On May 22nd, this annual event co-sponsored by the Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, brought experts from around the world to the University of Pittsburgh to share research and honor some outstanding work that has been done over the prior year -- and representatives from both the Wireless RERC and ST4P were there to present.
Randy Huzenic, ST4P Team member and a physical therapist at the UPMC Rehabilitation Institute and ST4P team member, won the staff award for best rehabilitation research for the study: Huzinec R, Smith I, Boninger M, Worobey L, “Disparity of Smart Home Technology Use Among Individuals Who Have Spinal Cord Injury/Disease.”
Yifan Xiang, a student research assistant on the Wireless Tech RERC R1 Voice of Providers Survey Project, presented results from our recently published scoping review:
Dicianno, B. E., Salh, A., Morris, L ,Xiang, Y., & Ding, D.(2024). Rehabilitation clinicians’ use of mainstream wireless technologies in practice: a scoping review. Disability & Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 1-19.