Professional Notes: February 2022
02/23/2022
A round-up of awards, presentations, papers and the other professional achievements of SLU faculty, staff members and students.
Faculty and Staff
Kim Levenhagen, Ph.D. (Physical Therapy and Athletic Training) recently earned awards from two different academies of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA). Levenhagen was the recipient of the Katherine Harris Educator Award from the Acute Care Academy. In addition, she was the recipient of the Award of Excellence in Academic Education by the Academy of Clinical Electrophysiology and Wound Management.
The Katherine Harris Educator Award was created in honor of the life and work of Dr. Katherine Harris. The recipient is an outstanding physical therapy educator who has made major contributions in the area of acute physical therapy education.
The Academy of Clinical Electrophysiology and Wound Management (ACEWM) is a component of the American Physical Therapy Association consisting of approximately 1,000 physical therapy practitioners and students interested in electrophysiology, biophysical agents, wound management and neuromusculoskeletal ultrasonography. In her nomination, the ACEWM described Levenhagen as “dedicated to the students’ growth in their clinical abilities and understanding as seen in the creativity, innovation and thoughtfulness for the experiential nature of learning.”
Nori Katagiri, Ph.D. (Political Science) received an honor from the Japanese government. The Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) presented Katagiri a letter of appreciation for all the contributions that he have made the past few years at the Air Command and Staff College . The award came with a plaque, formal letter of appreciation signed by a lieutenant general officer, commandant of the college, and other Air Force goods. Katagiri was a visiting fellow at the college between 2016-18, wrote a newsletter article, and gave several lectures to active-duty JASDF officers as part of his contribution.
Christina Garretto, D.O. (Family and Community Medicine) was recognized by Marquis Who's Who for Excellence in Family Medicine . Individuals profiled are selected on factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field. Garretto has served as a physician for more than 15 years.
Marcus Painter, Ph.D. (Finance) won the Best Paper in Corporate Finance award for his paper, “Firm Statements, Consumer Political Beliefs, and the Limits of Stakeholder Capitalism,” at the Financial Management Association International Meetings in Denver.
Jintong Tang, Ph.D. (Management) has been invited to serve as a Senior Editor for the Asia Pacific Journal of Management.
Barnali Gupta, Ph.D. (Chaifetz School of Business Dean) has been appointed to the Cortex Innovation Community Board of Directors.
Tassos Kaburakis, Ph.D. (Management) has been appointed as Lead Consultant for the NCAA International Student-Athletes Think Tank, continuing work from the NCAA’s Inclusion Forum in May 2021.
Kenton Johnston, Ph.D. (Health Management and Policy) co-authored the study, "Comparison of Ambulatory Care Access and Quality for Beneficiaries With Disabilities Covered by Medicare Advantage vs Traditional Medicare Insurance" in the Journal of American Medicine (JAMA) Health Forum. Research findings were highlighted in First Report Managed Care.
Additionally Johnston and colleagues published the research opinion piece titled "Americans with Disabilities Are a Health Disparity Population That Deserves Greater Attention and Resources" in The Milbank Quarterly.
Darcell P. Scharff, Ph.D. (Behavioral Science and Health Education) and Kimberly R. Enard, Ph.D. (Health Management and Policy) and colleagues published the study "Community Health Worker Impact on Knowledge, Antenatal Care, And Birth Outcomes: A Systematic Review" in the Maternal and Child Health Journal.
Echu Liu, Ph.D. (Health Management and Policy) and colleagues published research titled "Health Insurance Literacy and Medical Debt in Middle-Age Americans" in the HLRP (Health Literacy Research and Practice) forum on Healio.
Cheryl Rathert, Ph.D. (Health Management and Policy) published the research article "Are Online Patient Reviews Associated With Health Care Outcomes? A Systematic Review of the Literature" in Medical Care Research and Review.
Michael Rozier, S.J., Ph.D. (Health Management and Policy) and colleagues conducted the research titled "Funding Community Health Activities: An Experiment Comparing Health Foundation's Priorities to Those of Public Health Agencies, Hospitals, and Nonprofit Organizations" in the Journal of Public Health Management & Practice.
