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APTA CSM Meeting - February 6th-9th, 2008 -
Emory Party Feb 8th 6:00pm-8:00pm
Alumni Reception meeting will be held on February 8th, 2008.

LOCATION: Gaylord Opryland Conference Center @ Resort
Ryman Studios A & B
DATE: Friday, February 8, 2008
TIME: 6:00PM - 8:00 PM

We look forward to seeing everyone there!

Steve Wolf, PT, PhD, FAPTA will be presented the John P. Maley Award from the Section on Research for his outstanding contributions to leadership in research in physical therapy. Steve sustained and made phenomenal contribution as a researcher.

Bruce Greenfield, PT, PhD, OCS will be presented the Stanford Award by the Journal of Physical Therapy Education at the Combined Sections Meeting of the American Physical Therapy Association in February 2008. Stanford Award is given to an author of a paper “containing the most influential education ideas.” Dr. Greenfield will receive this award for his article on “The Role of Emotions in Ethical Decision Making: Implications for Physical Therapist Education”

Faculty and students receive a grant from the Office of University-Community Partnerships”. This grant will support the Development and implementation of a new elective course in service learning. The project was initiated by a group of our DPT students who became involved in the Southern Georgia Farm workers Health Project in 2007. For faculty this grant presents an opportunity to develop and institutionalize a model of service learning for all physical therapy students. Our thanks to the OUCP and to Doctors Greene and Freed, and DPT students Megan Brock, Anna Fidler, Rebecca Halperin, Mindy Hite, Megan McLees and Lori Northcraft.

DPT Students, faculty and staff gather for a “Welcome Back Party” in January. It’s a time for catching up with each other and having a fun, relaxing evening. Photo 1... Photo 2...

Emory is offering a new DPT-MPH joint degree More...

New Teaching Space In 2007, we moved to new teaching space! Read more and see photos...

First Students, Faculty & Staff 5K Fun Run The first annual students, faculty and staff fun run occurred over a stretch of 5 kilometers of green space in Lullwater Park. Read more and see photos...

Kudos go to Deborah Backus, PT, PhD who was just awarded post-doctoral funding for a pilot study on “Timing of rehabilitation interventions to promote functional recovery in rats with incomplete SCI”. Dr. Backus will be performing this research with Barbara Bregman, PT, PhD, who is a professor at Georgetown University medical Center and is the PI on the grant (NICHD/NINDS HD050845).

Congratulations! Sarah Blanton, DPT, Assistant Professor in the Division of Physical Therapy is the first recipient of a grant from the new Comprehensive Neuroscience Center. Dr. Blanton work focuses on recovery in stroke survivors. Her study will examine the impact of a family-focused interventional education program on both caregiver and patient outcomes. "While family members' management of a stroke survivor's care has been associated with faster and more extensive recovery after stroke, family caregivers often experience negative outcomes from this role, which can be due to inadequate caregiver knowledge, skills and family support, as well as certain behaviors of the stroke survivor," says Blanton. The long-term goal of her research is to improve outcomes of the stroke survivor family unit as a whole. Dr. Blanton has recently established a new Constraint-Induced Therapy Clinic for people who have had a stroke and experience weakness or immobility in a hand and/or arm.

Press release can be found here: http://whsc.emory.edu/press_releases2.cfm?announcement_id_seq=10823

PT Division EXTENSION newsletter - FALL 2006

2007 Gayle G. Arnold Award Dr. Jeanne R. Charles, Assistant Professor in the Division of Physical Therapy, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine will be presented the 2007 Gayle G. Arnold Award for the Best Scientific Paper by the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine for her manuscript entitled "Efficacy of Hand-Arm Intensive Bimanual Training (HABIT) on Upper Extremity Movement in Children with Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy."   

The award will be presented to Dr. Charles at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Academy in Vancouver, BC, Canada in October 2007.

Special Accolades! One of our faculty members, Steve Wolf, PT, PhD, FAPTA, is a co-author of an article that has received not one, but TWO awards for “outstanding article”. The paper “Memory and behavior changes in stroke survivors” by Clark PC, Dunbar SB, Aycock DM, Courtney E and Wolf SL was published in Rehabilitation Nursing, I53:406-413;2006 and was the Editor’s Choice Award Recipient for the J Rehab Nursing and the 2006 Stroke Article of the Year Award from the Council of Cardiovascular Nursing. The study was funded through NINR (P Clark) and the Extremity Constraint Induced Therapy Evaluation (EXCITE) randomized clinical trial funded through NIH (S Wolf). The EXCITE study explored the effect of constraint-induced movement therapy (forced use) of the hemiplegic upper extremity on recovery of movement function among patients who sustained a stroke.

Congratulations! 2006 Emory DPT graduate Ben Braxley has been elected to the office of Membership Secretary for the Physical Therapy Association of Georgia (PTAG).

Online Application is now Available!
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Emory and the APTA - More...

Service of Gratitude - More...

DPT classroom panel - More...

Congratulations to the graduating class of 2006
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Welcome Incoming DPT Students,
class of 2009 Please visit the "For Incoming Students" site for helpful information.