Chronic Illness/Disease

All groups within this session are presenting from 3:15-3:45pm on Thursday, February 11, 2021 Faculty Facilitator: Jessica Kramer, PhD, OTR/L. Graduate Student Facilitator: Yi Yuan Group 1a- COVID and Infectious Diseases…

As a psychiatric epidemiologist, Catherine Woodstock Striley’s, PhD, MSW, MPE, research is concerned with increasing the recognition of psychopathology and addictive behavior to, in turn, increase service receipt, and with decreasing barriers to service. She has been a Co-Investigator on research involving community members, out-of-treatment drug users, and women in…

Her research has focused on drug and alcohol use and dependence in vulnerable populations like injection drug users, criminal offenders, women and African-Americans. She has developed internationally recognized assessment tools for drug, alcohol and nicotine use and gambling. Dr. Cottler is also known for her innovative approach to community-based research.

Dr. Heaton’s research interests include Pediatric Neuropsychology, Child and Adult Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Childhood Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Attention and Memory Processes. Full CV…

Dr. Janicke’s research efforts have focused on building a successful program of research related to pediatric obesity, including a specific emphasis on translation and dissemination of treatments for pediatric obesity, psychosocial adjustment of overweight and obese youth, family and environmental factors impacting healthy and unhealthy weight loss behaviors, and health…

The long range goal of Dr. Pereira’s research program is to improve health outcomes and promote the well-being of individuals with chronic and/or life-limiting illnesses, with an emphasis on malignancies that occur commonly or exclusively among women. Grounded in the biobehavioral model of tumor growth and development, her research seeks…

Dr. Robinson studies a broad spectrum of topics related to the human pain experience. Specific topics include Placebo Analgesia, Patient Centered Outcomes, Sex, Race, and Age biases in decisions about pain, Psychological Factors in pain perception, Behavioral Interventions (Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for pain and insomnia, Manual Therapy, Placebo) and Coping with…

Dr. Smith’s research examines the time course and extent of respiratory muscle remodeling in response to respiratory muscle overload training, using a combination of basic science and clinical approaches. Her current research projects include 1) examining the biology of acute muscle remodeling following a respiratory overload, 2) using translational strategies…

Dr. Judge’s research is focused on understanding the molecular signaling pathways that cause skeletal muscle atrophy during periods of muscle disuse (cast immobilization), and during cancer, sepsis, peripheral arterial disease, and aging. In addition, ongoing work in his lab seeks to understand the role that specific proteins play in regulating…

Dr. Martin’s research efforts focus primarily on the development and implementation of respiratory muscle rehabilitation programs for lung transplant and ventilator dependent patients. The respiratory muscles are of interest because of the role they play in dyspnea perception, exercise tolerance and ventilator dependence. Weaning patients from mechanical ventilation is a…