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Commencement 2022

Commencement 2022, held on May 13, was a day of joy and celebration. The main story details the IHP’s largest-ever commencement, with 612 students in the Class of 2022 graduating, as well as comments from several of the day’s speakers and a listing of people who were recognized for their contributions to the school. In a second story, new graduates talk about how they persevered through the pandemic to complete their studies. A third story is about how Provost Dr. Alex F. Johnson, who will be retiring in June, was honored at his final graduation ceremony.
Celebrating Student Scholarship

Graduating students in the Occupational Therapy and Genetic Counseling programs presented their scholarships at events prior to Commencement.
Provost Dr. Alex F. Johnson wrote in an Op-Ed in The Boston Globe that while there is not one single solution to curbing mass murders, the same strategy used to treat illnesses should be applied to the gun violence epidemic.
Dr. Tiffany Hogan, Director of the SAiL Lab, was interviewed in “Here Are the Signs You Might Have Adult Dyslexia
(and What to Do About It),” published by LifeHacker.
Dr. Kathy Simmonds, Coordinator of the Women's Health/Gender-Related NP Track and an associate professor of nursing, was quoted about the possibility of the Supreme Court reversing Roe v. Wade in the Patch: Massachusetts Leaders Pledge to Help Out-of-State Abortion Patients
Olesya Simonova, a 2022 Master of Science in Nursing graduate, was profiled in the Boston Globe story War in Ukraine Shadows Newton nursing school student and
Two nurses associated with the IHP were profiled in Mass General Brigham system-wide emails to celebrate Nurses Month in May: Associate Professor of Nursing Dr. Eleonor Pusey-Reid and 2015 BSN graduate Heather Pietrantonio. Both stories are in The Pulse, which requires an MGB username and password to access.
Isha Vora, a student in the PhD of Rehabilitation Sciences program, received the 2022 Fletcher H. McDowell Award from the American Society for Neurorehabilitation for the best clinical science poster presented by a student, resident, or post-doctoral fellow, or a clinician within five years of training.
Celebrating Retirement

Two long-time members of the IHP community were recognized for their dedication, commitment, and service at a May 4 retirement ceremony. Joan Blue (left), Administrative and Project Specialist for Programs and Events for the School of Nursing, is retiring after 25 years while Dr. Mary Evenson, Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Education in the Department of Occupational Therapy, is retiring after 10 years. We wish them well as they enter a new chapter in their lives.
Dr. Abraham Ndiwane, an Associate Professor of Nursing, was appointed to the ad-hoc Racial Equity Commission in Malden, where he lives.
Dr. Janice Palaganas, Associate Chair of Health Professions Education, was a Visiting Professor at the Mayo Clinic Multidisciplinary Simulation Center, where she consulted on healthcare simulation program development, distance simulation, feedback tips and techniques, faculty development, and curriculum innovations
Dr. Kimberly Truong, Chief Equity Officer, co-presented a panel discussion, “A Conversation on Asian American Pacific Islander Experiences” with Dr. John Co and Aswita Tan-McGrory at Mass General Brigham’s 6th annual DE&I Summit.
Grant
Dr. Ruth Palan Lopez, Associate Dean of Nursing Research, is the co-PI of the four-year, NIH grant, “Robotic Caregiver to Comprehend, Assist, Relieve, and Evaluate Patients with Alzheimer's Disease.” The IHP is the subcontractor through the University of Tennessee Knoxville.
The second edition of the textbook Defining Excellence in Simulation Programs was recently released. Edited by Dr. Janice Palaganas, contributing authors include faculty, staff, and students Roger Edwards, Patricia Reidy, Eric Bauman, Jill Sanko, Matt Charnetski, Hani Lababidi, Ginny Do, and Anne Weaver.
Publications, Presentations & Posters


Apreleva Kolomeytseva, A. T., Brylev, L., Eshghi, M., Bottaeva, Z., Zhang, J., Fachner, J. C., & Street, A. J. (2022). Home-based music therapy to support bulbar and respiratory functions of persons with early and mid-stage amyotrophic laterial sclerosis: Protocol and results from a feasibility study. Brain Sciences, 12(4) Article 494.

