BREATHE Steering Committee members, Drs. Elisa Gonzalez-Rothi and Alicia Vose, were recently awarded an R21 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Their project: Mechanisms of swallowing dysfunction in a translational rodent model of chronic cervical spinal cord injury, will investigate how swallowing…
BREATHE Steering Committee member, Dr. Elisa Gonzalez-Rothi, was recently awarded an R01 from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Her project: Combinatorial respiratory rehabilitation approaches to enhance breathing recovery after cervical spinal cord injury, will investigate combining therapeutic acute intermittent hypoxia (tAIH) with task-specific respiratory…
BREATHE Steering Committee member, Dr. Elisa Gonzalez-Rothi, has been promoted to Associate Professor by the UF College of Public Health and Health Professions. Congratulations, Dr. Gonzalez-Rothi!…
The Control of Breathing and Airway Defense (CoBAD) International Online Seminar Series featured Erica Dale, PhD & Elisa Gonzalez-Rothi, DPT, PhD on Friday, June 17th at 3:00 pm ET. Dr. Dale’s research focuses on neurostimulation and functional recovery of breathing capacity after spinal injury. Dr. Gonzalez-Rothi’s research focuses…
Gordon Mitchell, Ph.D., served as an editor for a special issue of the journal Experimental Neurology. The issue is focused on intermittent hypoxia, a potential treatment for spinal cord injury and multiple neurological disorders, and includes several articles authored or co-authored by UF faculty members and trainees from…
Congratulations to BREATHE Steering Committee member and Assistant Professor in Physical Therapy, Dr. Elisa Gonzalez-Rothi, who received the American Physical Therapy Association’s 2021 Margaret L. Moore Award for Outstanding New Academic Faculty Member. This award is granted to recipients who…
