Across the United States approximately 27% of the 52 million school-age children attending grades K-12 experience at least one chronic medical condition requiring them to receive medication during the school day. Due to budgetary cuts, 18% of schools have no designated school nurse, leaving the majority of medication administration to unlicensed assisted personnel (UAP).

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease affecting nearly one million Americans. PD patients suffer from debilitating motor symptoms affecting their ability to function, communicate, and care for themselves. PD patients can also suffer from non-motor symptoms including dementia, depression, sleep disorders, and more.

Physical inactivity is a risk factor for several chronic diseases, especially among older adults. Conversely, engaging in regular physical activity reduces the risk for these chronic diseases and has been known to improve cognitive function, physical function and quality of life among older adults.

KL2 scholar Jordan Schultz and his research team receive an Accelerator Grant from the Iowa Neuroscience Institute to support high-impact neuroscience research.

Boyd Knosp, MS, has been awarded the designation of Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA).

Congratulations to Maran Subramain, PhD, on being selected to receive a competitive travel scholarship to attend the American Evaluation Association (AEA) conference.

Nancy Humbles, current Stakeholder Advisory Board member, will be inducted into the Iowa African American Hall of Fame.

Nick Trapp, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry and recent M.S. in Translational Biomedicine graduate, shares study he is conducting on the brain with the hopes that the study could eventually provide treatment for certain disorders.