Foundation Funding recipients in the news. (Scholarships, Fellowships, and Grants).

Dina L Jones, PT, PhD, recipient of a PODS II scholarship in 1998, presented the results of her dissertation at the conference of the American College of Rheumatology/Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals in San Francisco in November 2001. Her abstract was published in September 2001 issue of Arthritis and Rheumatism (Volume 44, Number 9, supplement). In addition, Dr Jones has a poster accepted for the "International Conference for Health Promotion and Disability Prevention for Individuals and Populations with Rheumatic Disease: Evidence for Exercise and Physical Activity," in March 2002.

Michael C Schubert, PT, PhD, a PODS II recipient in 2000, published an article, "Role of Central Preprogramming in Dynamic Visual Acuity with Vestibular Loss," along with Susan Herdman, PT, PhD, and Ronald J Tusa, MD, PhD, in the October 2001 issue of Archives Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery (Volume 127). Dr Schubert has accepted a position for a postdoctoral fellowship beginning August 2002 at Johns Hopkins University. Dr Schubert will be working on research techniques using animal and human models under Floyd Minor, MD, and Richard Clendaniel, PT, PhD. Until August, Dr Schubert will be engaged in clinical vestibular research in the Dizziness and Balance Center and guest lecturing in the Physical Therapy School at Emory University in Atlanta, Ga.