Dual Pandemics Spur Positive Connection Between MGH Institute and Boston Scientific
At the IHP’s annual fundraiser, “Growth Through Adversity: The IHP Today,” Boston Scientific CEO Michael Mahoney (left) and IHP Trustee Dr. Michael Jaff discussed the importance of supporting students of color achieving their goal of becoming health care professionals to care for an increasingly diverse population.
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SON Dean Elected President of the American Academy of Nursing
Dr. Kenneth R. White, the first man elected to the position, will focus on strengthening the organization’s commitment to advancing health equity through nursing leadership, innovation, and science during his two-year term.
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BSN Program Ranked in Top 10 Percent by U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report has published for the first time the rankings of Bachelor of Science in Nursing programs, and the IHP is ranked in the top 10% in the country.
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IHP Is Only College in New England to Receive 2021 HEED Award
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Employees Recognized at 2021 Ether Day Event
The annual Ether Day event was held virtually on October 19. The event recognizes employees who are celebrating milestone anniversaries with the IHP and/or in combination with employment at the Mass General Brigham health system or its affiliates.
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Team IHP Completes Boston Marathon in Support of IHP
In finishing the 26.2-mile course on October 11, Bridget Carroll, OTD '22 and Lauren Chesnard, BSN '12 fulfilled their goal of raising much-needed funds to support the Sanders IMPACT Practice Center and launch a new endowed scholarship fund.
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For Visiting Undergrads, a Primer on Careers in Health Care
School of Nursing Dean Dr. Kenneth White’s long-held passion for patient advocacy resonated with students from the University of Richmond during their recent visit to campus.
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PA Graduates Take the Road Less Traveled
For 2018 graduates Sylvia Brandenberg and Dan McGuire, working as physician assistants while traveling the country and living in an Airstream trailer is something the newly married couple has embraced with a passion.
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A Virtual Observation of Kids
The annual Interprofessional Child Development Day event, affectionately known as “Baby Day,” involved 305 direct-entry students and 35 faculty on October 29. The virtual event included 33 young children ages between 4.5 months and 3 years – many of whose parents are IHP faculty, alumni, and staff – who played while students observed them and focused on understanding the roles and responsibilities of the various health care professionals in developmental assessment.
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OT Faculty and Students Present
Research at Annual Conference
Faculty and students from the Department of Occupational Therapy gave 16 presentations during the Massachusetts Association of Occupational Therapy's annual conference, held October 25-29.
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MSN Class of 2023 Receive White Coats, Pins, and Awards
Alaina Boucher, one of 102 members of the Master of Science in Nursing Class of 2023, was the student speaker at the cohort’s Generalist Completion and White Coat Ceremony on October 28. The event also featured Dr. Kaveri Roy as keynote speaker, and the presentation of several awards to students from the Massachusetts General Hospital Nurses’ Alumni Association which represents graduates of the former hospital nursing school that existed from 1895–1981.
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Gayun Chan-Smutko, MS, CGC, associate chair in the Department of Genetic Counseling, is a co-recipient of the Audrey Heimler Special Projects Award from the National Society of Genetic Counselors. The award will fund a year-long project in 2022, “Intra-Professional Anti-Racism Dialogue Series,” or IPADS, for 100 practicing genetic counselors across the U.S. This work will parallel the on-going Anti-Racism Dialogue series collaboratively headed by the team that also includes Annie Bao (Northwestern University), Amanda Bergner (Columbia University), and Janelle Villiers (Sarah Lawrence College).
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Rania Karim, PT, DPT, GCS, an assistant professor of physical therapy, was selected to serve on the APTA Geriatrics National Senior Games Task Force. The group will work in collaboration with the National Senior Games Association to promote the needs of older adult athletes, create co-branded educational materials, recruit and train volunteers to participate in screening athletes during the National Senior Games events in 2022 and 2023, and participate in screening athletes at those events.
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Aimee Perron, PT, DPT ’07, NCS, CEEAA, an instructor of physical therapy, received the 2021 Professional Achievement Award from Sargent College at Boston University. The award recognizes the school’s alumni for using their education for the advancement of health and rehabilitation sciences. She also is a regional clinical director at Genesis Rehab Services.
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Ariel Schwartz, PhD, OT/L, an assistant professor of occupational therapy, received a Switzer Fellowship from the National Institute on Disability Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research. She will build on her previous research on peer mentoring for young adults with intellectual/developmental disabilities (IDD) and co-occurring mental health conditions. In this intervention program, young adults with IDD provide mentorship to support other young adults with IDD monitor their emotions and utilize coping strategies to reduce the impact of mental health symptoms. This specific study will focus on bolstering the skills of the peer mentors. This grant will also provide students with clinical learning opportunities, as they engage in research and support the peer mentors in their own roles as mentors.
