Celebrating Recent Achievements from the UPMC Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Suehun Ho, MD, was appointed to the Part I Associate Committee with the ABPMR. 

Amy Houtrow, MD, PhD, MPH, gave testimony for Senator Casey’s last committee meeting as chair of the Senate Committee on Aging on December 12.

Max Hurwitz, DO:

Was the 2024 AAPM&R PhyzTalks winner for his presentation, “Disability and Homelessness: How Street Medicine Tackles Health Injustice.”

Received a grant from The Beckwith Institute for his Street Medicine Consult Service.

Published the following new studies regarding disability and homelessness:

“Unmet Needs: Bringing Physical Rehabilitation to People Experiencing Homelessness”

“Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation for the Transition Out of Homelessness with a Traumatic Brain Injury”

“A Case of Delusional Parasitosis Associated with Xylazine Use”

Brendan McNeish, MD, is the Foundation for PM&R Richard Materson ERF New Investigator Grant awardee for his proposal titled, “Executive Function’s Association with Mobile Measures of Community Walking in Older Breast Cancer Survivors: A Pilot Study.”

UPMC Mercy:

The inpatient rehabilitation unit at UPMC Mercy earned a three-year accreditation from CARF International for its general inpatient rehabilitation program, as well as its specialty brain injury, spinal cord injury, and stroke programs.

Ryan Nussbaum, DO, was session director for an Overhead Athlete Ultrasound workshop at the AAPM&R Annual Assembly.

Christopher Standaert, MD, was appointed to a committee for the National Academies of Science and Medicine studying the relationship between pain and disability.

Christy Zigler, PhD:

Is Chair-Elect for the 'Child Health SIG (Special Interest Group)' as part of the ISOQOL (International Society for Quality of Life Research).

Was first author on the publication, “Evaluating Anchor Variables and Variation in Meaningful Score Differences for PROMIS® Pediatric Measures in Children and Adolescents Living with a Rheumatic Disease.”