

11:05 a.m. to 12:25 p.m.

Session 5: Clinical Research Partnerships 

Session Moderator: Lisa Juckett, Ph.D., OTR/L

20 minutes each, including discussion

 

Leveraging a New Clinical-Research Partnership: Mitigating Fall Risk in Inpatient Rehabilitation with Speech-Language Pathology

Natalie Douglas, Ph.D.

Central Michigan University

 

Empowering Stroke Survivors Beyond the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility: The STRIDE Program 

Jessica Cassidy, Ph.D., DPT, PT

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

iKNOW:  Integrating Knowledge through Community and Clinical Partnerships

Amy Yorke, PT, Ph.D.

University of Michigan-Flint

 

Scalable Kinematic Analysis Using Smartphone Videos: Towards Movement Biomarkers for Neuromuscular Diseases

Parker Ruth

Stanford University

 

12:25 to 12:45 pm

Session 6A: Design Thinking

Session Moderator: Matthew Petrucci, Ph.D.

20 minutes, including discussion

 

Designing for Accelerated Translation: An Implementation Framework Adapted for Rehabilitation Technology

Miriam Rafferty, Ph.D., DPT, PT

Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Northwestern University’s Feinburg School of Medicine

 

12:45 to 1:00 p.m.

Break

 

1:00 to 1:50 p.m.

Keynote Presentation

Session Moderator: Randal Davis, MBA

30-minute presentation, 20-minute discussion

 

Developing, Maintaining, and Expanding a Program of Research: An Example with Spinal Cord Injury

James Krause, Ph.D.

Distinguished University Professor and Associate Dean for Research

Director of the Center for Rehabilitation Research in Neurological Conditions

Medical University of South Carolina

 

1:50 to 2:30 p.m.

Session 6B: Design Thinking  

Session Moderator: Matthew Petrucci, Ph.D.

20 minutes each, including discussion

 

Using Human-Centered Design Principles within the Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST) Framework to Engage Clinical Partners to Develop LiveWell-HF: a Home-Based Palliative Physical Therapy Intervention

Tamra Keeney, Ph.D., DPT

Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital

 

Improving upon User-Centered Design with Sensor Data: Design-for-Uptake in Rehabilitation Technology

Veronica Swanson, Ph.D.

University of California, Irvine

 

2:30 to 2:45 p.m.

Break

 

2:45 to 3:45 p.m.

Session 7: Patient/Community Partnerships 2

Session Moderator: Rick Segal PT, Ph.D., FAPTA

20 minutes each, including discussion

 

Aligning Fall Definitions with Lower Limb Prosthesis Users' Lived Experiences

Julie Ferrell-Olson

University of Illinois, Chicago

 

Facilitators and Barriers to Implementing Frame Running into Extracurricular Running Groups for Children and Adolescents

Theresa Sukal Moulton, Ph.D., DPT, PT

Northwestern University

 

Patients and Clinicians as Collaborators on the Development and Acceptance of a Virtual Reality Stroke Rehabilitation Platform

Dan Blustein, Ph.D.
Acadia University

 

 

3:45 to 4:45 p.m.

Session 8: Learning Health Systems

Session Moderator: Christine McDonough, Ph.D., PT

20 minutes each, including discussion

 

Using the RE-AIM Framework to Evaluate the Implementation of Standardized Cognitive Outcome Measures within a Rehabilitation Learning Health System

Megan Schliep, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, MPH

MGH Institute of Health Professions, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital

 

Leveraging a Learning Health System Model to Improve Care for Low Back Pain, One Clinic at a Time

Emily Evans, Ph.D., PT
Boston University

 

Engaging with a Learning Health System as an External Research Scholar: Accomplishments, Challenges and Lessons Learned

Samannaaz Khoja, Ph.D., PT

University of Pittsburgh

 

4:45 to 5:00 pm

Closing Remarks

Theresa Hayes Cruz, Ph.D.

Director, NICHD National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research