Promotions and Awards
Dr. Franklin Caldera has been appointed as Vice Chair for Clinical Services in addition to his role as Chief Medical Officer. for the Penn Institute for Rehabilitation Medicine (PIRM). Dr. Caldera has also been named to Teladoc, Inc.’s 2017-2018 Best Doctors in America® List.
Other faculty members also named to Teladoc, Inc.’s 2017-2018 Best Doctors in America® List include: Dr. Timothy Dillingham, Dr. Kelly Heath, Dr. David Lenrow, Dr. Adrian Popescu, and Dr. John Vasudevan.
Dr. Kate Temme was recognized as a 2017 Orthopedic/Sports Medicine Top Doc by Main Line Today.
Recent Faculty Publications Since 2017
A. Chandra, L. Wang, T. Young, W.J. Tseng, M.A. Levine, K. Cengel, X.S. Liu, Y. Zhang, L. Qin. Proteasome inhibitor Bortezomib as a novel therapeutic agent for focal radiation-induced opteoporosis. FASEB J. 2017 Aug 31. pii: fj.201700375R. doi: 10.1096/fj.201700375R.
J.D. Chase,L. Huang, D. Russell, A. Hanlon, M. O’Connor, K. M. Robinson, K.H. Bowles. Racial/ethnic disparities in disability outcomes among post-acute home care patients. Journal of Aging and Health doi: 10.1177/0898264317717851. 2017 Jun 01.
J. Chase, L. Huang, D. Russell, A. Hanlon, M. O’Connor, K. Robinson, K. Bowles. Racial and ethnic disparities in ADL disability after hospitalization among older home care recipients. Innovations in Aging 2017;1:1054-1055.
R. M. Gallagher, P. Compton, A. Popescu. The pathophysiology of chronic pain and clinical interfaces with addiction. In: Richard K. Ries, editor in chief, America Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) Principles of Addiction Medicine, Sixth Edition, Wolters Kluwer, 2018.
Y. K. Lee, K. J. Yu, E. Song, A. Barati Farimani, F. Vitale, Z. Xie, Y. Yoon, Y. Kim, A. Richardson, H. Luan, Y. Wu, X. Xie, T. H. Lucas, K. Crawford, Y. Mei, X. Feng, Y. Huang, Brian Litt, N. R. Aluru, L. Yin, J. A. Rogers. Studies of the dissolution of monocrystalline silicon nanomembranes and of their use as encapsulation layers and electrical interfaces in water-soluble forms of electronics. ACS Nano, 11 (12) 12562-12572, 2017.
C. A. Lissandrello, W. F. Gillis, J. Shen, B. W. Pearre, F. Vitale, M. Pasquali, B. J. Holinski, D. J. Chew, A. E. Whitea, T. J. Gardner. A micro-scale printable nanoclip for electrical stimulation and recording in small nerves. Journal of Neural Engineering, 14 (3): 036006-12, 2017.
Z. Liu, X. Yuan, M. Liu, G. Fernandes, Y. Zhang, C.N. Ionita, S. Yang. Antimocrobial peptide combinded with BMP2 modified mesenchymal stem cells promotes calvarial repair in mouse calvarial osteolytic model. Molecular Therapy 2017 Sep14.pii: S1525-0016 (17) 30425-2. Doi: 10.1016/j.ymthe.2017.09.011.
Z.L. McCormick, A. Popescu, C.C. Smith. Spine intervention society’s patient safety committee. Fact finders for patient safety: routine intravenous access for epidural steroid injections without sedation. Pain Medicine 2017;18:1193-1194.
J.M. Tessier, E. Whipple, M.T. Schulteis, K.M .Robinson. Driving-related coping thoughts in post-9/11 combat veterans with and without comorbid PTSD and TBI. Federal Practitioner 2017;34:
20-24.