Baron, L. S., & Arbel, Y. (2022). An implicit-explicit framework for intervention methods in developmental language disorder. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_AJSLP-21-00172

Gul, A., Baron, L., & Arbel, Y. (2022). Feedback processing during probabilistic learning in children with developmental language disorder: An event-related potential study. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. Advance online publication.

Lee, Y., Fritz, K., Dagli, C., Nicholas, M. L., & Connor, L. T. (2022). Social support fully mediates the association between communication abilities and social participation among persons with post-stroke aphasia. Aphasiology. Advance online publication.

Quique, Y. M., Evans, W. S., Ortega-Llebaría, M., Zipse, L., & Dickey, M. W. (2022). Get in sync: Active ingredients and patient profiles in scripted-sentence learning in Spanish speakers with aphasia. JSLHR, 65(4). 
 
Arbel, Y. (2022, April). Learning in children with developmental language disorder (DLD): How theory-based examinations inform practice. UMass Amherst 2022 Professional Development Conference, Amherst, MA.
 
Tilton-Bolowsky, V., Nunn, K., & Zipse, L. (2022) Performance discrepancies on adult language assessments: Barriers to examining the racial and ethnic diversity of validation samples [Poster]. Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Wrightsville Beach, NC.
 
Kershenbaum, A., Shattuck-Hufnagel, S., & Zipse, L. (2022). The effect of prosodic timing structure on speech production in people with aphasia: A pilot investigation [Poster]. Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Wrightsville Beach, NC.


Armstrong, B., Christensen, K. D., Genetti, C. A., Parad, R. B., Robinson, J. O., Blout Zawatsky, C. L., Zettler, B., Beggs, A. H., Holm, I. A., Green, R. C., McGuire, A. L., Smith, H.S., Stevens Smith, H., Pereira, S., & BabySeq Project Team. (2022). Parental attitudes toward standard newborn screening and newborn genomic sequencing: Findings from the BabySeq Study. Frontiers in Genetics, 13, Article 867371.

O'Grady, L., Schrier, Vergano, S. A., Hoffman, T. L., Sarco, D., Cherny, S., Bryant, E., Schultz-Rogers, L., Chung, W., Sacharow, S., Immken, L. L., Holder, S., Blackwell, R. R., Buchanan, C., Yusupov, R., Lecoquierre, F., Guerrot, A. M., Rodan, L., de Vries, B. B. A., Kamsteeg, E, J., ...Gold, N. B. (2022). Heterozygous variants in PRPF8 are associated with neurodevelopmental disorders. American Journal of Medical Genetics. Part A. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajmg.a.62772

HEALTHCARE LEADERSHIP

Earnshaw, V. A., Watson, R. J., Eaton, L. A., Brousseau, N. M., Laurenceau, J. P., & Fox,
A. B. (2022). Integrating time into stigma and health research. Nature Reviews Psychology, 1(4), 236-247. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44159-022-00034-2


Andersen, P., Kardong-Edgren, S., Schleicher, M., Koontz, J. Walsh, K., (2022). A simulation pilot study comparing art-enhanced debriefing and traditional debriefing. Clinical Simulation in Nursing, 67, 49-57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecns.2022.02.014

Cant, R., Ryan, C., & Kardong-Edgren, S. (2022). Virtual simulation studies in nursing education: A bibliometric analysis of the top 100 cited studies, 2021. Nurse Education Today, 114, Article 105385. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2022.105385

Duff, J., Kardong-Edgren, S., Chang, T. P., Elkin, R. L., Ramachandra, G., Stapleton, S., Palaganas, J. C., Kou, M., & Gross, I. T. (2021). Closing the gap: A call for a common blueprint for remote distance telesimulation. BMJ Simultation & Technology Enhanced Learning, 7(4), 185-187. https://pesquisa.bvsalud.org/global-literature-on-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov/resource/en/covidwho-1191342

Mosher, C. J., Morton, A., Tarbet, A., & Palaganas, J. C. (2022). Factors of engagement in synchronous online learning conversations and distance debriefing: A realist synthesis review. Simulation in Healthcare. Advance online publication.

