2023 MR3 Network Scientific Retreat Archive

The MR3 Network presents a video archive of its third annual scientific retreat, entitled "Moving from Potential to Real Impact: Engaging with a Broader Community to Improve Translation of Rehabilitation Research Innovations"

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

The MR3 Network is pleased to offer an archive of video recordings of presentations from our third annual scientific retreat, which was presented on September 7 and 8, 2023, via Zoom 

Retreat Program, downloadable in PDF format 

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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.

Keynote Speakers

headshot of Dr. ReznikLinda 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

headshot of Dr. KrauseJames 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

Headshot of Dr. CruzTheresa Cruz, Ph.D.
Director, NIH NICHD National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research

  

 
Agenda and Video Archive

Day 1: Thursday, September 7, 2023

 

Welcome decorative graphic

Rick Segal, PT, Ph.D., FAPTA

Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC

 

Keynote Presentation

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

 

Integrated Knowledge Translation for Greater Impact decorative graphic

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

 

Session 1: Clinical Research Partnerships 1

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

 

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

Courtney Celian, M/OT
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

 

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

Melissa Briody, OTR/L
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

To Develop a Model for Walking Exercise in Rural Stroke Survivors decorative graphic

Wen Liu, Ph.D.

University of Kansas Medical Center

 

Session 2: Patient/Community Engagement 1

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

 

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

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 decorative graphic

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 decorative graphic

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 decorative graphic

Jessica Kramer, PhD, OTR/L

University of Florida

 

Session 3: Industry Partnerships

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

 

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

Ela Plow, Ph.D., PT

Cleveland Clinic Foundation

 

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

Arun Jayaraman, Ph.D., PT

Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

 

Commercialization of Medical Devices:  A Role for Industry Partnerships decorative graphic

Rick Greenwald, Ph.D.

Founder and Past President/CEO of Simbex

Adjunct Professor of Engineering, Dartmouth University

 

Session 4: Advisory Boards

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

 

Integrating a Parent Advisory Council in a Clinical Trial decorative graphic

Mara Yale, Ph.D.

Massachusetts General Hospital

 

Establishing a Long-Term Stakeholder Partnership for Stroke Rehabilitation Research decorative graphic

Miranda Donnelly, OTR/L

University of Southern California

 

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

Gabrielle Scronce, Ph.D., DPT, PT

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

 

Funding Agency Q&A decorative graphic

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 8, 2023

 

Welcome decorative graphic

Rick Segal PT, Ph.D., FAPTA 

Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC

 

Session 5: Clinical Research Partnerships 

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

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

Natalie Douglas, Ph.D.

Central Michigan University

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

Jessica Cassidy, Ph.D., DPT, PT

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

iKNOW:  Integrating Knowledge through Community and Clinical Partnerships decorative graphic

Amy Yorke, PT, Ph.D.

University of Michigan-Flint

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

Parker Ruth

Stanford University

 

Session 6A: Design Thinking

Session Moderator: Matthew Petrucci, Ph.D.

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

Miriam Rafferty, Ph.D., DPT, PT

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

 

Keynote Presentation

Session Moderator: Randal Davis, MBA

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

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

 

Session 6B: Design Thinking  

Session Moderator: Matthew Petrucci, Ph.D.

 

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 decorative graphic

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 decorative graphic

Veronica Swanson, Ph.D.

University of California, Irvine

 

Session 7: Patient/Community Partnerships 2

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

 

Aligning Fall Definitions with Lower Limb Prosthesis Users' Lived Experiences decorative graphic

Julie Ferrell-Olson

University of Illinois, Chicago

 

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

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 decorative graphic

Dan Blustein, Ph.D.
Acadia University

 

Session 8: Learning Health Systems

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

 

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

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 decorative graphic

Emily Evans, Ph.D., PT
Boston University

 

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

Samannaaz Khoja, Ph.D., PT

University of Pittsburgh

 

Closing Remarks decorative graphic

Theresa Hayes Cruz, Ph.D.

Director, NICHD National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research