Spotlight on the foundation's scientific review committee.

Katherine S Rudolph, PhD, PT, a Foundation doctoral research recipient in 1997, is the newest member of the Scientific Review Committee. She will begin her term in January 2006.

In 1993, Rudolph began teaching as Assistant Clinical Professor in the Physical Therapy Program of the University of California at San Francisco/San Francisco State University before moving to the University of Delaware in 1994. With only a brief sojourn at Boston University, Rudolph has remained at Delaware, where she received her PhD in Biomechanics and Movement Science in 1998. Currently, she is Assistant Professor in Delaware's Department of Physical Therapy and Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Biomechanics and Movement.

Specializing in knee biomechanics and movement analysis of people with neurologic injuries, Rudolph is experienced as both an NIH principal investigator/ coinvestigator as well as an NIH grant reviewer. In addition, she serves a manuscript reviewer for a number of publications, including the Journal of Applied Biomechanics and Arthritis Care and Research.

Amy J Bastian, PT, PhD, is Director, Motion Analysis Laboratory, Kennedy Krieger Institute, and Assistant Professor, Departments of Neurology, Neuroscience, and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md. She received Foundation funding in 1994 and 1995, and has since mentored 4 other recipients toward $90,000 in Foundation scholarships.

Her federal experience includes her roles as reviewer for National Science Foundation grants, an ad hoc reviewer on the NIH's Brain Disorders and Clinical Neuroscience study section, and membership on the NIH Task Force on Childhood Motor Disorders. Bastian has served as principal investigator on grants totaling more than $1 million. Her research foci include cerebellar ataxia (or how damage to the cerebellum can cause movement incoordination) and other human movement disorders and treatments associated with cerebral palsy and Parkinson disease.

Sue Ann Sisto, PT, MA, PhD, is Director of the Human Performance Laboratory Research Department, Kessler Medical Rehabilitation Research and Education Corporation in West Orange, NJ. She received Foundation funding in 1994 in support of her study "Differences in Baseline and After-Exercise Activity Levels in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Using a Portable Activity Monitor."

Sisto is currently the Collaborative Director of the Collaboration on Upper Limb Pain in Spinal Cord Injury (CULP-SCI) Collaborative Grant Multicenter Trial funded by the NIDRR. She is also the principal investigator of a project on another grant funded by NIDRR, "The Prevalence, Management and Maintenance of Weight Loss in Overweight and Obese Individuals With Chronic Spinal Cord Injury."

Sisto has received funding from corporations and foundations in addition to federal funding. She has served on the Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation Services grant review panel and the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) grant review panels at NIH.