Palaganas, J. C., Charnetski, M., Dowell, S., Chan, A. K. M., & Leighton, K. (2021). Cultural considerations in debriefing: A systematic review of the literature. BMJ Simulation & Technology Enhanced Learning, 7(6), 605-610.

Pojednic, R., D'Arpino, E. (MS ’23), Halliday, I., & Bantham, A. (2022). The benefits of physical activity for people with obesity, independent of weight loss: A systematic review. International Journal of Environmental Research in Public Health, 19(9), Article 4981. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19094981


Dixon, M. E., White, K. R., Hinton, I., DeGennaro, R., & Dowling, T. (2022). A stakeholder evaluation of an RN-to-BSN academic progression program. Journal of Nursing Administration. Advance online publication.

MacDonald, A. & Pusey-Reid, E. (2022). Writing effective and equitable academic policies
for nursing programs. Nurse Educator. Advance online publication.

Pusey-Reid, E., & Blackman-Richards, N. (2022). The importance of addressing racial microaggression in nursing education. Nurse Education Today, Article 105390. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2022.105390

Pusey-Reid, E., Gona, C. M., Lussier-Duynstee, P., & Gall, G. (2022). Microaggressions: Black students' experiences: A qualitative study. Journal of Professional Nursing, 40, 73-78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.profnurs.2022.03.004

Pusey-Reid, E. (2022 March). Does a scarcity of dark skin tone imagery in nursing and health care literature affect patient quality of care and health care provider competency? A HOPE Nurses Conference, Harvard University Center for AIDS Research, Boston.


Mack, A., & Hildebrand, M. (2022). Education and training interventions for caregivers of people with stroke (January 1, 1999-December 31, 2019). American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 76(3), Article 7603393040.

Mack, A., & Hildebrand, M. (2022). Interventions using cognitive-behavioral therapy techniques for caregivers of people with stroke (January 1, 1999-December 31, 2019). American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 76(3), Article 703393040.

Sigurdardottir, M., Fenger, F., & Schwartz, A. E. (2022). Psychometric testing of the Icelandic Occupational Self-Assessment (OSA-IS). Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy. Advance online publication.

Tiwari, S., Qi, L., Wong, J., & Han, Z. (2022). Association of peripheral manifestation of brain-derived neurotrophic factor with depression: A meta-analysis. Brain and Behavior, Article e32581. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.2581


Keeney, T., Kumar, A., Erler, K. S., & Karmarkar, A. M. (2022). Making the case for patient-reported outcomes measures in big-data rehabilitation research: Implications for optimizing patient-centered care. Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, 103(5), S140-S145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2020.12.028


Mandel, D., Moody, S. (PA '23), Pan, K., Subramaniam, T., Thompson, B.B., Wendell, L.C., Reznik, M.E., Furie, K.L., Mahta, A. (2022). A quantitative model to differentiate nonaneurysmal perimesencephalic subarachnoid hemorrhage from aneurysmal etiology. Journal of Neurosurgery. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.3171/2022.3.JNS22157


Contesse, M. G., Lowes, L. P., White, M. K., Dalle Pazze, L., McSherry, C., Alfano, L. N., Iammarino, M., Reash, N., Bonarrigo, K., Kiefer, M., Laubscher, K., McIntyre, M., Mockler, S., Nelson, L., Vogel, L., & Leffler, M. G. (2022). Development of Duchenne Video Assessment scorecards to evaluate ease of movement among those with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. PLoS One, 17(4), Article e0266845.
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