Thursday, June 2, at 9 am, the NMPT and BREATHE Training Programs will host a NeuroNines session featuring postdoctoral fellows Joseph Welch (mentors: Gordon Mitchell & Emily Fox) and Cara Donohue (mentor: Emily Plowman). Join us live in the Communicore Building (C1-007) or via Zoom: https://bit.ly/3wpIuM9.

BREATHE member, Dr. Emily Fox, and Dr. Kelly Hawkins have found that applying a non-invasive form of electrical stimulation to the lower spine during intensive walking rehabilitation was safe and feasible for people with chronic incomplete spinal cord injury, even those with considerable walking impairment. Results of the eight-participant clinical…

Thursday, May 12, at 9 am, the NMPT and BREATHE Training Programs will host a NeuroNines session featuring PhD students Tinuade Olarewaju (mentor: Emily Fox) and Alessandra Norris (mentor: Daniel Kopinke). Join us live in the Communicore Building (C1-007).

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…

Thursday, July 29, at 9 am, the NMPT and BREATHE Training Programs will host a NeuroNines session featuring Dr. Alicia Vose (mentors: Emily Fox & Gordon Mitchell) and doctoral candidate Michela Mir (mentor: Karen Wheeler-Hegland). Register via Zoom.

The Academy of Neurologic Physical Therapy featured Drs. Emily Fox and Kate Cavka in their Discussions in Spinal Cord Injury Science (DiSCIS) Podcast. This episode centered on a conversation about respiratory rehabilitation and diaphragm pacing after spinal cord injury and their recent paper in…

Thursday, May 13, at 9 am the NMPT and BREATHE Training Programs will host Neuromuscular Plasticity Nines featuring Rehabilitation Science PhD student Ethan Benevides (mentor: David Fuller) and Dr. Joseph Welch (mentors: Gordon Mitchell & Emily Fox). Register via Zoom.

Dr. Emily Fox, BREATHE Steering Committee member and Director of Neuromuscular Research at Brooks Rehabilitation, presented “Strategies to Augment Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation: Promoting Breathing and Walking Recovery” on Tuesday, April 27 at 7 pm EST. This presentation was part of the Brooks/UF-PHHP Collaboration Research Connection Series.

Emily Fox, PT, DPT, PhD, NCS, research assistant professor in the UF Dept. of Physical Therapy and Brooks Rehabilitation research scientist, and Josh Yarrow, PhD, CSCS, research health scientist at the Malcolm Randall VA Medical Center...

Former T32 trainee and current rehabilitation science postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Alicia Vose, was awarded the prestigious Sumiko Okada International Fellowship from the Dysphagia Research Society for her work “The Role of Anticipatory Postural Adjustments in Swallowing Airway Protection Accuracy.” This research grant honors Sumiko Okada,…