CHP Research Day 2009

The CHP Research Day was a great success thanks to the tremendous participation faculty and students from across the College. There were over 50 posters representing collaborations among over 150 graduate students and faculty from CHP. Importantly, over three dozen faculty participated as members of interdisciplinary judging teams. Judges included:

Steven Carp (Physical Therapy)
Brad Collins (Public Health)
Brian Daly (Public Health)
Adam Davey (Therapeutic Recreation)
Megan Dunn Davison (Communication Sciences)
Doris Fallon Snyder (Communication Sciences)
Ruth Farber (Occupational Therapy)
Brian Goldstein (Communication Sciences)
Tom Gordon Collins (Public Health)
Clara Haignere Collins (Public Health)
Jenn Ibrahim Collins (Public Health)
Emily Keshner (Physical Therapy)
Jane Kurz (Nursing)
Rich Lauer (Physical Therapy)
Steve Lepore Collins (Public Health)
Rhonda Maneval (Nursing)
Nadine Martin (Communication Sciences)
Melissa Napolitano (Kinesiology)
Deb Nelson Collins (Public Health)
Tom Rooney (Kinesiology)
Karen Schaefer (Nursing)
Jay Segal Collins (Public Health)
Fern Silverman (Occupational Therapy)
Ryan Tierney (Kinesiology)
Carole Tucker (Physical Therapy)
Ya Weng Tseng (Physical Therapy)
Bob Whitaker (Public Health)
Vanessa Yingling (Kinesiology)

A special thanks is extended to the very committed and efficient members of the CHP Research Day Committee, which included both faculty and graduate students from across the College: Stephen Lepore, Carole Tucker, Ryan Tierney, Megan Davison, Andrew DeMarco, Lori Martin Plank, Anne Russ, Tamar Klaiman, Fern Silverman.

We also wish to acknowledge the Dean's Office for financial support for the event, the excellent facilities assistance from Sharon Torres, Assistant Director of Howard Gittis Student Center, and the ever-helpful Carol Dash for organizing the refreshments.

Awards

There were 10 awards for Meritorious Posters and 2 Dean's Awards for Outstanding Posters that were selected from those 10. The first two posters listed below received both the Meritorious Poster citation and the Dean's Award.

Job Godino, Stephen Lepore, Stefanie Rassnick
Department of Public Health
Relation of misperception of healthy weight to obesity and health behaviors in urban black men

Laura Prosser, Rich Lauer, Samuel Lee, Ann VanSant, Mary Barbe
Department of Physical Therapy
Trunk and hip muscle activation patterns during the early stages of walking in children with cerebral palsy

Uma Nair, Brad Collins, Mel Hovell, Paul Wileyto, Janet Audrain-McGovern
Departments of Kinesiology and Public Health
Smoking-related weight concerns in underserved, black female smokers enrolled in an ETS-Reduction trial

Dennis Klima, Tamara Adkins, Jesse Fernandez, Gilbert DeLeon, Roberta Newton
Department of Physical Therapy
Physical performance among African-American older adults: The four square step test

Tiffany Butler, Vanessa Yingling
Department of Kinesiology
The effect of delayed puberty on the growth plate

Rachel Gooze, Cayce Hughes, Robert Whitaker
Department of Public Health
A national survey of physical activity practices in head start

Rachel Kamen, Nadine Martin, Francine Kohen, Meichelene Kalynayak-Fliszar
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Affects of memory load and typicality of semantic category on semantic processing in aphasia

Kimberly B. Dasch, Heather F. Russell, Erica L. Homko, Erin Kelly, Julie A. Gorzkowski, Mary Jane Mulcahey, Randal R. Betz, Lawrence C. Vogel
CHP - Psychology Intern
Caregiver coping in pediatric spinal cord injury

Lauren Mooney, Megan Davison
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Syntactic measure of written language in low-achieving fourth grade students

McDevitt J, Tierney RT, Mansell JL, Driban J, Toone N, ATC*, Higgins M, Mishra A, Krynetskiy E,
Department of Kinesiology
Neuronal structural protein polymorphisms and concussion in collegiate athletes