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PM&R Faculty and Residents Present at ASRA 2025 in Austin, Texas

The UF Department of PM&R Residents were active at the Annual ASRA Pain Medicine Meeting in Austin, Texas, November 13-15, 2025. Residents presented research as podium poster presentations. Presenters included resident Drs. Abenezer Amare and Khashayar Rishsefid Mahalleh. Poster Presentation…

PM&R Faculty and Residents Present at AAPM&R 2025 in Salt Lake City

The UF Department of PM&R Residents and faculty were active at the Annual Assembly for AAPM&R in Salt Lake City October 22-25th. Multiple clinical and research faculty as well as residents and one medical student presented research and case-based topics. Image Gallery Presenters included: Rosalynn Conic, MD, MPH,…

Healthy Habits can make your brain age more slowly, study finds

Dr. Tanner, Dr. Sibille and colleagues’ recent article “More than chronic pain: behavioural and psychosocial protective factors predict lower brain age in adults with/at risk of knee osteoarthritis over two years” published in Brain Communications, was recently highlighted by the University of Florida Health news. Click here to read the news release…

PMR Faculty and residents show strong at ACSM 2025

Dr. Heather Vincent joined ACSM leaders Drs. Liz Joy and Kevin Vincent to discuss an ACSM priority area in Active Aging and Exercise is Medicine. The group symposium was titled ‘The Older I Get the Better I Was: Physiological Changes with Aging and how Exercise can Slow the Hands of…

UF PMR team is involved in the development of a novel approach that helps explain clinical heterogeneity in chronic musculoskeletal pain

Applying evidence-based cross-disciplinary concepts helps to explain the heterogeneity in pain, function, and biological measures in individuals with knee pain with/at risk of osteoarthritis Novel cross-discipline informed approach demonstrates significant differences in health outcome measures. See more in recent publication: “Applying evidence-based cross-disciplinary concepts helps to explain the heterogeneity…

Residents & faculty make strong showing at AAPMR

Current residents Drs. David Drozda, Daniel Kiehl, Rosalynn Conic and Kailash Pendem and faculty members Dr. Paula Ackerman and Parisa Zarreii had the opportunity to share their original research at the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (AAPMR) national meeting held in San Diego, CA November 6-10, 2024. Dr.

PMR Represents UF at ACSM

Dr. Aimee Madsen presented her META-ANALYSIS work on competitive figure skating injuries across the sport disciplines. Her poster presentation highlighted the different risks of injury based on singles, pairs, dancing and synchronized performances. Her associated manuscript has been accepted for publication in Current Sports Medicine Reports (CSMR). Dr. Daniel…

Dr. Thompson PGY3 presents at AAPM 2024

Dr. Zane Thompson presented his original work representing the research team with Drs. Daniel Kiehl, Kevin Vincent and colleagues Dr. Alisa Johnson and Jamie Bolling at the American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM) in Scottsdale AZ on March 9, 2024. https://aapmannualmeeting.com/ The topic was exploring the role of life…

PMR presents at IOC Conference in Monaco

PMR faculty, residents and research team presented original research at the 7th  International Olympic Committee (IOC) Conference on Prevention of Illness and Injury in Monaco during February 28-March 2, 2024. Dr. Jason Zaremski presented his findings on baseball pitch counts and led a workshop on designing workload related programming for…