Rozier and colleagues also produced the research article titled "Electronic Health Records as Biased Tools or Tools Against Bias: A Conceptual Model" in The Milbank Quarterly.
Matt Grawitch, Ph.D. (School for Professional Studies) published an article, "The Great Resignation Is Mostly a Great Overhype" in Psychology Today.
Research led by Jeffrey Scherrer, Ph.D. (Family and Community Medicine) was highlighted in Drug Topics and U.S. Pharmacist. Results of the clinical investigation, published recently in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, concluded that the receipt of both the HZV (herpes zoster virus) and Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis) vaccinations can reduce dementia risk by half.
Paul Boal (Health and Clinical Outcomes Research) published an article, "How Hospital Pricing Data Can Help Cut Costs and Improve Employee Benefits" in the HR Daily Advisor.
Bruce O'Neill, Ph.D. (Sociology and Anthropology) published the article, "Stuck here: boredom, migration, and the homeless imaginary in post-socialist Bucharest" in the journal, Urban Geography (42:9): 1292-1309.
Yolonda Wilson, Ph.D. (Health Care Ethics & African American Studies) has a chapter on caregiving published in the book, "The Black Agenda Report: Bold Solutions For a Broken System." The first of its kind, the book is a collection bringing together leading Black scholars and experts for a policy-oriented approach to the fight for racial justice in America.
Emily S. Reisenbichler, M.D. (Pathology-Anatomic) recently published the study, "Determination of the number of observers needed to evaluate a subjective test and its application in two PD-L1 studies" in the journal Statistics in Medicine. The Observers Needed for Evaluation of Subjective Tests (ONEST) is a new method developed to determine the optimal number of pathologists needed to improve the accuracy of disease diagnosis.
A study co-authored by Dillon Fuchsman, Ph.D. (Vice President for Research) about retirement benefits for educators was highlighted in Benefits Pro. Fuchsman is a postdoctoral fellow in the Sinquefield Center for Applied Economic Research at SLU.
Oluwatoyosi (Olu) Owoeye, Ph.D. (Physical Therapy and Athletic Training) recently published a new paper in the Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy. The paper dealt with a neuromuscular training warm-up program that reduced ankle and knee injury rates among youth basketball players.
Jason Longhurst, Ph.D. (Physical Therapy and Athletic Training) published two manuscripts with colleagues from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, the Cleveland Clinic, and Baylor University. "Dual Task Performance Is Associated with Amyloidosis in Cognitively Healthy Adults" was the Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease and "Factors predicting fear of falling avoidance behavior in parkinsonisms" was published in NeuroRehabilitation.
Grant Kaplan, Ph.D. (Theological Studies) will give a keynote address at a three-day, regional conference, titled “Vatican II and Catholic Higher Education: Leading Forward.” The conference will be held at Sacred Heart University on the 60th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II) Oct. 13-15, 2022.
Jin Huang, Ph.D. (Social Work) presented insights from a study on financial capability and asset building in the United States at the First National Forum of the Financial Social Work Commission. The forum was held Jan. 8, 2022, in Beijing, China. Established in 2020, the Financial Social Work Commission of the China Association of Social Work Education operates as a hub for sharing research and insights into social work education strategies for improving the financial capability and developing the assets of vulnerable populations.
Joanne C. Langan, Ph.D. (Nursing) was invited to present a Webinar for the Missouri State Board of Nursing. Title, "Shared Faculty: Consideration to Ensure Success." The webinar was attended by Missouri's Schools of Nursing deans and directors.
Anthony Breitbach, Ph.D. (Physical Therapy and Athletic Training) collaborated with Katie Eliot Ph.D. (University of Oklahoma) on Monday, Jan. 31, to facilitate a Writers' Workshop faculty development session for the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio's Linking Interprofessional Networks for Collaboration (LINC) Quality Enhancement Plan.
Kim Levenhagen, Ph.D. (Physical Therapy and Athletic Training) and Jessica Barreca (Physical Therapy and Athletic Training) presented an education session titled, "A New Universal Standard: Trauma Informed Care" at the American Physical Therapy Association's Combined Sections meeting in San Antonio, Texas on Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022.
