The Pedal-with-Pete Foundation is pleased to announce that it has awarded two grants after the great success of the 2010 rides: one to Nationwide Children’s Hospital (NCH) and the other to the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine (AACPDM).
Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s “Learn From Every Patient” Grant
Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s aim for the “Learn From Every Patient” Initiative, headed by Dr. Amy Newmeyer, Director of the CP Program at NCH, is twofold:
1. To develop evidence-based clinical care guidelines that represent the best known care for the condition of CP.
2. To evaluate clinical research questions that can be answered by following a population of children with CP over time.
Nationwide Children’s Hospital is one the largest and most comprehensive pediatric hospitals and research institutes in the United States. The mission of the Comprehensive CP Program at Children’s is “to provide outstanding clinical care, while fully integrating innovative translational research that will rigorously evaluate both current and novel therapeutic interventions in order to improve care of all children with cerebral palsy.”
AACPDM’s “Collaborative Study of Robotic Assisted Therapy in Children” Grant
The goal of this project is to establish a research collaborative dedicated to the evaluation of cutting-edge treatments for the improvement of motor function in children with Cerebral Palsy (CP) and other brain injuries. Robot-assisted therapy is a highly innovative, rehabilitative treatment which has already been shown to be effective in adult stroke patients for the improvement of upper extremity motor function. Pilot studies with children with CP have been very promising.
The AACPDM’s mission is to provide multidisciplinary scientific education for health professionals and promote excellence in research and services for the benefit of people with cerebral palsy and childhood-onset disabilities.
One way in which the AACPDM promotes research is through the annual $25,000 AACPDM Research Grant. The Research Grant Award provides seed funding to develop a high quality clinical research project/program. The award is expected to produce a competitive interdisciplinary, multi-investigator grant proposal for submission to larger agencies/funders of research in any area relevant to the AACPDM.
A grant from the Pedal-with-Pete Foundation will enable the AACPDM to fund an additional research project in 2011. The multicenter research project selected will be done collaboratively by the following four prestigious research organizations:
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- Blythedale Children’s Hospital, Valhalla, NY
- Riley Hospital for Children, Indianapolis, IN
- Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center, Downey, CA
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA
