Health Care Disparities Add Insult to Spinal Cord Injury
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- Received September 15, 2020
- Accepted March 9, 2021
- First Published April 16, 2021.
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Author Disclosures
- Miguel X. Escalon, MD, MPH,
- Amy Houtrow, MD, PhD, MPH,
- Felicia Skelton, MD, MS and
- Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez, MD
- Miguel X. Escalon, MD, MPH,
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90DPTB0009 - 9/30/2017 Â 9/29/2022 NIDILRR: Administration for Community Living $ 258,407.00 Title: The New York Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Model System at Mount Sinai Role: Co-Investigator 90SI5017 - 9/30/2016 - 9/29/2021 NIDILRR - Administration for Community Living $ 291,716.00 Title: Mount Sinai Spinal Cord Injury Model Systems Role: Co-Investigator 18-0362-00001-01 - 9/30/2016 - 9/29/2021 The Bronx Veterans Medical Research Foundation Inc. (Sub only) $ 21,836.00 NCE Title: Dose Response to the Norepinephrine Precursor Droxidopa in Hypotensive Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury Role: Site principal-Investigator
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- Amy Houtrow, MD, PhD, MPH,
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1) Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, section editor, 5 years2) Disability and Health, editorial board, 4 years3) Academic Pediatrics, editorial board, 1 year
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Tissue Tech -consultancy for Spina Bifida research
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NIH/NICHDMOMS2: Follow up of the Management 2012-2018U01HD068541of Myelomeningocele StudyProject Director (12%) $7,890,000CDCNational Spina Bifida Registry 2014-2022U01DD000737-07Co-I (2%) $180,000PCORIEarly Rehabilitation Protocol in the PICU2014-2017CER 1310-08343For Children with Acute Brain InjuryCo-I (5%) $1,870,000Health Resources Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental2016-2021and Services AdministrationDisabilities and Other Related DisabilitiesHRSA 16-031Co-I/ Faculty (12.5%) $600,000PA Department of HealthTechnology Assisted Children?s Home Program2016-2021Bureau of Family HealthPI (2.5%) $718,2504100073989
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- Felicia Skelton, MD, MS and
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2017/11/01-2022/10/31 VA HSR&D Career Development Award-2 (Historically Black Colleges and University Research Scientist Training Program)1 IK2 HX002484-04 Skelton, Felicia (PI) Optimizing Bacteriuria Management in Veterans with Spinal Cord Injury Exploring patient, provider, and environment factors driving current urine testing and treatment practices, with the goal of developing an intervention to minimize unnecessary testing and antibiotic use. Role: PI 2019/3/1-2023/28/2 VA RR&D Merit Review Trautner, Barbara W. (PI) Bacteriophage to treat multidrug-resistant UTI in persons with spinal cord injury, I01RX002595-01A2 We will be developing phage for a specific clinical application, to manage the resistant pathogens causing UTI in persons with spinal cord injury. Role: Co-Investigator 2020/10/1-2021/9/30 2020/10/1-2021/9/30 VA Office of Rural Health Skelton, Felicia and Touchette, Hilary (Co-PI) Supporting Telehealth for Rural Disabled Veterans: Creating an Implementation Toolkit In this project, we will create educational resources (SCI Fact Sheet and Implementation Toolkit) that provides guidance and resources to support implementation of video telehealth for rural veterans with disability from Spinal Cord Injuries and Disorders (SCI/D) by interviewing Veterans with SCI/D, SCI/D medical providers, and mental health providers who are interested in serving this population. Role: Co-PI
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- Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez, MD
(1) Ipsen (2) Allergan / AbbVie (3) Medtronic (4) Merz
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(1) Ipsen, financial payment (2) Allergan / AbbVie, financial payment (3) Medtronic, financial payment, flight (4) Merz, financial payment, flight
(1) American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Social Media Editor, 2018-present
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(1) Ipsen (2) Allergan / AbbVie (3) Medtronic (4) Merz (5) Piramal
(1) Ipsen (2) Allergan / AbbVie (3) Medtronic (4) Merz
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- Department of Rehabilitation and Human Performance. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. New York (MXE), NY; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (AH), University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA; Center for Innovations in Quality (FS), Effectiveness and Safety, Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX; H. Ben Taub Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (FS), Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; and Department of Rehabilitation Medicine (MV-G), Lozano Long School of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX.
- Correspondence
Dr. Escalon miguelxescalonmd{at}gmail.com
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