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Congratulations to Dr. Patricia C Heyn for being awarded the Outstanding Mentor Award from the ACRM Career Development Networking group at the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine annual conference in Chicago, Illinois from November 8 – 11. . This prestigious recognition highlights Dr. Heyn’s unwavering dedication to mentoring and fostering opportunities for early career professionals, setting a high standard of leadership and support in the field. We are also proud to recognize Dr. Eric Bubar, who presented his outstanding work on “using open source machine learning, Artificial intelligence, and computer vision for at-home rehabilitation programs” showcasing excellence and innovation.
Center Director, Dr. Patricia Heyn, and MCOA fellow, Dr. Uma Kelekar, presented their work titled: “Examining the Impacts of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Mitigation Policies on Health Outcomes of Older Adults: Lessons Learned From Six High-Income or Middle-Income Countries” at the 2022 GSA Annual Scientific meeting in Indianapolis. This article highlighted the role of public policies across six countries and their impacts on the health outcomes of older adults during the pandemic. This editor’s pick was published recently in the Public Policy and Aging Reports October edition with the title “Examining the Impacts of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Mitigation Policies on Health Outcomes of Older Adults: Lessons Learned From Six High-Income or Middle-Income Countries”.
The MCOA team also presented a poster on their ongoing work assessing the feasibility of fall prevention programs implementation based on an academic-community partnership at the conference. Since 2016, the MCOA team has been involved in a federally-funded project to implement fall prevention programs in the Northern Virginia region. This project has trained approximately 5,000 older adults and is currently in the stage of assessing the program’s reach, and outcomes and planning its next phase of implementation.
