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Areas of Expertise
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Shawn Applegarth, MSME
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- Mechanical Properties of Hip Protectors
- Sensor Array Technologies
- Mechanical Design and Fabrication
- Technologies for Safe Patient Handling and Movement
- Fuel Cell Technologies
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Tatjana Bulat, MD, CMD
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- Outpatient Fall Risk Assessment
- Issues surrounding hip protector use
- Medication management to reduce fall risk
- Osteoporosis in men
- Falls and mobility disorders in the elderly
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Robert Campbell, JD, MPH, PhD
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- Governmental affairs with an emphasis on medical malpractice and patient safety policy
- Patient safety quality monitoring systems development and benchmarking for providers
- Provider report cards, pay for performance, and other quality initiatives
- JCAHO Patient Safety accreditation initiatives (Hospital, Nursing Home, and Home Health.)
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Yvonne Friedman, MA, OTR/L
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Deborah Gavin-Dreshnack, PhD
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- Wheeled mobility for geriatric population
- Adaptive wheelchair seating
- Posture and positioning
- Safe patient handling and movement
- Wheelchair falls
- Wheelchair Wandering
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Jeff Harrow, MD, PhD, FACP
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- Pressure Ulcers
- Spinal Cord Injury Medicine
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Experience during Army mobilization
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Stephanie Hart-Hughes, PT, NCS
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- Fall risk assessment
- Analysis of gait and balance dysfunctions with emphasis on the elderly and patients with neurological disorders
- Fall and fall-related injury prevention technologies
- Rehabilitation of balance, gait and vestibular dysfunctions
- Functional outcome measures
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John Lloyd, Ph.D., M.Erg.S., CPE
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- Patient Care Ergonomics
- Occupational / Industrial / Workplace Ergonomics
- Biomechanics / Biodynamics of Injury
- Cumulative Trauma Disorders / Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- Technologies for Safe Patient Handling and Movement
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Mary Matz, MSPH
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- Patient Care Ergonomics
- Bariatric Safe Patient Handling and Movement
- Slips, Trips, and Falls in Healthcare
- Occupational Safety and Health in Healthcare Environments
- Fostering a Culture of Safety in Healthcare Environments
- Use of After Action Review and other Knowledge Transfer Mechanisms to reduce risk of injury in Healthcare Environments
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Audrey Nelson, PhD, RN, FAAN
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- Patient Safety
- Safe Patient Handling & Movement
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Gail Powell-Cope, PhD, ARNP, FAAN
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- A Systems Approach for Preventing Life-threatening Hospital Bed Entrapment
- Evidence-Based Practice for Nursing
- Building a Research Program in a Magnet Hospital
- Qualitative Health Research
- Conducting Focus Groups for Needs Assessment and Program Evaluation
- Conducting Surveys for Program Evaluation
- Promoting a Culture of Safety
- Measuring Success in Achieving a Culture of Safety
- Assessing Barriers and Facilitators for Implementing Evidence-Based Practice
- Using Formative Evaluation to Improve Implementation of Evidence-based Practice
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Etienne Pracht, Ph.D.
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- Econometric / statistical analysis
- Medicaid policy
- State Trauma Systems
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Patricia Quigley, PhD, MPH, ARNP, CRRN, FAAN
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- Adult Rehabilitation
- Reduction of Falls and Fall-Related Injuries
- Program Development and Evaluation
- Functional Evaluation in Rehabilitation
- Nurse Sensitive Indicators
- Nursing Satisfaction
- Magnet Credentialing Program
- Nursing Research Programs
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Brian Schulz, Ph.D.
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- Whole-body biomechanics
- Computational biomechanical modeling
- Compensatory mechanisms of fall prevention
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Kris Siddharthan, Ph.D.
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- Economic analysis and ergonomics
- Financial analysis of healthcare systems
- Treatment and costs of blast injuries from combat
- Telemedicine and telehealth models
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