Jim Cavanaugh honored with research publication award

Jim Cavanaugh, PT, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Physical Therapy, has been selected as a co-recipient of the American Physical Therapy Associations’ Chattanooga Research Award for the article “Comparative Utility of the BESTest, Mini-BESTest, and Brief-BESTest for Predicting Falls in Individuals with Parkinson Disease: A Cohort Study”published in Physical Therapy.

The work was one of several products resulting from a 3-year multi-center research collaboration focusing on the natural history of quality of life and mobility decline in persons with Parkinson disease. Cavanaugh and his co-authors will be recognized this June with a ceremony and reception at the 2014 NEXT Conference and Exposition in Charlotte, North Carolina.