VCOM 2021 Annual Report

RESEARCH

Innovative Research at VCOM

Response to COVID-19: Resuming and Initiating Research S ince the start of the pandemic, federal and private agencies have been issuing research funding opportunities focused on diagnosing, treating, and vaccinating against COVID-19 and addressing the pandemic’s impact on communities and individuals. VCOM faculty and students continue to engage in a wide variety of research initiatives relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic, including biomedical, public health, epidemiological and medical education research topics, providing key data and services to combat the pandemic and the ongoing effect on communities. The VCOM Research Division shares new opportunities regularly with its faculty via emails and through its monthly Scholarly Spotlight and quarterly newsletter. • Risk Mitigation Plans for resuming research or initiating new protocols • Transition to virtual research activities where possible • COVID-19 risk and risk reduction strategies for informed consent documents • Development and use of daily contact tracing logs • VCOM student return to laboratory-based research • Detailed procedures for research operations based on CDC and state health departments guidance. VCOM Research Division has provided guidance to researchers on:

Research Categories of Study Biomedical, Educational and Clinical Research

Musculoskeletal Research

Population and Community Health and Healthcare Delivery • Fitness and health behaviors • Nutrition and obesity • Women’s Health • International research in Zika Virus • International water quality studies • Health in international disadvantaged populations • International Environmental toxicology Educational Research • Simulation, Educational models and service-based learning • Medical education and graduate medical education • Interprofessional education • Educational technology • Teaching methods and assessment tools General Medicine/ Other • Ethics research • Military research on blood storage, combat casualty care

• Injury prevention • Rehabilitative care • Kinesiology • Sports Medicine • Nutraceuticals and natural products • Lupus OMM/OMT • Opioid pain management alternatives • Neuromusculoskeletal health • Biomechanically derived studies • Medical imaging derived studies • Quantitative outcomes studies Neuroscience • Neurodegenerative disease including Alzheimer’s • Aging and neurological research • Nanomedicine and neurologic health • Concussion and Traumatic Brain Injury including blast injury Cancer Research and Genetics • Precision medicine • Computational biology and bioinformatics solutions • Biomarker and drug target discovery • Genomics • Genetic basis of disease • Translational research

• Cardiopulmonary • Free radicals and antioxidants • Birth defects • Diabetes • Immunotoxicology • Pharmacology

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