{"id":5197,"date":"2018-01-02T07:30:17","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T13:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/?p=5197"},"modified":"2018-09-24T11:07:49","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T16:07:49","slug":"siu-and-chien-superstar-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/2018\/01\/02\/siu-and-chien-superstar-finalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Siu and Chien &#8211; superstar finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p>Ka-Chun (Joseph) Siu, PhD, associate professor in the UNMC Division of Physical Therapy Education and director of the Chinese MS-DPT program, and Jung Hung (JC) Chien, PhD, post-doctoral research associate were selected recently as finalists at the Institutional Development Award (IDeA)-Clinical and Translational Research (CTR) superstar competition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We pitched our research idea at the annual IDeA-CTR meeting in October and were honored to be among the top three finalists,&#8221; said Siu.<\/p>\n<p>Their project was titled, &#8220;A mobile application for enhancing health care access for older adults in rural and isolated areas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The National Institutes of Health (NIH) established the IDeA program in 1993 to enhance biomedical research activities in states that have had historically low NIH grant funding success rates.<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/voicedwhispering.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"lUWxkcScy tWThmhb\">lUWxkcScy tWThmhb<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ka-Chun (Joseph) Siu, PhD, associate professor in the UNMC Division of Physical Therapy Education and director of the Chinese MS-DPT program, and Jung Hung (JC) Chien, PhD, post-doctoral research associate were selected recently as finalists at the Institutional Development Award (IDeA)-Clinical and Translational Research (CTR) superstar competition. &#8220;We pitched our research idea at the annual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":5196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,45,7,9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-deans-office","category-frontpage","category-kudos","category-physical-therapy","category-research-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5197"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5400,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5197\/revisions\/5400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}