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Otana Jakpor is a first-year medical student in the New Pathway program. She was born and raised in Riverside, California, where seeing the effects of air pollution in her community sparked a passion for environmental health research and advocacy. Though environmental health is still her focus...

We would love to have you get involved in our research! Currently, we have several ongoing studies. Most of these studies compensate participation at $10/hour and are conducted at the Boston VA located at 150 S. Huntington Ave., Boston, MA, 02130. If you are interested in functional MRI or...

Identify Risk Chart review Assessment of risk factors: cognitive impairment, advanced age, severe illness, sensory deficits, infection, polypharmacy, sleep deprivation, dehydration Screen Clock-in-the Box Assessment Modified Richmond Agitation and Sedation Scale (mRASS) Days of the Week Backward...

Currently there are two other clinical demonstration projects from the VA Boston Healthcare System Geriatrics in Primary Care Clinical Demonstration Project- Dr. Peter Engel - Coinciding with the initiation of Patient Aligned Care Teams (PACT), the Geriatrics in Primary Care program seeks to...

MedicalHarvard Medical School http://www.hms.harvard.edu HMS Office of Recruitment and Multicultural Affairs (ORMA) http://hms.harvard.edu/content/multicultural-affairs-0 The LGBT Office was established to enhance diversity inclusion while fostering an open, affirming, and welcoming community for...

STEP Home is a group workshop program started by the TRACTS team and created to help returning veterans reintegrate back into their civilian lives after deployment.Veterans are offered assistance with vocational issues, problem solving, family relationships, substance issues, and related...

How to Administer the Clock-in-the-Box The Clock-in-the-Box diagnostic has two parts to it. First there is a page of brief instructions that the test taker is asked to commit to memory. Then, when they are ready, they are given a response sheet, depicted below, on which they try to follow the...

Our study on the effects of alcohol on grey matter thickness has revealed two key findings. First, the outermost layer of cortex across the entire brain was reduced in a sample of community dwelling recovered alcoholics. Second, alcohol’s effect on the brain is continuous across a wide range of...

Assessing Long-Term Effects of Repetitive Trauma This state of the art research study is designed to better understand the long-term consequences of brain injuries from blast explosions or other causes, such as a fall or motor vehicle accident. An important question that we want to answer is whether...