Professional Notes: March 2021
03/31/2021
A round-up of awards, presentations, papers and the other professional achievements of SLU faculty, staff and students.
Faculty and Staff
Oluwatoyosi (Olu) Owoeye, Ph.D. (Physical Therapy and Athletic Training) was awarded the 2021 Applied Health Sciences Research Grant, a competitive internal research grant program at SLU. The $10,000 grant has been approved for the project “RICHLoad: Reducing Injuries among College Athletes through Load management.”
Collaborators on this multidisciplinary work are: Jemil Neme, M.D. (Family and Community Medicine); Paula Buchanan, Ph.D. (Center for Health Outcomes Research); Anthony Breitbach, Ph.D. (Physical Therapy and Athletic Training) and Flavio Esposito, Ph.D. (Computer Science). Partners: SLU and Harris-Stowe Athletics.
L. Cassandra Hamrick, Ph.D. (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) recently published two articles: “La Critique d’art de Baudelaire, vue par Gautier.” L’Année Baudelaire, Honoré Champion, vol. 24, 2020, p. 23-50, “Anarchie comme ordre dans l'oeuvre de Gautier: de Proudhon à Emerson.” Bulletin de la Société Théophile Gautier; published with the collaboration and support of the Université de Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3. No. 42, 2020, p. 69-82.
Nil Santiáñez, Ph.D. (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) recently published a new book: Spanish Fascist Writing. Edited by Justin Crumbaugh and Nil Santiáñez, University of Toronto Press, 2021.
Gretchen Arnold, Ph.D. (Women’s Studies) received an honorable mention for The Sociological Quarterly Article Award for her paper, “Neoliberalism’s Assault on Women’s Citizenship: The Case of Nuisance Laws and Intimate Partner Violence in the United State.”
Nori Katagiri, Ph.D. (Political Science) published two book chapters and two articles:
- A chapter titled “Cyber Countermeasures for Democracies at War” in a forthcoming book titled “The Conduct of War in the 21st Century.”
- A chapter titled “Japanese Concepts of Deterrence” in a book titled “NL ARMS Netherlands Annual Review of Military Studies 2020.”
- “Why International Law and Norms Do Little in Preventing Non-State Cyber Attacks” in the Journal of Cybersecurity.
- “From Cyber Denial to Cyber Punishment: What Keeps Japanese Warriors from Active Defense Operations?” in Asian Security.
Terri Rebmann, Ph.D., and other Saint Louis University researchers collaborated with a team of researchers from across the country to study COVID-19 spread in K-12 classrooms. SLU MPH students conducted the contact tracing and helped with data collection for the study. Rebmann and other other SLU researchers also recently published “Non-Pediatric Nurses’ Willingness to Provide Care to Pediatric Patients during a Disaster: An Assessment of Pediatric Surge Capacity in Four Midwestern Hospitals” that assesses non-pediatric nurses’ willingness to provide care to pediatric patients during a mass casualty event (MCE).
Kenton Johnston, Ph.D. (Health Management and Policy) co-authored a viewpoint article in the Journal of American Medicine (JAMA) Health Forum about the growing Medicare Advantage private insurance plan market. A team of researchers led by Johnston published a research letter investigating the “Association of Clinician Minority Patient Caseload With Performance in the 2019 Medicare Merit-based Incentive Payment System.”
Kim Levenhagen, DPT (Physical Therapy and Athletic Training) in collaboration with her co-authors, published “Rehabilitation interventions for the management of breast cancer-related lymphedema: developing a patient-centered, evidence-based plan of care throughout survivorship” in the Journal of Cancer Survivorship.
Kathleen Llewellyn, Ph.D. (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) delivered a presentation, “Textual Caricature: Comedy, Commentary, and Confession in Early Modern France, at the Round Table “Excess and Embodiment: The Physicality and Materiality of Frivolity in the Early Modern Period.” The Round Table was sponsored by the Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of North Carolina. January 29, 2021.
