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Equine-Based Occupational Therapy To Develop Social And Emotional Skills In Adolescents: An Educational Video Series, Annabeth Dorris, Steven Gerardi, Angela Blackwell

Fall 2025 OTD Capstone Symposium

Adolescents experience rapid physical, emotional, and social changes that often challenge self-regulation and social-emotional skill development. Occupational therapy (OT) practitioners are equipped to address these needs through a variety of ways, like equine-based occupational therapy (EBOT), yet resources on this setting remain limited. This capstone project developed an educational video series to guide OT practitioners in using equine-based occupations to promote social-emotional learning (SEL) skills in adolescents, targeting self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making. The seven videos were posted to YouTube for easy access. This resource serves as a tool OT practitioners can use for knowledge and …

Regain Confidence Postpartum: A Guide For Pelvic Floor Health​, Taylor Jackson, Mary Jan Greer, Donna Carver

Fall 2025 OTD Capstone Symposium

Postpartum pelvic floor dysfunction can disrupt daily occupations such as toileting, hygiene, mobility, sexual health, sleep, and infant care. These challenges often reduce confidence and limit participation. Although pelvic floor issues are common, occupational therapy has not been widely recognized in this emerging area, leaving a gap in functional, client-centered support.

This capstone project developed Regain Confidence Postpartum: A Guide for Pelvic Floor Health, an occupation-focused resource designed to help postpartum individuals understand pelvic floor dysfunction and return to meaningful routines. A needs assessment was completed through clinical observation, discussions with providers at Purely Pelvic Floor, and a review …

Assistive Technology For Proper Seating And Positioning For Geriatrics, Jacee Lyons, Rebecca King

Fall 2025 OTD Capstone Symposium

The lack of staff education on pressure injury prevention places older adults at a higher risk of developing pressure injuries in a skilled nursing facility.

Program For Teachers To Address The Needs Of Students With Adhd, Ashton R. Wagner, Wendy Tremaine, Dr. Mary Jan Greer, Phd, Otr

Fall 2025 OTD Capstone Symposium

The capstone project focused on supporting teacher participants from Eden Gardens Fundamental Magnet Elementary by providing practical strategies to address students who struggle with attention, regulation, and daily classroom routines. After completing a needs assessment, it was clear that many teachers faced similar challenges, including difficulty with transitions, staying on task, and responding when students became overwhelmed. To address this, created an OT-led teacher-training program that uses the PEOP model and focuses on simple, practical strategies teachers can implement right away. This included visual cues, sensory and movement supports, and minor changes to the classroom setup. As teachers began using …

Bridging Sensory Processing And Community Integration For Adults With Idd: A Bilingual Approach, Stephanie J. Newman, Cynthia Haynes

Fall 2025 OTD Capstone Symposium

The capstone project included creation, implementation, and evaluation of an educational program. The program provided education for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their respective caregivers. The educational materials included development and implementation of educational workshops of sensory processing strategies in the community, work, and social settings for adults with IDD and bilingual home programs created for caregiver education. The program was evaluated through pre- and post-surveys administered to caregivers to demonstrate changes in knowledge of sensory processing strategies, as well as client assessments administered to assess changes in client understanding of sensory strategies.

Staying In The Game: Understanding The Impact Of Gaming On Musculoskeletal Health And Occupational Performance, Sereniti A. Forkey Dr, Zeida Gutierrez

Fall 2025 OTD Capstone Symposium

The purpose of this capstone is to examine the physical demands that gaming places on the musculoskeletal system and to gain a deeper understanding of gamers’ habits and behaviors. The goal of this project is to explore the population within its context, including psychosocial impacts and the potential need for intervention. By doing so, this research aims to provide valuable insights to both gamers and clinicians, supporting and enhancing occupational performance in gaming.

Educating Early Childhood Educators On Creating A Sensory Inclusive Classroom, Maryah Booker, Zeida Gutierrez, Maureen Fischer

Fall 2025 OTD Capstone Symposium

This capstone paper focuses on educating early childhood educators on sensory processing, helping them understand its impact on their students’ classroom activities, and equipping them with sensory-based strategies to support children with sensory differences, allowing them to thrive in a classroom environment.

