{"id":6072,"date":"2021-02-09T15:34:50","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T20:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/\/?p=6072"},"modified":"2021-02-09T15:34:50","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T20:34:50","slug":"cassidy-and-thoma-receive-university-junior-faculty-development-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/2021\/02\/cassidy-and-thoma-receive-university-junior-faculty-development-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Cassidy and Thoma Receive University Junior Faculty Development Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/\/directory\/dr-jessica-cassidy-pt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jessica Cassidy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/\/directory\/louise-thoma-pt-dpt-phd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Louise Thoma<\/a>, both assistant professors in the Division of Physical Therapy, have received Junior Faculty Development Awards from the University. The awards are internal fellowships that provide support for a professional or scholarly project.<\/p>\n<p>Cassidy, a well-known researcher in the area of stroke whose laboratory focuses on developing neuroimaging-based biomarkers to advance stroke rehabilitation practice, will use the funds for continued research.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4688\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 210px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/583\/2019\/04\/BW-9454-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4688\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/583\/2019\/04\/BW-9454-1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Jessica Cassidy, DPT, PhD\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/583\/2019\/04\/BW-9454-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/583\/2019\/04\/BW-9454-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/583\/2019\/04\/BW-9454-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/583\/2019\/04\/BW-9454-1-341x512.jpg 341w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Jessica Cassidy, DPT, PhD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Thoma, who joined the faculty in 2019, will use the funds to research the experience with and perceived value of standardized intervention documentation for physical therapists.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5396\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 224px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/583\/2019\/08\/Louise-Thoma.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5396\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/583\/2019\/08\/Louise-Thoma-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"Louise Thoma, PT, DPT, PhD\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/583\/2019\/08\/Louise-Thoma-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/583\/2019\/08\/Louise-Thoma-768x1075.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/583\/2019\/08\/Louise-Thoma-731x1024.jpg 731w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/583\/2019\/08\/Louise-Thoma-600x840.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/583\/2019\/08\/Louise-Thoma.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Louise Thoma, PT, DPT, PhD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Cassidy,\u00a0PT, DPT, PhD, leads the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/\/research\/cassidy-plasticity-lab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cassidy Plasticity Lab<\/a>. Thoma,\u00a0PT, DPT, PhD, completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Delaware. The Division of Physical Therapy is housed in the Department of Allied Health Sciences.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica Cassidy and Louise Thoma, both assistant professors in the Division of Physical Therapy, have received Junior Faculty Development Awards from the University. The awards are internal fellowships that provide support for a professional or scholarly project. Cassidy, a well-known researcher in the area of stroke whose laboratory focuses on developing neuroimaging-based biomarkers to advance &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/2021\/02\/cassidy-and-thoma-receive-university-junior-faculty-development-awards\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Cassidy and Thoma Receive University Junior Faculty Development Awards\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55977,"featured_media":4901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/583\/2019\/05\/DSC_0446.jpg","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/583\/2019\/05\/DSC_0446-300x200.jpg","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/583\/2019\/05\/DSC_0446-768x512.jpg","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/583\/2019\/05\/DSC_0446-1024x683.jpg","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/583\/2019\/05\/DSC_0446-150x150.jpg","featured_image_alt":"Bondurant Hall","category_details":[{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/category\/news\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}