Kendra Albert, Heather Hassett and Shayna Shackford make impressive showing at Annual Scientific Meeting of American Geriatrics Society

Three students represented UNECOM at the 2013 Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Geriatrics Society (AGS), which was held May 3-5, 2013, in Grapevine, Texas.  Abstracts by Heather Hassett, MS II, and Shayna Shackford, MS III, were selected as the “best of the best” of all submitted abstracts at the meeting. As a result, they participated in the AGS Presidential Poster Session, which contained approximately 200 posters, held on the evening of May 3rd.

Hassett received the the 2013 AGS Annual Scientific Meeting Presidential Poster Award in the Rehabilitation Category and was recognized in the 2013 AGS Awards Session on May 5th.   This is the 3rd time in 10 years that a UNECOM student has received this award.

Additionally, Hassett and Shackford, along with Kendra Albert, MSII, presented their posters in the Student Poster Session on May 5th.

Poster titles/authors are as follows:

1.    Does lumbopelvic pain alter gait patterns in older adults? Findings from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging H. Hassett1, E. Simonsick2,3, S. Ko4, G. Hicks5, L. Ferrucci2 1University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine, Biddeford, ME  2NIA-IRP (Intramural Research Program), Baltimore, MD  3Geriatric Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore MD  4Mechanical Engineering, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Jeonnam, South Korea  5Physical Therapy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

2.    Effects of Cognitive Impairment on Rehabilitation Outcomes in a Medical Psychiatric Unit S. Shackford1, Research Mentor2 1University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine, Biddeford; 2Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore MD

3.    Learning By Living Research: Living the Life of an Older Adult Nursing Home Resident K. Albert, OMSII; M. R. Gugliucci, Ph.D. University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine, Biddeford ME

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