Improving The Quality Of Life Of Adults With Visual Impairments Through An Occupational Therapy Lens, Vanessa R. Patel, Rebecca King, Jaimee Fielder

Fall 2025 OTD Capstone Symposium

Adults with visual impairments often experience decreased independence, safety concerns, and reduced confidence in daily occupations, particularly during meal preparation. This capstone project aimed to develop and implement an occupation-based educational program to support safe and independent cooking for adults with visual impairments. A needs assessment was conducted at Envision Dallas, resulting in a program focused on meal preparation and the use of adaptive strategies. The program consisted of twelve structured lessons delivered through a combination of individual sessions and group-based instruction. Outcomes were measured using pre- and post-session questionnaires, informal observation, and participant and family feedback. Results indicated improvements …

Improving Rest And Sleep For Hospitalized Individuals: An Occupation Based Approach, Margaret R. Greene, Lakesia Boykin

Fall 2025 OTD Capstone Symposium

Design and create an educational program for occupational therapy practitioners working within hospital environments, patients, and occupational therapy students on evidence grounded, occupation-based sleep activities to use with patients in inpatient rehabilitation hospitals. The educational program will contain modules focusing on the importance of sleep for overall health, how sleep impacts recovery, common environmental and personal factors impacting sleep, and interventions to help improve patient sleep. These educational modules and interventions will focus on the specific client and environmental factors within the occupational therapy scope of practice (American Occupational Therapy Association, 2020).

Occupational Therapy's Role In Maternal Health: Empowering Mothers Experiencing Postpartum Depression And Anxiety Through Education On Child Development, Phoebe Spernal, Keisa Boykin

Fall 2025 OTD Capstone Symposium

To empower mothers experiencing postpartum depression and anxiety by strengthening their maternal knowledge and self-efficacy in supporting their baby’s development through an occupational therapy-based educational program.

Educating High School Advisors On The Benefits Of Life Skills Education Prior To Post-Secondary Transition, Noble H. Steenbergen, Zeida Gutierrez

Fall 2025 OTD Capstone Symposium

To develop and provide a viable life skills program to high school educators, with the intent to educate students on life skills and reduce mental health problems during post-secondary transition

A Golfer's Guidebook For Prevention And Intervention For Golf Injuries, Brianna A. Martinez, Lesley Khan-Farooqi Phd, Otd, Otr

Fall 2025 OTD Capstone Symposium

The purpose of this capstone project was to create a guidebook for golfers who can be at increased risk for medial epicondylitis focused on prevention and intervention strategies to support productivity, leisure participation, and self-care.

Circulation Of Respiratory Viruses From Air And Human Specimens In A Pre-Kindergarten-12th Grade School District In Kansas City, Mo, Nicole Neeley, Brian Lee, Brittney Fritschmann, Luke Gard, Nibha Sagar, Dithi Banerjee, Anjana Sasidharan, Rangaraj Selvarangan, Olivia Almendares, Hannah L. Kirking, Jennifer Goldman, Jennifer E. Schuster

Posters

Background: Air sampling with respiratory virus testing in community settings may be a potential non-invasive, scalable method to monitor respiratory viruses. We performed an ecological analysis to describe the correlation between respiratory virus detections in air and human samples across all schools to evaluate the potential for air sampling as a tool for community-level surveillance. Methods: Knowledge of Infectious Diseases in Schools (School KIDS) is a voluntary respiratory virus surveillance program in a pre-kindergarten-12th grade public school district in Kansas City, MO. In 10 schools, students and staff collected anterior nasal swabs while at school, with optional on-demand swabbing when …

Une Com Research And Scholarship Fall Forum October 2025, Une Com Research & Scholarship

Osteopathic Student Research Symposia

Program including abstracts from the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine’s 2025 Research and Scholarship Fall Forum.

Supplemental content: List of award winners.

