Huriah Al Sultan, MS – PhD Candidate

Huriah Al Sultan, MS PhD Candidate in Health & Rehabilitation Sciences

Congratulations to Huriah Al Sultan, MS, who recently passed her doctoral examination on 12/8/23.  Huriah was required to write a 25 page NIH style grant proposal as her step 1, written examination.  She then had to defend her proposal and answer questions from her committee of faculty members as her step 2, oral examination.  Huriah was highly successful in both steps 1 and 2 and is now endorsed as a PhD candidate.  As a candidate for the PhD degree, Huriah will now begin her research and put together her doctoral dissertation.  Huriah is becoming an expert in the field of COVID-19 survivorship and holistic ways to assess children with residual disease and symptoms.  Onward!!

Thankful for our amazing student researchers in the LII!

LII 2024: Front row -S. Snyder, R. McIntyre, J. Patel. Back row- K. Evans, H. Al Sultan, P. Bradbury. Not pictured: I. Bloom, K. Smith, and K. Crane.

As the current year is ending and we look forward to 2024, it is time to reflect on all that our lab has accomplished.  Our graduate and undergraduate students have made tremendous personal and professional strides, while advancing our work.  We look forward to continued research in the ergonomics and COVID-19 space and our students are split up into teams to address these areas of inquiry.  We are also hopeful that we will have renewed funding to connect with colleagues in Sri Lanka and their ongoing surveillance of COVID-19 survivors.  We also hope to work more closely with Dr. Khalsa and Nationwide Children’s hospital on both pediatric risks for long COVID-19 and progression of cardiovascular disease.  We are excited about 2024!!!

Evans, Bradbury, and Bloom to present at the 109th RSNA meeting

Pete Bradbury preparing to present with Dr. Evans in the South Hall of McCormick Center, Chicago, Ill.

We were so excited to have our lab presenting our product evaluation findings at the 2023 RSNA meeting in Chicago, Illinois.  Evans, Bradbury, and Bloom were selected from 8000 abstracts to do a poster presentation at this global meeting.  The title of the talk was: Determining the utility of augmented reality (AR) coupled with diagnostic medical sonography.   The presentation was provided on Monday, 11/27 in the McCormick Center at 1PM EST.  We spent the entire day at the RSNA meeting networking and also meeting with our colleagues from MediView LLC.  This was Pete’s first time to attend the RSNA meeting and also a great global networking experience.

Welcome Jay Patel to the LII!!

Jayen Patel, OSU junior in Mechanical Engineering

We are so happy to have Jayen Patel formally join our lab team!!  Jay is a junior at the Ohio State University and is working towards a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering.  He is excited about a future in the field of ME, but he has also had professional experience working on the supply chain side.  Jay’s former employers and coworkers considered him to be team-oriented and a great communicator.  Jay is ready to join the lab and hopes that his background experience and studies can provide value and a unique perspective to our team.  We are hoping that Jay can assist with the clinical use cases that we collect, as part of the OBWC funded project on cardiac arm assistance.

Dr. Evans accepted in the University’s Academy of Emertus Professors

Kevin Evans, Academy Professor

On September 29th, the members of the Emeritus Academy Steering Committee, chose Dr. Evans to be inducted into Ohio State’s Emeritus Academy. Dr. Evans  joins over 200 prestigous members, who represent only 8% of the total number of Emeritus Professors at The Ohio State University.  Dr. Evans new title is Academy Professor and continues to push forward with many planned research projects and planned platform lectures.

Al Sultan wins SDMS Graduate Research funding to futher pediatric COVID study!!

Huriah Al Sultan, PhD student
Assistant Director of LII

We are thrilled to announce that Huriah Al Sultan, Assitant Director of the LII and a PhD student has been awarded funding for her work.  Huriah submitted a grant proposal titled: Using novel diagnostic tools and risk factors to promote the long-term health of children infected with post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection.  The proposal was selected for funding and her award will go towards the accelerated costs of running additional participants and the associated cost of biomarkers. The SDMS Foundation Research Grant Program provides support for innovative research projects which advance the field of diagnostic medical sonography.  They award funds between $2,500-$5,000 per year.  Congratulations to Huriah for being funded and pushing our important work forward!!