Levenhagen and Barreca also presented an education session titled, "Your CBCs and ABGs Integrating Lab Values to Optimize Human Movement" at the American Physical Therapy Association's Combined Sections meeting in San Antonio, Texas on Friday, Feb. 4, 2022.
Levenhagen also presented an education session titled, "Creating a Plan to Implement Evidence Based Practice in Your Practice" at the American Physical Therapy Association's Combined Sections meeting in San Antonio, Texas on Thursday, February 3, 2022.
Chris Sebelski, Ph.D. (Physical Therapy and Athletic Training) Kayla Dougherty (Physical Therapy and Athletic Training); and Jill Imgarten (Physical Therapy and Athletic Training) presented a paper “A Curricular Model for Integrating Leadership Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Into Residency Training.” Educational Session Presentation, was peer reviewed at Combined Sections 2022 for the American Physical Therapy Association.
Jason Longhurst, Ph.D. (Physical Therapy and Athletic Training) and colleagues from the Cleveland Clinic, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Boston University, and Baylor University presented two posters ("Differences in spatiotemporal gait characteristics between freezing of gait subtypes in Parkinson disease" and "Task-specific physical therapy in non-remitting spinal myoclonus: a case report") at the 2022 Combined Sections Meeting of the American Physical Therapy Association in San Antonio.
Patrick Corrigan, Ph.D. (Physical Therapy and Athletic Training) presented his research entitled "Foot or ankle pain as a risk factor for worsening knee pain: the MOST study" at the American Physical Therapy Association's Combined Sections Meeting in San Antonio, Texas. Dr. Corrigan and his colleagues showed that foot or ankle pain is a risk factor for increasing knee pain.
Tom Burroughs, Ph.D. (Health Management and Policy & Biostatistics and Epidemiology) was elected to serve a three-year term on the Academy of Science St. Louis' board of trustees. The news was highlighted by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Nori Katagiri, Ph.D. (Political Science) has been appointed a senior fellow for the Irregular Warfare Initiative at the US Military Academy at West Point.
Ángeles Encinar, Ph.D. (SLU Madrid, Spanish) was featured on Spanish national radio (RNE-1), reporting on the writer Juan Eduardo Zúñiga.
Students
A team of graduate students from the Richard A. Chaifetz School of Business recently took home third place in Texas Christian University’s annual Graduate Supply Chain Case Competition.
The event, which was hosted Feb. 3 to Feb. 5 by TCU’s Neeley School of Business, challenges MBA and Master’s in Supply Chain Management students from some of the top business schools in the country to analyze a case study for a well-known company and present their findings to a panel of supply chain experts serving as judges. This year’s competition featured teams from 18 schools including Georgia Tech, the University of Michigan and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
SLU’s team consisted of three students: Constantin Heider (M.S. in Supply Chain Management), Rio Pimentel and Lindsey Teague (both One-Year MBA students). The students analyzed a case study involving American Airlines. Justin Goodson and Yulia Vorotyntseva served as faculty advisors for the team.
Three students from Saint Louis University's Richard A. Chaifetz School of Business have been named as Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR) 2020-2021 Scholars at SLU. The scholarship is a program that assists business students interested in commercial real estate.
The three recipients, senior Adam Huyen, senior Artur Pach and junior Grace Lauer, were honored at a luncheon and St. Louis SIOR club members’ meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 20.
A result of a partnership between the St. Louis SIOR chapter, the SIOR Foundation – the national charitable arm of SIOR – and SLU, the scholarship has been awarded to Billiken business students for the past seven years.
In addition to the funds, the scholarship provides an opportunity for the SIOR Scholars to meet and engage with professionals working in commercial real estate in St. Louis, potentially leading to the development of mentoring and advising relationships, internships and/or permanent employment opportunities for the Scholars.
Jordan Mason (Joint Ph.D. Student: Theology/Health Care Ethics), along with two HCE Alums Annie Friedrich, Ph.D. and Jay Malone, Ph.D., have an article titled "Rethinking explainability: toward a postphenomenology of black-box artificial intelligence in medicine" published in Ethics and Information Technology.