2022 CAHS Research Day Winners

On April 27, 2022, The College of Allied Health Sciences Research Committee held the sixth annual Student College Research Day.

 

People’s Choice Winners:

       Best Oral Presentation:

    • Amber Ausley, Gabe Pate, Riley Horn, Chia-Cheng Lin, & Stacey Meardon. “Musculoskeletal injury and postural control across the lifespan”

       Best Poster (morning session):

    • Maggie Bowman, Madison Heavner, Anne Dickerson “Description Through Case Examples of a Participant in a Driving and Community Mobility Bootcamp”
    • Kathryn Fennie, Andrew J. Vermiglio, Virginia D. Driscoll, Ava Cunningham, Abigail Ormond, Erin Kokinda, Caitlyn Paulson, Reyse Stirret, Laura Hall “The Effect of Listener Group and Masker Condition on Auditory Working Memory”
    • Alyssa Adamkowski, Shellie Zsoldos, Megan Ferderber, Stacey A. Meardon, Chia-Cheng Lin, “Comparison of Characteristics between Concussed Adolescents with and without Physical Therapy Referral for Vestibular Rehabilitation”

        Best Poster (afternoon session):

    • Mary Hannah B. Wilson, Taylor D. Snodgrass, Megan N. Andrew, Kevin O’Brien, Thomas J. Sitzman, Jessica L. Williams, Davinder Singh, Jamie L. Perry “Using Velopharyngeal MRI for Comparison of Intravelar Length and Extravelar Length”
    • Allie Wilson, Julia Scott, Saryu Sharma, Erika Johnson, Natalia Jaworska, Sneha Mantri, Kathrin Rothermich “Changes in Anxiety and Depression Due to COVID-19 in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease”
    • Michela Vitagliano, Leah Whitehurst, Young Kim “The Differences Among Instrumental Activities of Daily Living and Physical Activity”

 

 Judge’s Award Winners:

          Oral Presentation Undergraduate:

      • Khadijah Hendrix; Elisa Morrissete-Smith, Brandon Stroud, Lauren Sastre “We Asked, Patients Answered: Preferences for a Produce RX Program”

            Oral Presentation MS/Clinical Doctorate:

      • Gabrielle Stowe, Camryn Heister, Eshan Schleif, Patrick Briley, Jamie L. Perry “Private Insurance vs. Medicaid: Impact on Initiation of Breast Milk Feeding Among Infants with CL±P”

            Oral Presentation Research Doctorate:

      • Ankur Padhye; John Wilson “Effect of Intrinsic Participant Characteristics on Joint Contact Force Asymmetry Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction”

            Best Undergraduate Poster:

      • Abigail Ormond, Andrew J. Vermiglio, Virginia D. Driscoll, Erin Kokinda, Caitlyn Paulson, Reyse Stirre, Ava Cunningham, Kathryn Fennie, Laura Hall “The Effect of Semantic Interference on Speech Perception in Noise Ability

          Best Graduate Poster:

    • Kelly MacDonald, Mallory Serpan, Sarah Dickey,Young Joo Kim “Impact of Children with Cerebral Palsy’s Enjoyment and Feedback on Mastery Motivation and RecoVR System Usage
    • Morgan Johnson, Johnanthony Cantu, Rui Wu, Brian Sylcott, Shanyu Guan, Chia-Cheng Lin “The Effect of Concurrent Visual and Auditory Attention Tasks on Brain Activity and Postural Control”
    • Tyler Ricks, Alexander Durland, Zac Womack, Chris Urbanek “Venous Abnormality with Suprascapular Nerve Entrapment in a Collegiate Baseball Pitcher
    • Taylor Luibrand, Chia-Cheng Lin, Kevin O’Brien, Riley Horn, Stacey Meardon “Determining the Predictive Validity of the STEADI Fall Risk Algorithm with and Without Somatosensation Inputs”

 

We congratulate the research achievements of all student-researchers and faculty within the College of Allied Health Sciences.