Z. Tian, X. Ma, M. Yasen, R.L. Mauck, L. Qin, F.S Shofer, L.J. Smith, M. Pacifici, M. Enomoto-Iwamoto, Y. Zhang. Intervertebral disc degeneration in a percutaneous mouse tail injury model. American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabiltation 2017 Aug 31. doi: 10/1097/PHM. 0000000000000818.
W. Tong, Z. Lu, L. Qin, R.L. Mauck, H.E. Smith, L.J. Smith, N.R. Malhotra, M.F. Heyworth, F. Caldera, M. Iwamoto, Y. Zhang. Cell therapy for the degenerating intervertebral disc. Translational Research. The Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine. 2017;181:49-58. PMID: 27986604; NIHMSID 884644.
H. Ung, S. Baldassano, H. Bink, A. M Krieger, S. Williams, F. Vitale, C. Wu, D. Freestone, E. Nurse, K. Leyde, K. A. Davis, M. Cook, B. Litt. Intracranial EEG stabilizes over months after implanting electrodes in human brain. Journal of Neural Engineering, 14 (5), 056011, 2017.
F. Vitale, D. G. Vercosa, S. S. Pamulapati, F. Seibt, J. S. Yan, C. Kemere, M. Beierlein, M. Pasquali, J. T. Robinson. Fluidic microactuation of flexible electrodes for neural recording. Nano Letters, 18 (1), 326-335, 2018.
F. Vitale, B. Litt. Bioelectronics: the promise of leveraging the body’s circuitry to treat disease. Bioelectronics in Medicine, 1 (1) 3-7, 2018.
Recent Faculty – Presentations Since 2017
J. Chase, L. Huang, D. Russell, A. Hanlon, M. O’Connor, K. Robinson, K. Bowles. Racial/ethnic disparities in ADL disability after hospitalization among older home care recipients. IAGG World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics, San Francisco, CA, July 2017.
Timothy R. Dillingham: What reference values nerve conduction techniques should I use in my practice?, American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine, Annual Assembly, Phoenix, AZ, September 2017.
Jillian M. Tessier, Elizabeth Whipple, Keith Robinson, Maria T. Shultheis: Sleep and executive functioning in post 9/11 combat veterans with and without post traumatic stress disorder. International Neuropsychological Society, Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., February 2018 (Poster).
Karen Hanson, Keith Robinson: Vision, hearing, and balance dysfunctions in community-based veterans who sustained a head injury during military service. 2017 National Capital Area TBI Research Symposium, Bethesda, MD, March 2017 (Poster).
Adrian Popescu: Sorting out common causes of lower back pain using history and physical exam. America College of Physicans Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, April 2017.
Adrian Popescu: Spine injections in immunosuppressed patients and the risks associated with procedural care: to inject or not to inject? Spine Intervention Society, San Francisco, CA July 2017.
Adrian Popescu: A case-based pro/con debate: epidural steroid injection versus minimally invasive microdiscectomy. North American Spine Society, Orlando, FL, October 2017.
Adrian Popescu: Fatal flaws in randomized controlled trials of spinal interventions and the effects of practice guidelines. North American Spine Society, Orlando, FL, October 2017.
Keith Robinson, Helene Moriarty, Laraine Winter, Deborah Fishman, Brian Newhart: Concurrent PTSD and TBI in veterans: relationship with functioning and psychological well being. Military Health System Research Symposium, Kissimmee, FL, August 2017.
Flavia Vitale. Fluidic microdrives for minimal invasive implantation of flexible neural microelectrodes. Minisymposium on Innovative Approaches for Multimodal Neural Interfaces, Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Nov. 2017 - Washington, D.C.
Flavia Vitale, W. Shen, N. Driscoll, A. G. Richardson, B. Murphy, A. Ananthakrishnan, J. Burrell, O. Adewole, T. H. Lucas, D. K. Cullen, M. G. Allen, B. Litt. Evaluation of impedance and in vivo recording performance of extracellular matrix-coated neural microelectrodes. Biomedical Engineering Society Meeting (BMES), Oct. 2017 – Phoenix, AZ.