Faculty: Christina Papadimitriou, Ph.D.  

Students: Achsah John, Allison Katz

We work with rehab clinicians and caregivers of persons who cannot self-report due to severe cognitive disabilities. We study shared decision-making (SDM) among clinicians, caregivers and patients in the clinic. We are developing an observer assessment that would capture skills of SDM.

Faculty: Christina Papadimitriou, Ph.D.  

Student: Hanna Gipson

A team based in Chicago that is revising an existing training curriculum to train people with disabilities to become Peer Navigators (PN). These PN will subsequently use the intervention to empower newly disabled adults with physical disabilities meet their community participation goals. 

Faculty: Jennifer Lucarelli, Ph.D.

Student: Haley Negri

Utilizing case study research with existing Michigan-based produce prescription programs to understand program management and technology needs. The team will work to build a collaborative technology platform to streamline program management and evaluation that will improve the cost effectiveness of PPRs, provide better evaluation data across programs, and improve the sustainability and reach of these programs. 

Faculty: Jennifer Lucarelli, Ph.D.

Student: Victoria Jobczyk

Preliminary work for a housing related project that community partners have been interested in launching. This will involve digging into background information on local policies and practices related to access to low income housing in Oakland County. 

Faculty: Edward Rohn, Ph.D.

Student: Riyam Alnaseri

The objective of the study is two-fold: 1) to improve understanding of the ways in which patients and clinicians communicate, negotiate, and make decisions around spinal cord injury (SCI)-related chronic pain (CP) management, in order to 2) inform the tailoring of an existing shared decision-making (SDM) aid to address CP decision-making processes specifically for persons with SCI and their healthcare professionals (HCPs). This study applies a novel, mixed methods approach. In particular, the use of video ethnography combined with video elicitation interviews to provide new insights. Synthesizing anticipated findings into the development of an Option Grid SDM aid for SCI-CP will contribute new tools for SCI-CP care. Vetting this aid with community stakeholders will assure its applicability and usefulness.

Faculty: Emily Van Wasshenova, Ph.D.

Students: Andrew Johnson, Paige Eacker

The project is still in the development stages, but generally the aim is to identify gaps in the literature on health behaviors and disordered eating in college athletes. If the grant is funded, we will collaborate with the OU Athletic Department for this project - this department may have additional aims or purposes that will be added onto the project.

Faculty: Kate Rougeau, Ph.D.

Students: Isabella Tamulevich, Kimberly Campbell, Linda Yousif, Orjona Shtalbi, Sebastian Naman, Kinda Al-Sanouri, Brooklyn Orozco

The HACE study aims to decipher psychophysiological effects of different types of cycling (volitional vs motor-driven). By using a custom build cycle ergometer (bike) we will be examining the effects of physical activity (PA) on hormones (testosterone & cortisol), emotional affect (calmness, tension, energy, tiredness, & state-anxiety) as well as personality differences and behavior decision making during and following active (volitional) and passive (motor-driven) cycling.

It is our aim to transition to collect pilot data from individuals with spinal cord injuries by summer for a grant application.