Increasing Clinical Internal Mobility Through A Student Nurse Technician Program, Radiance G. Bean

EBP Fellowship

Practice Problem: Currently 67% of internal applicants are hired into our nurse residency program. Feedback from nursing leadership suggests internal candidates often fall short in areas like interviewing skills and professionalism, making external candidates stronger. Given the higher education resources provided to team members and our organization’s commitment to internal mobility, identifying ways to support employees and retaining top nursing talent is a priority. Our EBP question is: Will participation in a Student Nurse Technician (SNT) program increase the percentage of Patient Care Technicians (PCTs) in good standing that are accepted into the nurse residency compared to the current …

Elevating Nursing Leadership: How Nurse Managers Empower Unit Practice Councils, Katie Fields

EBP Fellowship

Problem: Unit Practice Councils (UPCs) are foundational to Nursing Professional Governance (NPG), a structure that is designed to foster autonomy, accountability and authority for nurses. These councils are vital for empowering nurses to engage in decision-making and implementing practice changes. At one large pediatric hospital, UPC effectiveness varied across units, largely due to differences in nurse manager engagement and support. This variation highlighted a critical gap in how nurse managers were supporting UPCs within their unit. To close this gap, it was important to identify leadership best practices and behaviors that lead to successful UPCs. The following PICOT question …

Prenatal Exposure To Domestic Violence And Its Impact On Infant Stress-Response Development, Erica Cooper

Expo Student Presentations

2025 Fall Expo Online Poster Presentation

• Health Sciences & Health Professions
• Social & Behavioral Sciences

Therapeutic Silencing Of Integrin Α11 Attenuates Myofibroblast Activation In Vocal Fold Fibrosis, Linh P. Schiffer, Ryan M. Friedman, Yashna Gupta, Riccardo Gottardi

Annual Student Research Poster Session

Vocal fold scarring (VFS), a fibrotic condition of the lamina propria, commonly results from prolonged intubation or laryngeal trauma and leads to impaired vocal function and often irreversible dysphonia. Following injury, fibroblasts are activated by proinflammatory cytokines—particularly transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGFβ1)—which induces their differentiation into contractile, ECM-producing myofibroblasts. A key marker of this activation is alpha-smooth muscle actin (αSMA). Among the drivers of this fibrotic response is integrin α11β1, a collagen-binding transmembrane protein encoded by the ITGA11 gene. ITGA11 has been implicated in multiple fibrotic diseases due to its role in enhancing TGFβ1 signaling and promoting myofibroblast activation. …

Neonatal Early-Onset Sepsis: It’S Not Always What You Think, Gabriela M. Henriquez, Kedar Tilak, Douglas Swanson, Susana Chavez-Bueno

Posters

No abstract provided.

October 2025, Swosu Bulldog Wellness Committee

SWOSU BULLDOG WELLNESS

• October is National Dental Hygiene Month!
• Reminder: YOGA class Oct. 14th for SWOSU employees
• Spooktacular Step Challenge
• Home Fire Safety
• Wellness Committee has three standing desks to loan out
• National Family Health Month
• Autumn Word Search

Healthcare Informatics October 2025, Aga Khan University

Department of Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) Archives

• Message from the CMIO
• Update by Workgroup Leads
• AKUH-Karachi, OneHealth Activities
• Office of CMIO collaborate in Allied Health Conference
• Department Engagement
• SIMPACT 2025; The First Hour: Sepsis Simulation in an EHR-Driven Workflow
• Upcoming Event
• Academics Research Scholarship

Administración Y Organización Deportiva. Conceptos Y Aplicaciones, Myriam Andrea Beltrán Benavides, Daniel Mejía Lizarazo

Ciencias del Deporte y la Educación Física

Las organizaciones deportivas en su administración requieren incluir aspectos de gestión que abarquen y aseguren un correcto funcionamiento, desarrollo y cumplimiento de sus objetivos; estos elementos son esenciales para la eficiencia, sostenibilidad y crecimiento. En un entorno deportivo cada vez más competitivo y profesionalizado, integrar prácticas administrativas no solo consolidan estructuras organizativas sólidas, sino que además contribuyen al desarrollo integral del deporte a nivel local, nacional e internacional, de tal manera que una adecuada administración promueve la transparencia, mejora la comunicación interna y externa y contribuye al fortalecimiento de la relación con los grupos de interés.

09.29.2025 Ored Connect, Liz Williamson

ORED Newsletter

• Contest for Biosafety and Biosecurity Month
• ORED Website Walk Through training
• MIG Applications
• Field Fest

Chacahoula 2025, Volume 92, Alayna Pellegrin

Chacahoula

The 2025 issue of Chacahoula includes December 2024 and May 2025 graduating classes, as well as stunning photography student life on the banks of Bayou Desiard. With features covering students, faculty, and staff, this year's time capsule preserves an academic year in the life of the University of Louisiana at Monroe.

