Lab announcements

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Thanks for visiting this page where we work together to capture the various facets of our team's journey to date. For posts older than 2020, please see this website.

Andrea presents at AOTA

Posted on April 12, 2019

Laissez les bons temps rouler! (Let the good times roll!) Andrea has just returned from American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) Conference in New Orleans! She was selected to participate in a refereed research…

New Lab Video

Posted on April 03, 2019

Oscar season is still not over! Our lab members may soon become award winning actresses with the amount of filming that has been going on at CPERL. After wrapping up filming for Briana’s…

CPERL grows connection to CanChild

Posted on April 02, 2019

A new CanChild sponsored contract will support research and development activities in CPERL for the next two years, in partnership with our community partners! Mary serves as PI, Jessica as Co-I, and Dianna…

CPERL Welcomes Vivian

Posted on March 28, 2019

Vivian Villegas has joined CPERL! She is an MS/OTD student in her second year at UIC. She will be completing practicums in CPERL and at one of our local community partners, to build foundational…

T32 for Jarvis

Posted on March 28, 2019

CPERL has a bittersweet announcement. Jessica Jarvis, our first postdoctoral trainee, wraps up her time in our lab this week. She has chosen to transition to the University of Pittsburgh as an NIH…

Andrea and Briana awarded AOTF scholarships

Posted on January 08, 2019

Hard work does pay off! Andrea and Briana have been awarded merit-based scholarships on behalf of the American Occupational Therapy Foundation (AOTF) for their contributions as students to the OT profession.  They are two…

Celebrating progress

Posted on December 21, 2018

What a great team! Every now and then, it is time to celebrate! So we did. Twice. First, we had a joint lab party at the Khetani home – Bioengineering and Rehabilitation Science…

Poster Season

Posted on November 05, 2018

It's poster season at CPERL! Read about all the exciting opportunities we've had and that are coming up!

Dianna receives UIC Honors College grant

Posted on November 05, 2018

In September, Dianna applied for a UIC Honors College Research Grant. We are excited to announce that she was awarded $1,000 to defray costs of disseminating her capstone research project.

Two for two!

Posted on November 05, 2018

We did it again! We got NIH funds from CLDR to archive a second dataset from a bigger project to examine links between early intervention (EI) services and outcomes. This time, we have a dataset with elements across all major components of the ICF-CY

Forging Ahead in MS/OTD Journey

Posted on October 17, 2018

Briana and Andrea got a strong start to the academic year, as both passed their NBCOT exams to earn their OT certification in late August and then charged ahead to successfully complete and defend their field exams. Passing a field exam qualifies the

Data Collection Finale

Posted on September 08, 2018

We've reached the finish line for trying out some e-PROs with families enrolled in early intervention, as part of the second aim of our NIH R03 funded project.

CPERL welcomes first PhD student

Posted on August 30, 2018

Our CPERL team has grown in an important way!  We are excited to announce the addition of Vera Kaelin, a PhD student in Rehabilitation Science at UIC. She joins us all the way from Switzerland ...

From MS to OTD

Posted on August 17, 2018

It’s graduation season! Two lab members, myself, Andrea, and Briana, graduated in July with our MS degrees from UIC.

Gearing up to disseminate

Posted on August 16, 2018

This is an exciting time for our lab as team members prepare to share research progress across several national venues this Fall.

Congratulations to our newest lab alumna!

Posted on May 19, 2018

Heather has graduated with her BS in Kinesiology and recently accepted an offer to attend the OTD program in occupational therapy at Washington University in St. Louis, with a scholarship and graduate assistantship package.

CPERL Enrolls 100th Participant!

Posted on April 16, 2018

One of our ongoing NIH-funded projects involves the timely process of getting families to complete assessments of their child online as part of their child’s annual evaluation of progress. We are thrilled to…

Next Phase of PEM+ Development Published

Posted on April 16, 2018

This just in!  We are pleased to announce that our paper reporting on the feasibility of PEM+, a new e-health tool, has been accepted for publication in the American Journal of Occupational Therapy…

Lessons Learned (and Published)

Posted on April 16, 2018

We are excited to announce our latest publication, titled Community engagement to pilot electronic patient-reported outcomes (e-PROs) in early intervention: Lessons learned, in the Journal of Clinical and Translational Science.

New Team Member Alert

Posted on March 23, 2018

The CPERL team is excited to welcome Dianna Bosak as an undergraduate research assistant. Dianna is completing her junior year at UIC. She is majoring in psychology and political science and is enrolled in…

The Value of Being Understood

Posted on March 09, 2018

Our lab's work has been featured in the latest issue of our college magazine, thematically titled "mastering the art of healthcare communication".

Hot off the press

Posted on February 14, 2018

CPERL started the new year with the determination to make this year “twenty-GREAT-teen”, and a great year it has been already! Two manuscripts have been accepted for publication and we couldn’t be happier.…

Archiving Data on Early Intervention Service Use

Posted on December 05, 2017

The NIH funded Center for Large Data Research & Data Sharing in Rehabilitation (CLDR) recently funded a project for archiving one of two datasets from our NIH R03 funded project! We hope that these accessible data will be of use to EI stakeholder

Pediatric Rehabilitation Poster Award

Posted on October 31, 2017

This was an exciting year to be at the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM) in Atlanta! CPERL’s own Jessica Jarvis went center stage to accept the Pediatric Rehabilitation Research Poster Award on…

PEM+ Formative Paper Published

Posted on September 21, 2017

After years of hard work and months spent revising and reviewing our final manuscript, we are proud to announce that our submitted paper has just been accepted for publication in the Journal of…

Fostering interdisciplinary innovation

Posted on August 28, 2017

Christina is perhaps the most understated member to have joined our CPERL team to date. She was our first MS student intern from the UIC Biomedical Visualization program. During her research internship, Christina was charged…

CPERL's 1st Chicago-based Community Partnership

Posted on July 05, 2017

A very exciting development has recently occurred at CPERL: we have partnered with Blue Bird Day School (BBD), a local pediatric therapy school for children with developmental delays and/or diagnoses.