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Lesley Smith, PT, DPT ’08, MS, GCS, an instructor of physical therapy, was a panelist on “2021 Skills Workshops: Getting into Health Professional School and Succeeding Webinar” on October 7 as part of Harvard Medical School’s Office for Diversity, Inclusion & Community Partnership and the Biomedical Sciences Careers program.
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Jessica Loeser, Michelle Molle, and Jenifer Feeley (l-r) were among those who helped out at the Staff Council’s Community Service Committee bake sale on October 26. The sale raised $392 which will go to support the IHP Food Pantry that is expected to begin during the spring semester.
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Victoria Tilton-Bolowsky, a student in the PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences program and a lab member with the Cognitive Neuroscience Group, is the PI for the 2021 Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT) Global Student Grant. “Incorporating strategy training into naming treatment to improve generalization in aphasia” is a one-year award which she will use to complete her dissertation.
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Publications
Al Dahhan, N. Z., Mesite, L., Feller, M. J. (CSD ’04), & Christodoulou, J. A. (2021). Identifying reading disabilities: A survey of practitioners. Learning Disability Quarterly, 44(4), 235–247. https://doi.org/10.1177/0731948721998707
Alt, M., Fox, A., Levy, R., Hogan, T. P., Cowan, N., & Gray, S. (2021). Phonological working memory and central executive function differ in children with typical development and dyslexia. Dyslexia (Chichester, England), 10.1002/dys.1699. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/dys.1699
Marks, K. L., Verdi, A., Toles, L. E., Stipancic, K. L., Ortiz, A. J., Hillman, R. E., & Mehta, D. D. (2021). Psychometric analysis of an ecological vocal effort scale in individuals with and without vocal hyperfunction during activities of daily living. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 1–16. Advance online publication.
Pollack, C., Wilmot, D., Centanni, T., Halverson, K., Frosch, I., D'Mello, A., Romeo, R., Imhof, A., Capella, J., Wade, K., Al Dahhan, N., Gabrieli, J.D.E., & Christodoulou, J. A. (2021). Anxiety, motivation, and competence in mathematics and reading for children with and without learning difficulties. Frontiers in Psychology.
Van Stan, J. H. (PhD ’16), Whyte, J., Duffy, J. R., Barkmeier-Kraemer, J., Doyle, P., Gherson, S., Kelchner, L., Muise, J., Petty, B., Roy, N., Stemple, J., Thibeault, S., & Tolejano, C. J. (2021). Voice therapy according to the rehabilitation treatment specification system: Expert consensus ingredients and targets. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 30(9), 2169–2201. https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_AJSLP-21-00076
Valle, C. L., Chenausky, K., & Tager-Flusberg, H. (2021). How do minimally verbal children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder use communicative gestures to complement their spoken language abilities? Autism & Developmental Language Impairments, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1177/23969415211035065
Young, I. M., Halvorson-Bourgeois, B., Maxwell, L., Nicholas, M., & Riotte, M. (2021) Anti-oppressive practice: An integral component of a graduate curriculum. Teaching and Learning in Communication Sciences & Disorders: Vol. 5: Issue 3, Article 4. https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/tlcsd/vol5/iss3/4
Rishi, P., Nunn, K., Arbel, Y., Pittman, R., & Vallila-Rohter, S. (October 2021). Examining Cognitive-Linguistic and Learning Abilities in People with Aphasia Utilizing Language Retrieval and Novel Object Pairing Tasks. Poster. Academy of Aphasia Conference. Virtual.
Rajkovic, A. (GC ’21), Cirino, A. L., Berro, T., Koeller, D. R., & Zayhowski, K. (2021). Transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) individuals' perspectives on research seeking genetic variants associated with TGD identities: A qualitative study. Journal of Community Genetics, 10.1007/s12687-021-00554-z. Advance online publication.
Leighton, K., Kardong-Edgren, S., McNelis, A., & Sullo, E. (2021). Learning outcomes attributed to prelicensure clinical education in nursing: A systematic review of qualitative research. Nurse Educator. Advance online publication.
Banks, M. (DNP ’18), & Phillips, A. B. (2021). Evaluating the effect of automated hand hygiene technology on compliance and C. difficile rates in a long-term acute care hospital. American Journal of Infection Control, 49(6), 727–732.
Chisholm, H., Kershaw, T., Sotelo Guerra, L., Bocek, K., Garcia, Y., & Casey Lion, K. (2021). A realist evaluation analysis of a novel multi-faceted inpatient patient navigation program. Academic pediatrics, S1876-2859(21)00450-2. Advance online publication https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acap.2021.09.009
Hill, R. R., Lee, C. S., & Pados, B. F. (2021). The prevalence of ankyloglossia in children aged <1 year: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Pediatric Research, 90(2), 259–266.
