White Coat Ceremony & Research Symposium 2024

The DPT Class of 2025 presented their research projects to the URI DPT students, faculty, and their family/friends on May 30, 2024 at Avedisian Hall.

Please see below for the list of presentations:

  • Measuring Sense of Belonging Among College Students
    Elyse Angle, SPT, Alyssa Carrier, SPT, Taylor Chofay, SPT
  • FloURIshing into Health and Wellbeing: Developing a Living Learning Community Pilot
    Jared Allen, SPT, Amanda Obiedzinski, SPT, Timi Wallace, SPT
  • H-Reflex Response to Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization in Post-Stroke
    Individuals
    Taylor Hyde, SPT, Natasha Justa, SPT
  • Augmented Reality Walking Intervention to Improve Function in Older Adults with Mild
    Cognitive Impairment
    Nathaniel Baldwin, SPT, Mary Pacini, SPT, Kaitlyn Parry, SPT, Deidre Seabury, SPT
  • Comparison of Reach-to-Grasp Kinematics Between the Dominant and Non-Dominant
    Hand in Virtual Reality
    Andrew Cooley, SPT, Nick Dionizio, SPT, Amanda Wheelock, SPT
  • Impact of Community Exercise Program on Quality of Life and Physical Performance in
    People with Parkinson’s Disease
    Brianna Patton, SPT, Rebecca Shorr, SPT, Lindsey Swider, SPT
  • A Bilingual English-Spanish Exercise Video for Older Adults with Dementia: Expanding
    Access to EM-STAR Through Language and Technology
    Kelly Bretagne, SPT, Hailie Garcia, SPT, Kelsey Jarvis, SPT, Jesse Kiendl, SPT
  • Functional Mobility in Older Adults with and without Total Knee Arthroplasty
    Nicole Berkio, SPT, Kacie Horstman, SPT, Ryan O’Donnell, SPT, Brooke Young, SPT
  • Outcomes of a Community-based TJQMBBTM Class for Older Adults
    Gabriella Celico, SPT, David Dixon, SPT, Sorrell Hooper, SPT, Tiffany Yam, SPT
  • The Effects of Circumferential Pressure on Hamstring Reaction Time, Torque Production,
    and Pain in Injured Muscle
    Allison Jasper, SPT, Brianna Bennett, SPT, Benjamin Lanowy, SPT, Audrey Johnston,
    SPT