PM&R Headlines

• PM&R's Yvonne Akins named Susan D. Marchase Outstanding Woman UAB Administrator

  From mentoring women with whom she works, to sending encouraging notes to a male colleague’s wife while he was deployed, Akins consistently inspires the women within her unit and outside it.

• Revolutionary rehab technique shows promise in multiple sclerosis

  Originally developed as a rehabilitation technique for stroke, PM&R researcher, Dr. Victor Mark, finds "game-changing" results for patients with MS

• PM&R part of virtual reality research team

  Pain psychologists believe neuropathic pain develops due to a dissonance between information entering and leaving the body. In theory, virtual reality therapy could be used to treat neuropathic pain by reversing cortical changes caused by that dissonance.

• A Model of Progress: Long-funded model system advances knowledge of and care for spinal cord injuries

  UAB’s SCI Model System is one of only 14 officially recognized systems in the country and the longest continually funded SCI model system in existence. UAB is also home to the National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center. See the impact these programas have on the lives of people with SCI.

• PM&R receives funding for two longstanding centers

  Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation receives Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation has received $5.6 million to continue two of its longstanding spinal cord injury grants.

• Rehabilitation psychologists provide pathways to quality of life

  Spain Rehab's team of rehab psychologists provides services to people experiencing a wide range of medical trauma, including fractures, burn, crush, amputations, spinal cord injury and mild to severe brain injury.

• UAB employees rally around PM&R's Yvonne Akins as she fights breast cancer

  She has been a mentor, a confidant and an encouragement to others and is a dear friend to many. Now, for all of the times she has helped others in their times of need, Yvonne Akins is the one receiving support from a network of people she has impacted through four decades.

• Kristen Dubose honored as UAB Employee of the Month

  Kristen Dubose ‘embodies all that is genuinely good about working at UAB.’ For her dedication, hard work and contributions to the university, Kristen is recognized as UAB's outstanding employee.

• Spain Rehab opens the third clinic in the world for patients with transverse myelitis

  There were only two multidisciplinary, comprehensive clinics in the world for transverse myelitis until UAB Spain Rehabilitation Center opened the third.

• Dr. Danielle Powell receives MHRC Excellence in Mentoring Award

  The UAB Minority Health & Health Disparities Research Center (MHRC) Training Program relies on dedicated mentors like Dr. Powell who go above and beyond to help guide young investigators.