Hillier, M. M., DeGrazia, M., Mott, S., Taylor, M., Manning, M. J., O'Brien, M., Schenkel, S. R., Cole, A., & Hickey, P. A. (2021). Utilizing high-fidelity simulation to improve newly licensed pediatric intensive care unit nurses' experiences with end-of-life care. Journal for Specialists in Pediatric Nursing, e12360. Advance online publication.
Pusey-Reid, E., Quinn, L., & Foley, C. A. (2021). Review of COVID-19 for nurses. MEDSURG Nursing, 30(5), 297–333.
Riley, M., & Olans, R. D. (2021). Implementing an antimicrobial stewardship program in the ICU by engaging critical care nurses. Critical Care Clinics. Online.
Rogers, A. H., Epps, F., Hendricksen, M., Roach, A., Akunor, H. S., & Lopez, R. P. (2021). Trust of nursing home staff caring for residents with advanced dementia: A qualitative descriptive study of family caregivers' perspectives. Geriatric Nursing, 42(6), 1362–1366. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gerinurse.2021.09.003
Abu, D. S. M. N., Alheresh, R. A., Malkawi, S. H., Saleh, M., & Wong, J. (2021). Participation patterns and determinants of participation of young children with cerebral palsy. Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, 68(3), 195–204.
Bleau, M., Jaiswal, A., Holzhey, P., Aubin, G., Do, A., Dumassais, S., Mirmiran, R., Tangkhpanya, F., & Wittich, W. (2021). Use of three-dimensional printing as a rehabilitation tool for individuals with deafblindness or vision impairment: a scoping review protocol. JBI Evidence Synthesis, 19(10), 2790–2800. https://doi.org/10.11124/JBIES-20-00374
Eddy, E. Z., Tickle-Degnen, L., & Evenson, M. E. (2021). Occupational therapy fieldwork educators: Examining professional quality of life. Work (Reading, Mass.), 10.3233/WOR-213586. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.3233/WOR-213586
Jones, H., Young, M., Guyton, K., Idemoto, E., Ferraro, A., & AlHeresh, R. (2021). Effectiveness of ergonomic interventions on work activity limitations in adults with rheumatoid arthritis: A systematic review. American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM) Annual Conference (Virtual), September 24−29, 2021. Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, 102(10), e90–e91.
Fasoli, S. (2021). Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System: Principles and Application in Rehabilitation Education, Research, and Clinical Practice. Course. American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine 98th Conference.
Fasoli, S. (2021). Implementing the Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System (RTSS) in Health Professions Education. Symposium. American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine 98th Conference.
Waterhouse, C., Rajala, C., Evans, E., Fishbein, N. S., Bannon, S., Kazis, L. E., Erler, K., Giacino, J., Slavin, M., Bergin, M., & Zafonte, R. (2021). Virtual Focus Groups for Remote Qualitative Research in Individuals with Brain Injury: Challenges and Lessons Learned. Poster session. American College of Rehabilitation Medicine 98th Annual Conference.
Golden, K., Erler, K., Wong, J., Joseph T. Giacino, J, T., & Bodien, Y. G. (2021). Should Consistent Command Following Be Added to the Criteria for Emergence From the Minimally Conscious State? An empirical investigation. Poster session. American College of Rehabilitation Medicine 98th Annual Conference.
Stock, T. (2021). The Role of Occupational Therapy in Postsecondary Transition Planning. Therapro.
Plummer, P. (2021). Critically appraised paper: Implicit motor learning is not superior to explicit motor learning for improving gait speed in chronic stroke [synopsis]. Journal of Physiotherapy (Elsevier), 67(4), 311. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jphys.2021.09.002
Schmidt, C. T., Ogarek, J., & Resnik, L. (2021). Physical therapy and health care Utilization for older adults with lumbar spinal stenosis. Journal of Geriatric Physical Therapy (2001), 10.1519/JPT.0000000000000328. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1519/JPT.0000000000000328
Roseen, E. J., Rajendran, I., Stein, P., Fredman, L., Fink, H. A., LaValley, M. P., & Saper, R. B. (2021). Association of back pain with mortality: A systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies. JGIM: Journal of General Internal Medicine, 36(10), 3148–3158. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-021-06732-6
Teixeira, P., Pacheco-Barrios, K., Uygur-Kucukseymen, E., Machado, R. M., Balbuena-Pareja, A., Giannoni-Luza, S., Luna-Cuadros, M. A., Cardenas-Rojas, A., Gonzalez-Mego, P., Mejia-Pando, P. F., Wagner, T., Dipietro, L., & Fregni, F. (2021). Electroencephalography signatures for conditioned pain modulation and pain perception in non-specific chronic low back pain - an exploratory study. Pain Medicine (Malden, Mass.), pnab293. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/pm/pnab293
SHRS
Kaur, M., Eddy, E. Z., & Tiwari, D. (2021). A survey of physical therapists and occupational therapists to explore practice patterns of pediatric telerehabilitation during COVID-19. Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, 102(10), e15–e16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2021.07.435
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Valerie Rucker, DPT ’15, is one of just 100 physical therapists named a 2021 Centennial Scholar by the American Physical Therapy Association. Dr. Rucker, who works at Capital Physical Therapy in Maryland, is participating in the 12-month program which develops future leaders in the profession.
