ACRM Conference Resources
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References
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2. Shaw, B. H., Stiles, L. E., Bourne, K., Green, E. A., Shibao, C. A., Okamoto, L. E., Garland, E. M., Gamboa, A., Diedrich, A., Raj, V., Sheldon, R. S., Biaggioni, I., Robertson, D., & Raj, S. R. (2019). The face of postural tachycardia syndrome – insights from a large cross-sectional online community-based survey. Journal of Internal Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1111/joim.12895
3. Bourne, K. M., Chew, D. S., Stiles, L. E., Shaw, B. H., Shibao, C. A., Okamoto L. E., Garland, E. M., Gamboa, A., Peltier, A., Diedrich, A., Biaggioni, I., Sheldon, R. S., Robertson, D., & Raj, S. R. (2021). Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome is associated with significant employment and economic loss. Journal of Internal Medicine, 290, 203-212. https://doi.org/10.1111/joim.13245
4. Stiles, L. E., Cinnamon, J., & Balan, I. (2018). The patient perspective: what postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome patients want physicians to know. Autonomic Neuroscience, 215, 121-125. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autneu.2018.06.002
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Projects Coming Up...
ACRM October 2024: Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS): Implementing an Interdisciplinary Group Program in an Outpatient Setting 9660
Emily will be presenting a short course at the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine Conference in Dallas, TX in fall 2024.
ACRM October 2024: Multimodal Group Rehabilitation Improves Function in Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS)
Emily will have a poster at the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine Conference in Dallas, TX in fall 2024.
More to come...
Emily will be submitting manuscripts for publication in addition to further dissemination of the work at conferences this fall and next year.