UPMC Physiatrists and Fellows to Present at the Association of Academic Physiatrists (AAP) Annual Meeting

The UPMC Rehabilitation Institute and the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation will be well-represented at the 2023 Association of Academic Physiatrists (AAP) Annual Meeting, which will take place February 21-24 in Anaheim, Ca.

Physiatry ’23 will bring together 1,500+ rehabilitation professionals for four days of 800+ poster presentations, 75+ educational sessions, 50+ exhibitors, and several networking events. The conference will also include the President’s Reception, hosted by AAP’s President Gwendolyn Sowa, MD, PhD, and sponsored by UPMC.

Following is a list of workshops, presentations, and poster sessions to be delivered by UPMC physicians, researchers, residents, and fellows. 

Presentations

• Karen Barr, MD, Max Hurwitz, DO, & Angela Garcia, MD: Interactive Mentoring Skills Practice: A Framework to Enhance your Mentoring Conversations

February 23, 3:30 – 5 pm

• Allison Bean, MD, PhD: Finding Your Why: Developing a Personal Mission, Vision, and Values for Early Career Physiatrists

February 23, 3:30 – 5 pm

• Michael Boninger, MD:

> Changing Jobs/Transitions, Rehabilitation Scientist Training Program (RMSTP)

February 22, 11:15 am – 12:15 pm

> Negotiations Lecture and Panel (RMSTP Program)

February 23, 2 – 3 pm

• Brad Dicianno, MD: Leveraging the Power of Digital Health to Improve Rehabilitation Outcomes

February 22, 3:30 – 5 pm

• James Eubanks, MD: The Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System: Opening the Black Box of Rehabilitation

February 23, 3:30 – 5 pm

• Wendy Helkowski, MD: So, You Want to be a Program Director? (PAL Program)

February 22, 3:30 – 5 pm

• Betty Liu, MD & Angela Garcia, MD: Acupuncture as Gateway to Wellness in PM&R

February 24, 2:45 – 4:15 pm

• Michael Munin, MD: Management of Spastic Hemiplegic Gait

February 23, 3:30 – 5 pm

• Christopher Standaert, MD, Joseph Shivers, MD, & James Eubanks, MD: From the Frontiers of Healthcare Transformation: A Fellowship in Value-Based Spine and Musculoskeletal Medicine

February 22, 8 – 9 am

• Gwendolyn Sowa, MD, PhD: An Interprofessional, Lifestyle Medicine Approach to Musculoskeletal Pain: The Latest Evidence

February 22, 3:30 – 5 pm

Resident/Fellow Presentations

• Jessica Prokup, MD: National Curriculum Initiative in Developmental Medicine: Community-Engaged Scholarship in Action

February 24, 1:15 – 2:15 pm

• Nicholas Race, MD, PhD: RMSTP Scientific Papers

February 24, 9:15 – 10 am

Resident/Fellow Posters

• Roshawn Brown, MD: Metformin Inhibits Scar Tissue Formation in Wounded Tendon Healing

• Kerry Cerana, MD: Use of Dynamic Ultrasound and Diagnostic Injection for Diagnosis of Atypical Sternoclavicular Joint Sprain

• Michelle Eventov, MD: The B12 Bounce Back: Successful Treatment of Nitrous Oxide-Induced Spinal Cord Injury

• Michael Glicksman, MD: Refractory Right Upper Extremity Pain and Paresthesias Due to Neurovascular Thoracic Outlet Syndrome

• Lisa Godbold, MD:

> A Case of Neuralgic Amyotrophy After COVID-19 Vaccination in a Young Healthy Female

> Transient Cerebellar Mutism from Right Cerebellar Intraparenchymal Hemorrhage (IPH) in a 24-year-old Woman

• April Hyon, MD: Using Ultrasound to Uncover Fibrolipomatous Hamartoma in the Electromyography Lab

• Kristen Milleville, MD:

> A Case of Musculocutaneous and Radial Nerve Injury after the Latarjet Procedure

> A Case of Treatment-Resistant Post-COVID Neurogenic Orthostatic Hypotension in Inpatient Rehabilitation (IPR)

• Deklerk Mgankam, MD: Posttraumatic Movement Disorder–Dyskinesia

• Nicholas Race, MD, PhD: Anxiety-spectrum Psychosocial Dysfunction, Safety Learning Impairments, and Altered Social Preferences Following Experimental TBI in Rats

• Alexander Stanton, MD: Recurrent Neuralgic Amyotrophy: Suspicion for a Hereditary Etiology

Learn more about the UPMC Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.