2024 Collaborative Research Support Program Awardees
Posted on July 9, 2024 by CAHP
Dr. Tara Andrews, assistant professor of physical therapy, Dr. Nicholas Stanley, assistant professor of audiology, and Dr. Kevin Strehler, assistant professor of physical therapy, have been selected as recipients of the 2024 Covey College of Allied Health Professions Collaborative Research Support Program awards.
The Collaborative Research Support Program provides seed funding to advance the research and scholarship goals of the college and its faculty. The objective of this program is to foster mentored or independent collaborative, interdisciplinary, interprofessional, discipline-specific or pedagogical research across all units in the college.
The program is administered through the college’s Research and Scholarly Task Force through a competitive review process, with final approval by the dean of the Covey College of Allied Health Professions. Awardees are expected to publish and/or seek external funding opportunities based on the results of their internal grant, as appropriate for their discipline.
Each principal investigator received up to $5,000 of funding to support their project.
Principal Investigator
Dr. Tara Andrews
Assistant Professor
Department of Physical Therapy
Collaborators
Dr. Sarah Redding
Assistant Professor
Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology
Dr. Ashley Flagge
Assistant Professor
Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology
Project Title
Characteristics, Assessment, and Treatment of BPPV in Patients with Chronic TBI in
an Interprofessional Event Setting
Principal Investigator
Dr. Nicholas Stanley
Assistant Professor
Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology
Collaborators
Dr. Tara Davis
Associate Professor
Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology
Dr. Kimberly Smith
Chair and Associate Professor
Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology
Project Title
Influence of Hearing Loss on Self-Reported Hearing Ability, Listening Fatigue, and
Quality of Life in Persons with Aphasia
Principal Investigator
Dr. Kevin Strehler
Assistant Professor
Department of Physical Therapy
Collaborators
Dr. Matthew Hassell
Assistant Professor
Department of Occupational Therapy
Dr. Richard Cahanin
Assistant Professor
Department of Physical Therapy
Project Title
Validity of self-completed functional strength assessment in virtual rehabilitation practice