… the leading cause of serious long-term disability. Stroke awareness is crucial for several reasons, primarily because it significantly impacts early detection, … on its own without any medical attention.  However, once you have a TIA, your risk for having a full ischemic stroke is much higher so we want people to understand that … stroke awareness is familiarizing people with the BE FAST acronym. BE FAST stands for B alance difficulties, E yesight changes, F ace drooping, A rm weakness, S peech …

… “I found it really inspiring and it looked like something I would love to do for families who have kids like mine.” Ochura had an undergraduate degree in … from Maseno University, both in her native Kenya. She had worked with the Centers for Disease Control performing behavioral research on HIV intervention and saw speech … SLP, Ochura says that her IHP education taught her non-clinical skills necessary for working in a hospital. She points to the importance of the IMPACT classes that …

… continuum. She recently spoke with OSC’s Lisa McEvoy about implementation science for this month’s IHP Interview. What is implementation science and why is it important? There is an often-quoted statistic that it takes 17 years for only 14% of research to get into practice. This reflects a significant gap — … practicing speech-language pathologist at Brigham & Women’s Hospital.  I was a PhD student and practicing speech-language pathologist at Spaulding Rehabilitation …