Shawn Applegarth, MSME

• Mechanical Properties of Hip Protectors
• Sensor Array Technologies
• Mechanical Design and Fabrication
• Technologies for Safe Patient Handling and Movement
• Fuel Cell Technologies

Andrea Baptiste, MA, CIE

• Patient Care Ergonomics
• Challenges and Technology Solutions for Bariatric Care
• Technologies for Safe Patient Handling and Movement
• Technologies for Bed Safety

Elizabeth Bass, PhD

• Econometric modeling and analyses
• Health care utilization and resource allocation
• Economics of aging
• Economics of injury
• Immigration economics

Tatjana Bulat, MD, CMD

• Outpatient Fall Risk Assessment
• Issues surrounding hip protector use
• Medication management to reduce fall risk
• Osteoporosis in men
• Falls and mobility disorders in the elderly

Robert Campbell, JD, MPH, PhD

• Governmental affairs with an emphasis on medical malpractice and patient safety policy
• Patient safety quality monitoring systems development and benchmarking for providers
• Provider report cards, pay for performance, and other quality initiatives
• JCAHO Patient Safety accreditation initiatives (Hospital, Nursing Home, and Home Health.)

Dustin French, PhD

• Economics of aging
• Economics of injury
• Econometric modeling and analyses
• Health care utilization and injury prevention
• Drug Safety
• Pharmacoepidemiology
• IT and platforming large scale datasets

Yvonne Friedman, MA, OTR/L

Deborah Gavin-Dreshnack, PhD

• Wheeled mobility for geriatric population
• Adaptive wheelchair seating
• Posture and positioning
• Safe patient handling and movement
• Wheelchair falls
• Wheelchair Wandering

Jeff Harrow, MD, PhD, FACP

• Pressure Ulcers
• Spinal Cord Injury Medicine
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Experience during Army mobilization

Stephanie Hart-Hughes, PT, NCS

• Fall risk assessment
• Analysis of gait and balance dysfunctions with emphasis on the elderly and patients with neurological disorders
• Fall and fall-related injury prevention technologies
• Rehabilitation of balance, gait and vestibular dysfunctions
• Functional outcome measures

John Lloyd, Ph.D., M.Erg.S., CPE

• Patient Care Ergonomics
• Occupational / Industrial / Workplace Ergonomics
• Biomechanics / Biodynamics of Injury
• Cumulative Trauma Disorders / Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders
• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
• Technologies for Safe Patient Handling and Movement

Mary Matz, MSPH

• Patient Care Ergonomics
• Bariatric Safe Patient Handling and Movement
• Slips, Trips, and Falls in Healthcare
• Occupational Safety and Health in Healthcare Environments
• Fostering a Culture of Safety in Healthcare Environments
• Use of After Action Review and other Knowledge Transfer Mechanisms to reduce risk of injury in Healthcare Environments

Audrey Nelson, PhD, RN, FAAN

• Patient Safety
• Safe Patient Handling & Movement

Gail Powell-Cope, PhD, ARNP, FAAN

• A Systems Approach for Preventing Life-threatening Hospital Bed Entrapment
• Evidence-Based Practice for Nursing
• Building a Research Program in a Magnet Hospital
• Qualitative Health Research
• Conducting Focus Groups for Needs Assessment and Program Evaluation
• Conducting Surveys for Program Evaluation
• Promoting a Culture of Safety
• Measuring Success in Achieving a Culture of Safety
• Assessing Barriers and Facilitators for Implementing Evidence-Based Practice
• Using Formative Evaluation to Improve Implementation of Evidence-based Practice

Etienne Pracht, Ph.D.

• Econometric / statistical analysis
• Medicaid policy
• State Trauma Systems

Patricia Quigley, PhD, MPH, ARNP, CRRN, FAAN

• Adult Rehabilitation
• Reduction of Falls and Fall-Related Injuries
• Program Development and Evaluation
• Functional Evaluation in Rehabilitation
• Nurse Sensitive Indicators
• Nursing Satisfaction
• Magnet Credentialing Program
• Nursing Research Programs

Brian Schulz, Ph.D.

• Whole-body biomechanics
• Computational biomechanical modeling
• Compensatory mechanisms of fall prevention

Kris Siddharthan, Ph.D.

• Economic analysis and ergonomics
• Financial analysis of healthcare systems
• Treatment and costs of blast injuries from combat
• Telemedicine and telehealth models