Five UF medical students completed their Summer 2026 Medical Student Research Program (MSRP) in the PM&R Department, working with Research Division team members, faculty, and residents. The MSRP is a 10-week summer research experience for first-year medical students at the UF College of Medicine. Each PM&R MSRP student worked on…
The UF Department of PM&R was active at the 8th Annual ASPN Meeting in Miami, Florida, July 16-19, 2026. Resident Dr. Khashayar Rishsefid Mahalleh presented a poster. Poster Presentation Temperament helps to explain individual differences in clinical pain, sensory sensitivity, and psychosocial…
UF PMR Research Day Jubilee 2026
Faculty, researchers and trainees in PMR presented at the 2026 Celebration of Research Day on various topics. Read more below: David Zhang, a pre-medicine intern with the PMR team, presented “Development of 2-D Printed Lumbar Spine Phantoms for Fluoroscopy-Guided Injections in PMR Resident Education and Training”. Animesh Borad, a…
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…
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 Poster authors included: Rosalynn Conic, MD,…
Congratulations to author team on their recent publication in Journal of Sport and Health Science. Finings indicate strength training throughout life may help promote lower pain levels and preserve mobility and physical activity in later years. See the full article at PubMed. Kiehl D, Thompson Z, Johnson A, Sibille…
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. Read the news release titled “Healthy…
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…
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…