Chris Sebelski, DPT (Physical Therapy and Athletic Training) presented at several meetings, including:
- “Evidence-Informed Rehabilitation Following Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion” at the American Physical Therapy Association Combined Sections Meeting.
- “Embracing Consensus? Investigating the Impact within Literature for Rehabilitation of Patients with Rotator Cuff Repair” at the American Physical Therapy Association Combined Sections Meeting.
- “Blazing the Trail: Developing the Next Generation of Education Researchers” at the American Physical Therapy Association Combined Sections Meeting.
Ethel Frese, DPT, and Kim Levenhagen, DPT (Physical Therapy and Athletic Training) in collaboration with their co-authors, presented “Bringing Vitality to Vital Signs” at the American Physical Therapy Association Combined Sections Meeting.
Chris Sebelski, DPT, Elissa Bradford, DPT, Barb Yemm, DPT, and Ann Hayes, DPT (Physical Therapy and Athletic Training) in collaboration with their co-authors, presented “What Do You See? Arts-based Education to Facilitate Observation and Clinical Reasoning Skills” at the American Physical Therapy Association Combined Sections Meeting.
Tobias Winright, Ph.D. (Theological Studies and Health Care Ethics), gave an invited guest presentation March 29 on “Catholic Social Teaching, The Color of Law, and Racism” to wrap up an interdisciplinary panel hosted by the University of Dallas on Richard Rothstein’s book The Color of Law.
Kitty Newsham, Ph.D. (Physical Therapy and Athletic Training) was quoted in an article on Urban Running in the March issue Men's Fitness (UK).
Kenton Johnston, Ph.D. (Health Management and Policy) discusses a better value-based payment model on a recent 3M Health Information Systems podcast.
Fred Rottnek, M.D. (Family and Community Medicine), Tony Buchanan, Ph.D. (Psychology), and Alaina Baker-Nigh, Ph.D. (Biology) participated in the March Roundtable livestream event “Thinking Missouri: Neuroscience in the Show-Me State” hosted by the Missouri Local Science Engagement Network. The discussion is viewable on YouTube and Facebook via the MOST Policy Initiative.
Ethel Frese, DPT, (Physical Therapy and Athletic Training) was quoted in HuffPost about chest pain.
Brieanna Criscione, program coordinator for Fraternity & Sorority Life, presented at the virtual Meeting of the Minds 2021 Conference on March 12 during their Fraternity & Sorority Life Leadership Day. She facilitated the session “ASTP: Risk Reduction Programming for Fraternity & Sorority Life.”
Students
Derek Estes, joint Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy & Health Care Ethics, was awarded the 2021-2022 Abraham J. Malherbe Fellowship through the Christian Scholarship Foundation (CSF). CSF is a foundation that financially supports scholars whose work benefits both the academy and the church. The Abraham J. Malherbe Fellowship is given each year to the graduate student whose research exemplifies excellence in Christian scholarship. The money awarded through CSF can go to pay for research expenses, travel to conferences, or childcare costs for graduate students with children.
Three American Studies Ph.D. students presented papers at the annual Missouri Conference on History, held virtually in mid-March 2021. The presenters and papers were:
- Kendyl Schmidt - “‘All Can Be Seen without Difficulty’: How Antebellum St. Louis Used Murder and Execution to Reassert Racial Hierarchies”
- Elizabeth Eikmann - “Un-Fair Images: The Gerhard Sisters Portrait Photography at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis”
- Mary Maxfield - “‘The Building Is Jumping’: Lesbian Organizing in 1970s St. Louis”
Elizabeth Eikmann, Ph.D. candidate in American Studies, won the Student Paper Prize at the 2021 Missouri Conference on History. The prize honors Eikmann’s conference paper on the photography of the Gerhard sisters, documenting and interpreting participants in the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, as well as that photographic work's relationship to contemporary constructions of gender and US imperialism.