Curatorial Statement For Oral Histories Collection, Chandler D. Smith

LSUHSC Hurricane Katrina Archive: Oral Histories

This curatorial statement includes details about the conception and execution of the LSUHSC Hurricane Katrina Archive Oral Histories collection project by library faculty and staff. Updated version posted on April 29, 2026.

Pediatric Sickle Cell Disease Overview And Treatment, Michael Smith, Shabnam Arsiwala

Pediatrics in Practice: A CME Podcast

In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Shabnam Arsiwala, a leading pediatric specialist in sickle cell disease, to explore the essentials of caring for children living with this complex condition. Dr. Arsiwala shares insights on early diagnosis, routine management and the role of hydroxyurea in treatment. We also discuss common complications, psychosocial support for families, and exciting innovations on the horizon. Whether you're a general pediatrician or a specialist, this conversation offers practical guidance and fresh perspectives to enhance your clinical care.

Click here to stream the podcast episode.

Clinical Outcomes Of Neoadjuvant Chemoimmunotherapy Vs. Chemoradiotherapy In Operable Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, Tal Sherman, Nikta Nair, Marli Meller, Raleigh Anderson, Guillermo Jimenez, Elizaveta Flevora, Charalambos Solomides, Rita Axelrod, Sarah Gordon, Ida Micaily, Maria Werner-Wasik, Sung Whang, Tyler Grenda, Olugbenga Okusanya, Nathaniel R. Evans, Iii, Nilanjan Haldar, Erik Blomain

Department of Radiation Oncology Posters

Introduction

• Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) accounts for ~85% of lung cancers and remains the leading cause of cancer death.
• Surgery is curative for early-stage disease, but recurrence rates remain high.
• CheckMate-816 trial established neoadjuvant chemo-immunotherapy (chemo-IO) as a new standard for resectable NSCLC, demonstrating improved pathologic response and event-free survival.
• PACIFIC trial showed the survival benefit of consolidative immunotherapy after chemoradiotherapy (chemo-RT) in unresectable stage III NSCLC, highlighting the synergy between radiation and immune checkpoint blockade.
• Despite these advances, there is little comparative data on the role of chemo-IO versus chemo-RT in the neoadjuvant, operable setting.
• Objective: To compare …

Anatomically Accurate, Low-Cost 3d-Printed Nasopharynx Simulator For Nasolaryngoscopy Training, Tal Sherman, Robert Walker, Voichita Bar-Ad, Firas Mourtada

Department of Radiation Oncology Posters

Introduction

- Flexible nasopharyngolaryngoscopy (NPL) is a core diagnostic and procedural skill in otolaryngology, radiation oncology, and related specialties. Early mastery is essential for safe patient care, but traditional training is limited by:

• Reliance on patient encounters, which may cause discomfort and restrict practice opportunities.
• High cost of commercial simulators(often $3,000–$5,000), restricting access across many programs.
• Lack of anatomical accuracyin available models, limiting their educational value.

- Gap: There is currently no accessible, anatomically faithful, and affordable tool for widespread trainee use.

- Objective: To design, fabricate, and validate a low-cost, anatomically accurate 3D-printed simulator for training in flexible NPL

Intouch Week Of September 22, 2025, New York Medical College

InTouch

• Major Clinical Affiliate Metropolitan Celebrates 150 Years
• Phillip Capozzi, M.D., Library Hosts College History Celebration and Exhibit Dedication
• Ph.D. Lab Coat Ceremony Marks a Milestone in Biomedical Discovery
• Dr. Okeoma Unlocks Hidden Clues for Potential HIV Treatment
• New Area of Concentration in Health Systems Management Launched
• TCDM Celebrates Grand Opening of the Albuquerque Campus
• Faculty Spotlight: Srihari S. Naidu, M.D., FACP, FACC, FAHA, FSCAI, Pushing Boundaries in Treating Cardiovascular Disease

09.22.2025 Ored Connect, Liz Williamson

ORED Newsletter

• Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award
• MIG Application Opportunity
• 10th Annual Advancing MS Conference