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Welcome to the

Office of Research

I want to welcome you personally to the Office of Research in the College of Health Sciences. The College of Health Sciences at the University of Kentucky is committed to building an internationally recognized research enterprise. As the Associate Dean for Research, my goal is to build interdisciplinary research teams that bridge our two departments, Clinical and Rehabilitation Sciences. Our major areas of focus are:

• Frailty and Disability Prevention
• Reproductive Health
• Voice and Language Disorders

Our long term goal is to develop areas of research excellence in reproductive health and functional independence, with the latter emphasizing both mobility and communication skills. The Office of Research provides for project development and infrastructure for obtaining and managing extramural funding.

Current projects include:

• Understanding the aging voice and language processing
• Overcoming feeding and swallowing disorders
• Preventing muscle wasting during disuse and aging
• Controlling muscle stem cell function with obesity, following injury, and during aging
• Rehabilitation strategies to prevent long term muscle and joint dysfunction
• Infrastructure establishment for rehabilitative research in rural Kentucky
• Understanding voice maturation and development of voice disorders in children
• Preparing clinical health care providers for rural employment
• Relationship of student outcomes to school-based physical therapy services
• Regulation of ovulation to develop strategies to overcome infertility

All of our projects have a strong translational component such that research will lead to novel intervention and rehabilitation strategies to improve health and function by reducing illness and disability.

I invite you to take a few moments and browse this section of the CHS website to meet some of the great people we work with, and see some of the exciting work we’re doing.

— Charlotte A. Peterson, CHS Associate Dean for Research

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