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Doctoral research on physical activity in Asian American communities earns APHA recognition

The American Public Health Association has named Temple researcher Aisha Bhimla winner of the Best Student Poster Presentation award (in the Physical Activity section) at October’s APHA Annual Meeting. Bhimla, who earned her PhD in kinesiology at the College of Public Health earlier this year, is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Asian Health in Temple’s Lewis Katz School of Medicine. At the APHA conference, held virtually this year, she presented her research about how the physical activity of Asian Americans in urban environments is affected by the way they percei...

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Alumna Patten recognized with AOTA's highest honor

Kristie Patten, a two-time Temple alumna who earned her master’s degree in occupational therapy and a PhD in educational psychology from Temple, has been recognized with the highest academic honor in her profession. The American Occupational Therapy Association has named Patten recipient of the 2021 Eleanor Clarke Slagle Lectureship Award, which honors an individual who has “creatively contributed to the development of the body of knowledge of the profession through research, education, and/or clinical practice.” Patten is currently vice dean for academic affairs at New...

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Occupational therapy

Epidemiology and Biostatistics students, faculty recognized at awards ceremony

Students and faculty in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics were recognized for their work over the academic year at the department’s annual Awards and Recognition Event, held at the end of the spring 2020 semester. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, this year’s event was held virtually. The following students were recognized for their achievement: Sulaiman Alquwayfili, Phillip Cerroni, Kaelah Tristani, and Morgan Zalot received the Academic Excellence Award, which recognizes graduating students in the department for academic achievement and is given to stud...

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Pfeiffer receives AOTA research excellence award

Beth Pfeiffer, associate professor of health and rehabilitation sciences, has been named a winner of the American Occupational Therapy Foundation Mid-Career Research Excellence Award. The award, given annually to a researcher who is six to 15 years post completion of a doctoral degree, recognizes those whose body of work has made a difference in the field of occupational therapy (OT) and for people receiving OT interventions. Pfeiffer's work includes real-world vocational skills development across the lifespan in people with autism spectrum and mental health disorders; she als...

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Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Dolloff honored with 'My City, My Place, Brighter Futures' award

Ann Dolloff, instructor in the Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences in the College of Public Health, has been named a 2020 recipient of the “My City, My Place, Brighter Futures” awards, given annually by the Philadelphia Division of Intellectual disAbility Services (IDS). The awards honor the work of “those who have committed their lives to supporting people with an intellectual disability,” according to the awards committee, who referred to Dolloff as “a model of excellence, compassion, commitment, growth and achievement.” Philadelphia IDS is a unit of...

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Collins named fellow of Society of Behavioral Medicine

Bradley Collins, director of the Health Behavior Research Clinic and director of graduate programs in social and behavioral sciences, has been named a fellow of the Society of Behavioral Medicine. “This honor recognizes what we in the college already know about our esteemed colleague, Dr. Collins—that he is a highly accomplished researcher, recognized nationally and internationally for his work on tobacco control in low-income and predominantly minority families,” said Stephen Lepore, chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Collins is trained as a ps...

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Social and Behavioral Sciences

Bass, Alhajji receive top honors from Society of Behavioral Health

Research projects on HIV prevention in Philadelphia and hereditary disease in Saudi Arabia have won top honors for two researchers in the College of Public Health’s Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. The Society of Behavioral Medicine will award annual prizes for best research abstracts in the nation to Sarah Bass, associate professor and director of the Risk Communication Laboratory, and Mohammed Alhajji, a PhD candidate and research assistant in the Lab. Alhajji, who won in the student research category, proposed a promising intervention to prevent the sprea...

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Schuler named to PHMC Visiting Scholars Program

Public Health Management Corporation’s Research and Evaluation Group has invited Brittany R. Schuler, assistant professor in the School of Social Work, to its inaugural Visiting Scholars Program for the 2019-2020 academic year. In collaboration with PHMC researchers and practitioners, the visiting scholars will pursue and strengthen their research, build a knowledge base in a specific area of public health and further support their academic goals. Schuler’s research aims to understand and improve daily household routines in an effort to improve well-being and protect chi...

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Bedore named Fellow of American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

Lisa Bedore, professor and chair of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, has been named a Fellow by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). She will be recognized at ASHA’s 2019 Annual Convention in Orlando, Florida, in November. Among the highest honors in the organization, the status of Fellow recognizes achievement in the field of speech-language-hearing and is given to those whose contributions “are significant and would be so regarded within and beyond one’s community or state.” The status is retained for life and bestowed upon...

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