Your Stories: Annual Research Day and Poster Session Held at Saint Francis

Attendees heard a keynote address from Elizabeth Gromisch, Ph.D., MSCS, research neuropsychologist at the Mandell MS Center.

The 2023 Research Day Poster Session and Keynote Address at Saint Francis Hospital was held on Thursday, November 9 at the Connecticut Institute for Primary Care Innovation (CIPCI). With 63 posters including over 100 authors, the event returned to in-person and showcased high-quality and impactful research from researchers and learners across the region.

Posters were presented by colleagues and physicians from Trinity Health Of New England, medical students, residents, undergraduate, and graduate students representing Quinnipiac University, the University of Connecticut, Trinity College, Oxford University, Mercy College, and the University of New England. In addition, this year included a submission by local youth from COMPASS Youth Collaborative. Departments represented included anesthesiology, CJRI, Community Health and Well Being, infectious disease, Mandell MS Center, nursing, psychiatry, obstetrics and gynecology, pharmacy, pulmonology, research, and surgery/trauma. Our investigators also worked with collaborators from more than 25 other local, national, and international universities and healthcare organizations.

The day included a keynote address from Elizabeth Gromisch, Ph.D., MSCS, research neuropsychologist at the Joyce D. and Andrew J. Mandell Center for Comprehensive Multiple Sclerosis Care and Neuroscience Research at Mount Sinai Rehabilitation Hospital. Dr. Gromisch, who is a Harry Weaver Scholar of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, presented on Participatory Action Research and its potential to engage patients as partners in the research process. Dr. Gromisch is a co-developer of the Multiple Sclerosis Resiliency Scale (MSRS), the first multidimensional measure of resiliency to MS-related challenges, which is currently being translated and investigated in other countries.

Submitted by Adis Halilovic, Research Associate and Rebecca Crowell, Director of Research Development.

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