Week 6, Day 4
This week you’ll be writing your third newsletter(!), continuing to work from your presented drafts or starting new projects, and hearing from one of our earliest advocates, Dr. Ron Savage!
There are two tasks to do today:
Optional - prepare for the Concussion Journal Club at 4 pm PST today. The topic is the Examination of Reaction Time Deficits Following Concussion: A Systematic Review and Meta‑analysis. Three of the four study authors will lead the discussion — those who engage in the discussion are typically other professionals. We will put the Zoom link in Slack when we receive it Wednesday night.
If you haven’t yet, write a thank-you to Dr. Savage in this document.
Begin going through the readings from next week’s Tuesday Speaker, Dr. Monique Pappadis. We’re going to have two guest speakers next week, so you’ll want to get a head start on these early. The second guest speaker will be Yelena Goldin, PhD.Below are the papers that Dr. Pappadis sent for you to read.
Monique Pappadis, MEd, PhD
Assistant Professor, Division of Rehabilitation Sciences
Monique R. Pappadis is an Assistant Professor of the Division of Rehabilitation Sciences, School of Health Professions at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) and an Investigator at the Brain Injury Research Center of TIRR Memorial Hermann. She is also a Research Career and Development Core Scholar of UTMB's Claude D. Pepper Center and a Scholar of the Translational Research Scholars Program through the Institute for Translational Sciences. She has a diverse background in biological sciences, psychology, health education and social work, with specific training in measurement development, health education and promotion, psychoeducational interventions, and mixed methodologies. In addition, her bilingual skills in Spanish has allowed her to conduct field research assessing the needs of individuals with limited English proficiency and working with persons from diverse backgrounds. Her research includes the role of neurocognition on outcomes after brain injury, minority aging, health disparities, and addressing gender, language, and cultural differences related to outcomes after injury. Since 2004, she has been conducting patient-centered outcomes research in the area of stroke and traumatic brain injury research. She has expertise in stakeholder engagement, patient-centered outcomes research, conducting qualitative interviews, analyzing data, and integrating quantitative methodologies, and developing educational interventions and resources to address the needs of patients with brain injury and their caregivers. Dr. Pappadis has won several research awards, made several national and international presentations, published more than 30 peer-reviewed publications, and disseminated several educational materials for persons with brain injury and their caregivers. ~ From Pink Concussions.
This week:
Continue working on your projects
Reminders for those working in Squarespace
Always make sure that you are not making changes to a live page.
Squarespace has no version control. If you make changes to a page and then save that change, you cannot get the original version back. This applies to editing from two computers as well; Squarespace also does not support two active editors, so make sure that only one person is editing a page at a time. Squarespace has even had trouble when someone else has the page selected but is not editing, it can be really finicky.