More than 15,400 people gathered in Boston Feb. 15- 17, 2024 for the American Physical Therapy Association's Combined Sections Meeting, the largest physical therapy conference in the nation, and the learners, faculty, providers and alumni of UCSF and the UCSF/SFSU Graduate Program in Physical Therapy presented their research and connected with other physical therapists and rehabilitation experts from across the country.
Awards
- Jet Lee, PT, PhD and collaborators Joy Cohn, Dr. Mary Fisher, Dr. Shana Harrington, and Dr. Daniel Malone received the Stephen Gudas Award for Outstanding Publication in Rehabilitation Oncology, for their manuscript Screening and Assessment of Cancer-Related Fatigue: An Executive Summary and Road Map for Clinical Implementation.
- Maureen Soliman, PT, DPT and Yumi Kawakami, PT, DPT won an award for their poster: Impact of Novel Integration of Physical Therapy for Patients following ICU or Hospitalization and PASC / Long Covid in a Multi-disciplinary Follow-Up Clinic from the APTA’s Academy of Leadership and Innovation
Presentations
- Sam Pak, PT, DPT: Leveraging Health Informatics in Quality Improvement, Research and Education for 21st Century Physical Therapists
- Jet Lee, PT, DPT: A Clinical Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Cancer-Related Fatigue
Posters
- Natalie Anzures, PT, DPT, Monika Patel, PT, DPT: Assessing Interprofessional Collaboration-Related Competencies in Third-Year Doctor of Physical Therapy Students with a Complex Neurologic Population
- Alexander Dien, PT, DPT, Elliott Gann, PT, DPT, Jeffrey Sharon, MD, Natalie Anzures, PT, DPT: Assessing the Effectiveness of Head-Mounted Virtual Reality Vestibular Physical Therapy: A Case Series
- Elliot Gann, PT, DPT, Mark Manago, PT, DPT, PhD, Diane Allen, PT, PhD, Valerie J Block, PT, DPTSci, Alexander Dien, PT, DPT: Empowering People with MS Remotely: Telerehabilitation Enabled FES Boosts Step Count and Quality of Life
- Alex Hansen, PT, DPT, Yasmin Leon, SPT, Mariano Wechsler, PT, DPT, Jordan LaBrec, PT, DPT, Sang Pak, PT, DPT, Kurt Van Der Schalie, PT, DPT, Heather Bhide, PT, DPT: Enhancing Physical Therapy Access for Knee Impairments: The Fastrack Telehealth Quality Improvement Initiative
- Daniel Hernandez, PT, DPT, Erin Hallett PT, DPT, Matt Miller, PT, DPT, PhD, Philip Dumaligan, PT, DPT, Michelle Oberst, PT, DPT: Physical Therapist Barriers to Delirium Detection, Prevention, and Management in Neurologic Acute Care Setting
- Kayla Katzman, PT, DPT: Rehabilitation in a Patient with Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy Post Unilateral Scapulothoracic Fusion: A Case Report
- Joshua Johnson (incoming DPT student), Rich Souza, PT, PhD: Lower Limb Joint Work Contributions in Patients with Patellofemoral Joint Osteoarthritis During a Drop Jump Task
- Casey Nesbit, PT, DPT, DSc, Madison Young, PT, DPT, Chelsea Owens, PT, DPT: Rehabilitation and Blood Pressure Monitoring Training for Community Health Workers: A Ten-Year Study
- Mariano Wechsler, PT, DPT, Yuxi Jiang, MS, Victor Cheuy, PhD, Sang Pak, PT, DPT: Innovative Strategies to Identify Patients with Adhesive Capsulitis from Electronic Health Records