Dr. Letitia Graves (second left), an early career research scientist focused on improving care for Veterans with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI), begins her work with Advanced Platform Technology (APT) Center Investigator and Research Career Scientist Dr. Kath Bogie (third left). Dr. Graves was granted one of 10 inaugural Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Research and Development, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Research Awards this summer. Dr. Bogie received a $210,000 supplement to support Dr. Graves' 2 year project designed to help determine how symptom science can be used to help explain, predict, and manage secondary health conditions following SCI.
Individuals living with SCI must often also manage significant secondary health conditions and symptoms such as pain, fatigue, sleep disturbance, and pressure injury. However, very little work has been done to examine the convergence of multiple co-occurring symptoms following injury. Dr. Graves will be incorporating research being conducted in Dr. Bogie's lab and will be focusing her work on early identification of pressure injury risk for those living with SCI.
Dr. Graves comes to the APT Center, at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, after many years serving as a clinician and educator in SCI units at two other VA Medical Centers. Dr. Graves completed her Ph.D. in Nursing with a minor in Health Care Genetics, at the University of Pittsburgh, followed by post-doc training at the National Institute of Nursing Research as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Future of Nursing Scholar. She will use this project to further develop her research with the VA, ultimately seeking to become a Research Career Scientist.
About the APT Center
The Advanced Platform Technology (APT) Center is a Department of Veterans Affairs Research Center in the Rehabilitation Research and Development Service. The Center addresses the pressing clinical needs of disabled Veterans by harnessing the most recent developments in untapped engineering and basic science disciplines and applying them to design and disseminate new rehabilitation interventions.
Learn more about the APT Center and the Cleveland VA Medical Center by visiting our websites and please subscribe to the APT Center YouTube channel to stay updated on our research.
https://www.aptcenter.research.va.gov
https://www.cleveland.va.gov
Image (from left): Dr. Neal Peachey (ACOS/Research LSCVAMC), Dr. Letitia Y. Graves, Dr. Kath M. Bogie and Dr. M. Kristi Henzel.
Photo Credit: Cleveland VA Medical Center
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