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By David DeFusco
Jane, a 20-year-old flag football player, jammed her left pinkie finger during a game with her college club team. The injury bent her finger at the middle joint, where it got stuck in that position because of swelling due to ligament damage. In order to facilitate Jane’s healing, Brynna Kaplan, a student […]
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By Dave DeFusco
You’re scrolling through your Twitter feed and you see something new. Maybe it’s a section called “For You” that curates content based on your previous activity, or it’s “Views” that tells you how many times your tweets have been viewed. If you asked Katz School AI Instructor David Sweet, who has […]
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By Dave DeFusco
Dr. Amiya Waldman-Levi, clinical associate professor in the Katz School’s Occupational Therapy Doctorate program, has been awarded the 2022 Cordelia Myers AJOT Best Article Award for her study linking the development of playfulness in infants to the cognitive functioning of toddlers.
She and her co-authors Dr. Dana Shai, principal investigator of […]
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By Dave DeFusco
Imagine someone talking in a video conference while a piece of music is playing in the background. Besides being distracting, the music makes it hard for you to understand the speaker when you’re listening afterward to the recording.
Dr. Youshan Zhang, assistant professor of computer science and artificial intelligence, and Jialu […]
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Dr. Marissa Barrera, director of the Katz School’s M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology, provided over 400 registered dietitians and nutritionists (RDN) expert training in how to screen for swallowing disorders—a condition known as dysphagia—during the Food and Nutrition Conference & Expo (FNCE) in October.
The screening process for swallowing difficulties has only recently become a […]
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By Dave DeFusco
New York City traffic jams tend to begin with clusters of tie-ups within a network of streets before expanding rapidly and chaotically to surrounding areas, according to a paper published by two professors in the Katz School’s M.A. in Physics.
In the paper, “Cascading Traffic Jamming in a Two-Dimensional Motter […]
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By Dave DeFusco
A recently published chapter on Abuse and Violence Prevention by Thomas Balga, clinical assistant professor in the Katz School’s M.S. in Physician Assistant Studies, offers clinicians a guide for the comprehensive and compassionate care of the 3 million children who are victims of abuse each year.
The federal Centers for Disease […]
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By Dave DeFusco
Fatigue plays a significant role in how people with Multiple Sclerosis and their clinicians perceive and identify cognitive difficulties, according to a recently published paper co-authored by Dr. Marissa Barrera, assistant dean of health sciences and director of the Katz School’s M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology.
Fatigue dictates a patient’s perception of […]
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By Dave DeFusco
Several faculty members of the Katz School Occupational Therapy Doctorate program played a key role at the recent annual conference of the New York State Occupational Therapy Association (NYSOTA).
Dr. Mindy Garfinkel, a clinical associate professor and assistant director of the OT Doctorate program, received an award during NYSOTA’s president’s reception […]
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By Dave DeFusco
Anne, a 50-something churchgoer, lost her speech after a stroke. She had trouble coming up with the right words and stringing them into sentences—a condition called aphasia—until Dani Weingarten, a graduate of the Katz School’s M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology (SLP), took on her case.
Anne was a client at New York […]
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