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Loretta Ching’andu joined a panel discussion on “Financing Female-led Innovation and Entrepreneurship," hosted by the Justina Mutale Foundation for the 68th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.

All 22 students in the first graduating class of the Katz School’s M.A. in Physician Assistant Studies passed the profession’s national board certification exam on the first attempt and did better than the national average in key content areas.

Published in Frontiers in Medicine, the paper evaluates the impact of diet, medication and methods of dialysis treatment on patient outcomes, with a specific emphasis on blood pressure control, weight gain between dialysis sessions and symptoms during dialysis.

Dr. Sai Praveen Kadiyala and colleagues are taking surface electromyography (sEMG) signals from the activity of arm muscles to build a framework for improved stroke rehabilitation.

Dr. Honggang Wang, chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, received a $600,000 grant to create an artificial intelligence platform that would recognize patterns in longitudinal dietary data.

Niranjan Kumar Kishore, left, and Tharun Prabhakar  won in the category of “College Student, Data Scientists or Comp Sci,” with Prabhakar completing his generative AI application just two minutes behind Kishore in the contest. Both were awarded $1,000.

Dr. Waldman-Levi and Dr. Anita Bundy will use their PC-SCP guide in two upcoming AOTA workshops on “Assessing the Co-Occupation of Joint Play.” Both will focus on how clinicians can assess the shared involvement and engagement of parents and children in joint play.

Dr. Amiya Waldman-Levi, director of scholarship and research in the Katz School’s Occupational Therapy Doctorate, found that fathers play like their child’s play partner, sometimes acting silly or mischievous to make play more fun.

Judy Chalouh-Benjamin's educational fall-prevention education series, which covered everything from hazard identification to falling safely, was one of seven student presentations during a Capstone Dissemination Day in August.

In their paper, Dr. Marian Gidea and Ph.D. student Samuel Akingbade discuss how Topological Data Analysis identifies patterns and features in data not apparent through traditional statistical methods.