Aug. 19, 2021
23 Health Professions students, faculty and staff help new students move in
Aug. 20, 2021 Twenty-three Health Professions students, faculty and staff helped students move into residence halls Aug. 19. Health Professions Dean Kristofer Hagglund, left, and Loren Bauerband, Health Sciences assistant professor, center, help a student move in at Southwest Village.
Aug. 17, 2021
Telehealth helped physical therapists support patients virtually during pandemic, MU study finds
August 18, 2021 Story contact: Brian Consiglio, 573-882-9144, consigliob@missouri.edu As a pediatric physical therapist in Clinton, Missouri, Jessica Luechtefeld was used to a hands-on coaching approach whenever meeting with her patients at their preschools, in their homes or at the Child’s Play Therapy clinic. But the COVID-19 pandemic forced physical therapists like Luechtefeld to cancel in-person sessions and quickly transition to telehealth appointments to continue providing essential care. While the switch to telehealth showcased new opportunities for how critical therapy services can still be delivered virtually, a new study at the University of Missouri found it also exposed some…
July 18, 2021
Neurologic Physical Therapy Residency connects residents with entry-level PT students
Lindsay Holland, Mizzou Therapy Services, MPT ’07 A new residency program gives physical therapists an opportunity to improve their clinical practice and specialize in neurologic physical therapy. The Neurologic Physical Therapy Residency is a joint venture between the School of Health Professions’ Department of Physical Therapy and MU Health Care. Lindsay Holland, MPT ’07, directs the program, and Rebecca Bliss, an assistant teaching professor, serves as program coordinator. Holland is a physical therapist at Mizzou Therapy Services. Residents will receive classroom instruction four hours a week in the Department of Physical Therapy, serve as teaching assistants in the department’s pro bono teaching clinic, PhysZOU, and receive training and hands-on instruction at…
July 17, 2021
Human trafficking: Who is being trafficked and what can we do?
MU expert in human trafficking explains common misconceptions and the demographics of trafficking survivors throughout the state. The views and opinions expressed in this “for expert comment” release are based on research and/or opinions of the researcher(s) and/or faculty member(s) and do not reflect the University’s official stance. In 2013, the United Nations named July 30 as “World Day Against Trafficking in Persons” to draw attention to the thousands of men, women and children who are trafficked each year. The hope is “to portray survivors as key actors in the fight against trafficking and the crucial role they play…
July 15, 2021
‘How Did We End Up Back Here Again?’ (The Atlantic)
For America, the pandemic might be fading. For places like southwest Missouri, this year will be worse than last.
July 13, 2021
Virtual schooling exposes digital challenges for Black families, MU study finds
July 14, 2021 Contact: Brian Consiglio, 573-882-9144, consigliob@missouri.edu A new study from the University of Missouri found the unanticipated transitions to virtual schooling due to COVID-19 exposed the lack of digital resources among Black families in the United States, including access to Wi-Fi and technological savviness. The findings help explain the extensive stress virtual schooling caused for many Black families trying to keep their children learning and engaged online while at home during the pandemic. “What we found was parents and caregivers often felt disempowered in the rapidly changing environment, as they did not necessarily…
July 6, 2021
Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences alumna crowned Miss Pennsylvania
July 7, 2021 While many students change their career aspirations several times throughout high school and college, Meghan Sinisi, who graduated in May 2021 with an MHS in Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences, always knew she wanted to work to benefit the autism community. Now that she’s been crowned Miss Pennsylvania, she’ll advocate for people with autism in a more informed way after completing the Speech-Pathology program in the Mizzou School of Health Professions. Sinisi first heard about Mizzou from her undergraduate college mentor, who relocated to Columbia and knew that Mizzou had the Thompson Center for Autism…
July 5, 2021
Collaboration to improve swallowing treatment for cancer patients
July 6, 2021 By Kelsey Pritchett Stephanie Knollhoff, assistant professor in the Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, recently received a University of Missouri Research Council Grant to investigate a swallowing rehabilitation technique in individuals with cancer. This project explores an alternative approach to swallowing treatment for individuals undergoing radiation treatment for head and neck cancer. Dr. Knollhoff and her co-investigators, Laura Dooley and Gregory Biedermann at the Ellis Fischel Cancer Center, are striving to carefully construct protocols that balance the individual burden and pain during oncologic treatment with improved participation in therapy to obtain best swallowing outcomes. The…
June 29, 2021
NextGen offers new possibilities for MU researchers addressing health disparities
June 29, 2021 Contact: Kenny Gerling, gerlingk@missouri.edu Loren Bauerband, an assistant professor in the Department of Health Sciences in the University of Missouri School of Health Professions, uses large data sets gathered from many sources — often called big data — to research health disparities facing transgender and gender-nonconforming individuals. Their work is complicated by the limitations of available data, which is often incomplete or not representative of the population. “We know that transgender individuals experience a lot of barriers to health care and access in general,” Bauerband said. “What I do is extend data about those topics to…
June 16, 2021
Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences professor receives U.S. patent
June 17, 2021 By Kelsey Pritchett The Department of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences is excited to share that Mili Kuruvilla-Dugdale, assistant professor of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences, was part of a team of inventors who recently received a patent from the U.S. Patent Office. The team consisted of two speech-language pathologists, Kuruvilla-Dugdale and Teresa Lever of the School of Medicine, and two engineers, Filiz Bunyak and Yunxin Zhao of the College of Engineering. The speech-language pathologists identified the health care need and business potential; the engineers developed the software system. “Clinician-scientist collaborations are critical to developing feasible solutions…