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Amirra (Johnson) Condelee, OTD ’19, has received the 2021 Arizona Occupational Therapy Association’s Outstanding Occupational Therapists of the Year Award.
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Preeti Rishi, CSD ’21, has been awarded an Academy of Aphasia National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) Young Investigator Travel Fellowship in recognition of her thesis work.
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Navigating the Workplace with Disabilities Talk Held
The Offices of Alumni Relations and Student Affairs and Services hosted a virtual webinar, “Disabled not Disadvantaged: Perspectives on Navigating the Workplace with Disabilities,” on October 6 to commemorate National Employment Disability Awareness Month. Alums Ariel Bohn, MS, CCC-SLP, ’16, and Manu Thakral, PhD, MSN, ’15, along with Zary Amirhosseini, MEd, disability program manager at MGH, shared their insights on disclosing one’s disability, how colleagues can serve as allies, and the ways in which disabled workers add significant value to a team.
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Victoria Tilton-Bolowsky, a student in the PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences program and a lab member with the Cognitive Neuroscience Group, has received the 2021 Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences Conference Student Fellowship and the 2021 National Collegiate Cancer Foundation Survivor Scholarship.
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Kristen Nunn, a student in the PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences program and a lab member with the Cognitive Neuroscience Group, has been awarded the Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences (ANCDS) Conference Fellowship and the Gregory L. Lof Dissertation Support Fund award to support data collection for her dissertation research.
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Isabella Ravanesi, a second-year physician assistant studies student, was awarded the National Health Service Corps Scholarship from the U.S. Health Resources & Service Administration. In exchange for two years of service in a rural HRSA-score approved site that is underserved and in need, the scholarship will pay for tuition and school-related fees plus provide a monthly stipend. She plans to work in a primary care setting upon graduation.
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Carla Tierney-Hendricks, a student in the PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences program who also works as a lab member with the Cognitive Neuroscience Group, has been awarded the ASHFoundation New Century Doctoral Scholarship. The prestigious award supports strong doctoral candidates pursuing a teacher-investigator career.
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Students in the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program gave flu shots throughout October to MGB employees at Massachusetts General Hospital, Assembly Row, and Building 149 in Charlestown Navy Yard (pictured).
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The nursing student group Students for Equity and Anti-Racism (SEA) held the SEA mixer for students to meet and mingle with SON faculty and leadership. The mixer was sponsored by the SON and Sigma Theta Tau- Upsilon Lambda Chapter.
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Stepping Stones Part Two Is Now Available
This past August, MGB launched Stepping Stones, its anti-racism educational program that helps viewers understand how racism exists and functions in our society — and how they can combat it. Part one of Stepping Stones consists of two allegories narrated by Dr. Camara Jones, and is accessible via HealthStream.
Part two of Stepping Stones shares two new allegories that expand on the idea of how racial equity affects ourselves, our colleagues, institutions, workplaces and the patients we care for. Part two is now available for all employees via HealthStream or by searching for “Stepping Stones Part 2” in the HealthStream catalog.
The third allegory is Cement Dust, which shows how racism hurts everyone in our society and how we can actively work to dismantle it. The fourth allegory is A Tale of Two Neighborhoods, which incorporates the lessons of all previous allegories to show how race, racism and racial equity impacts Mass General Brigham and the communities we serve. The Stepping Stones learning guide has been updated to include discussion questions for all four allegories.
All Stepping Stones videos are available in six languages: English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese and French.
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Carla Tierney-Hendricks, PhD Research Fellow, CSD
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Elena Deocampo, Program Coordinator, PT
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Riley Keefe, Research Administration and Operations Coordinator, Research
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Steven Meyer, Lab Manager, Speech in Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (SPAN) Lab
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Support the IHP all year long by shopping with AmazonSmile. Just sign in to your Amazon or Amazon Prime account and the AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.05% of the proceeds from your qualifying purchases to the IHP. Contact Christopher Bjork in the Office of Development for more information.
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Submissions, Feedback, etc.
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Please submit suggestions or comments about any issue at the IHP to President Milone-Nuzzo's online suggestion box, Institute Input.
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November Calendar
4:00-5:00 p.m. Virtual.
11/25: Thanksgiving break. Institute reopens November 29.
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