Category: News

Academic Staff Scholarship

Ellen Sutter, a doctoral candidate a part of our lab staff, has received the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine (AACPDM) 76th Annual Meeting Student Scholarship. This peer-reviewed competitive award supports her attendance to co-present a talk at the Fall 2022 AACPDM Annual Conference.   Congratulations Ellen!

Undergraduate Student Award

Alina Grimaldo has been awarded the Waisman Center Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center Undergraduate Student Award! This award is supported by the ‘Friends of Waisman’ in recognition of exceptional undergraduates working in research at Waisman.   Congratulations Alina!

Academic Staff Grant

Our Research Program Coordinator, Veronika Mak, received the UW–Madison Spring 2022 Academic Staff Professional Development Grant. This grant supports her attendance at the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine 76th Annual Meeting this fall. Congratulations!

Dr. Gillick’s New Roles

We are excited to announce that our lab’s director, Dr. Bernadette Gillick, has assumed a new leadership role at the UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research as Director of Research Design. In this role, she will apply her research and clinical experience in relation to clinical trials, informatics, and study design. Also, Dr. Gillick …

Baby Brain Recovery Study is Looking for Participants

Call us to learn more and find out if your baby is eligible to join! 608-381-2699 We invite you and your child to take part in a research study about how the brain changes in babies after a stroke or early brain injury. We are inviting you and your child if your child is younger …

Undergraduate Research Symposium

Congratulations to our undergraduate student research scholar, Alina Grimaldo, for her engaging presentation today at the UW–Madison Undergraduate Research Symposium titled ‘Understanding Recovery and Development in Children with Early Brain Injury and Cerebral Palsy’. This work is supported by an NIH R01 award.  Alina is mentored by Dr. Bernadette Gillick and Ellen Sutter. We are …

Summer Research Program Awards

Congratulations to our lab members for Summer Research Program Awards! Undergraduate Student Research Scholar Alina Grimaldo has been selected for the UW–Madison Summer 2022 LASER Scholars Program!  The LASER Scholar Program is a College of Letters & Science sponsored 8-week residential summer research experience program. The support of this program allows Alina to continue her work …

Study Protocol Publication Featured in Top 10 by Cerebral Palsy Foundation

Our recent Study Protocol publication was featured in the April 2022 Cerebral Palsy Foundation Newsletter as one of the “Top 10 Latest Publications on Early Detection and Intervention for Cerebral Palsy”. The full title of the article is: Study Protocol: Multimodal Longitudinal Assessment of Infant Brain Organization and Recovery in Perinatal Brain Injury, authored by …

Dr. Gillick Wisconsin Idea Seminar Awardee

Dr. Bernadette Gillick has been selected as a Wisconsin Idea Seminar Awardee for 2022 to further learn about the state we serve! Dr. Gillick will engage in a Bay Tour in May 2022 to further learn how the Wisconsin Idea is expressed through different contexts across the state. She will meet native communities, environmental stewards, …

New Lab Member

We welcome Veronika Mak as a Research Program Coordinator to our Pediatric Neuromodulation Laboratory. Veronika has a local and international academic and research background with experience in the field of cognitive neuroscience. She will be directly involved in our studies, research planning, and lab management.