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Sandra Rosenberg working on a patients wound
Providing effective, team-based wound care and educating healthcare providers about it meets a huge need
Laura with Kenya patients
Clerkship course enables DPT students to gain empathy for, experience with victims of torture
Dr. Linda Koehler demonstrates using telehealth
Women’s health research award enabling faculty member to gain insight into prevalent post-breast cancer surgery condition

HEADLINES

How does a sense of injustice affect spinal cord injury patients? Faculty member poised to discover more, thanks to a DOD grant

Since 2016, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Assistant Professor Kimberley Monden, PhD, has been interested in the role that appraisals of injustice play in the psychosocial outcomes of individuals living with spinal cord injuries (SCI), resulting from trauma, illness, or genetic predisposition.
Five faculty members named to MplsStPaul Magazine's Top Doctors: Rising Stars list

Congratulations to the Rehabilitation Medicine Department faculty members who are part of MplsStPaul Magazine’s 2021 “Top Doctors: Rising Stars” list.
Pediatric Physiatrist enables department to provide care for an important patient population

When you think about Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, you might focus primarily on what it can do for adults. Assistant Professor John Fox, DO, Director of the Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine Program in the Division of PM&R, has a different perspective.
New faculty member brings an essential perspective to her work with cancer patients

As Director of the Rehabilitation Medicine Cancer Program at the U, Assistant Professor Florence John, MD, MPH, has undertaken a visionary approach to her rehabilitation medicine work. 
Douglas Whiteside steps into presidency of national organization during a time of momentous change and opportunity

On February 5, 2021, Professor and Adult Neuropsychology Postdoctoral Program Director Douglas Whiteside, PhD, ABPP/CN, officially stepped into the presidency of the Association of Postdoctoral Programs in Clinical Neuropsychology.

Weekly Rehab Reviews

Rehab Review highlights events and news from around the Department.