University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: 2024

NFRAC Meeting 2024

We held our first ever in-person Neonatal Family Research Advisory Council(NFRAC) meeting held on Monday , November 18th at the Waisman Center. We had a great meeting with three family participants, several of our medical team members, and even three undergraduate students who had the opportunity to observe and participate. To start the night Dr. …

European Academy of Childhood-onset Disability 2024 Conference

Two of our lab members, Veronika Mak and Kellie Collins, traveled to Bruges, Brussels for the 2024 European Academy of Childhood-onset Disability Conference. Congratulations on your presentations! Presentation: Mak, V., Collins, K. Orchestrating Change: Integrating Diversity into Pediatric Research Recruitment at the 36th Meeting of the European Academy of Childhood Disability. June 2024. Bruges, Belgium  Poster: …

Congratulations, Dr. Ellen Sutter!

Ellen Sutter, DPT, PhD successfully defended her thesis this past May! She is now headed to Boston University to work in the Infant Communication Lab as a post doctoral research associate. Congratulations, Ellen!

2024 Friends of the Waisman Center IDDRC Undergraduate Student Award

Paige DeGrave, an incoming fourth year undergraduate student in our lab, was recently awarded the 2024 Friends of the Waisman Center IDDRC Undergraduate Student Award. Congratulations Paige!

PhD Student Spotlight – Kellie Collins

Congratulations Kellie Collins on all your recent awards! Student Travel Scholarship from the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine (AACPDM) | 2024 University of Wisconsin-Madison ICTR TL1 Predoctoral Training Program | 2024 – 2026 University of Wisconsin-Madison Morse Society Scholar: graduate student fellowship for training and research in Childhood Mental Health and Developmental …

Undergraduate Summer 2024

Our undergraduates are working hard this summer! Congratulations to all for your endeavors. Alina Grimaldo will be participating in the National Institutes of Health(NIH) Clinical Center Summer Internship Program: This summer, Alina will be working at the NIH Clinical Center through the Rehabilitation Medicine Department, specifically in Dr. Diane Damiano’s lab. The main focus of …

Researcher Feature in APTA Magazine

The February edition of the American Physical Therapy Association Magazine features a Researcher Spotlight about Dr. Gillick’s work and the Pediatric Neuromodulation Lab. Bernadette Gillick, PT, MSPT, PhD, explores a novel approach to understanding infant brain injury

2024 ICTR Research Day

Congratulations to everyone who presented at the 2024 Institute for Clinical and Translational Research Day on January 19, 2024. We had three posters representing our lab’s work: A Semi-Automated Workflow for Segmenting Brain Lesions in Infants with Perinatal Brain Injuries​ Authors:​ Alina Grimaldo, Andrea De Abreu E Gouvea, Cameron Casey, Ellen Sutter, Veronika Mak, Preston …