In
addition to the PI, Co-PI, Lead Investigators,
and Project Co-PIs, we have appointed a Scientific
Advisory Panel (SAP). The role of the SAP is to
grow collaborations and provide expertise in design,
outcome measures, and analyses across the projects.
The SAP, including our valued consultants(Jette
and Lewthwaite),
makes an important contribution, by adding depth
and breadth to the scientific and organizational
aims of PTClinResNet. SAP members and consultants
are listed here with special areas of expertise
in parentheses: Bryan
Kemp,
Ph.D. (Subjective QOL assessment; Research center
design and training; also Lead Investigator for
STOMPS), George
Salem,
Ph.D. (Resistance exercise, muscle physiology,
periodicity; also advisor to STOMPS), Stan
Azen,
Ph.D. (Director, Statistical Consultation and
Research Center [SCRC], biostatistics, design,
study power for clinical trials research), Sara
Mulroy,
Ph.D., PT (clinical biomechanics; research experience
relevant to STOMPS project, clinical research
design; also Rancho site PI for STEPS), Mark
Rogers,
Ph.D., PT (balance and postural control in geriatric
and neurologic populations; Co-I for STEPS project),
Denise Globe,
Ph.D. (HRQL assessment), Rebecca
Lewthwaite,
Ph.D. (psychosocial aspects of exercise adherence,
motivation, evidence-based practice; Editor-in-Chief
of Infusions: Research into Practice), Allan
Jette,
Ph.D., PT (health services research and management,
health outcomes research), David
Morris,M.S.,
PT (heads the training center at UAB for the EXCITE
clinical trial; he has experience in the process
of multi-site standardization for intervention
trials), and Lilli
Thompson,
PT (previously Training Director of Rehabilitation
Research and Training Center for the Study of
Aging with Spinal Cord Injury, Rancho Los Amigos
National Rehabilitation Center). |
