You're a damn professor with access to lots of brain power! JUST SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF STROKE RECOVERY!
You can be a great professor if you can solve that simple problem! Leaders solve problems; you're NO leader yet!
You're also pushing HIT, which I would never do!
High Intensity Training (46 posts to April 2017)
Oops, I'm not playing by the polite rules of Dale Carnegie, 'How to Win Friends and Influence People'.
Telling your supposedly smart stroke medical 'professionals' they know nothing about stroke is a no-no even if it is true.
Politeness will never solve anything in stroke. Yes, I'm a bomb thrower and proud of it. Someday a stroke 'leader' will try to ream me out for making them look bad by being truthful, I look forward to that day.
KU neurology professor persistent in push for more understanding of stroke rehabilitation
“She is a visionary,” Michael Abraham, M.D., a professor in the Department of Neurology, said of his colleague and frequent collaborator. “She thinks years into the future and has a good eye for the big picture.”
A generous collaborator
Billinger’s forward-thinking mindset doesn’t happen in a vacuum. For an innovative idea to reach its potential, Billinger believes that multiple perspectives are essential. (But, you're obviously missing the stroke survivor perspective; contact me at oc1dean@gmail.com and I'll give you my unfiltered perspective on all the failures in stroke! 32,000+ posts on that for my take)
“Collaboration has always been critical to me,” Billinger said. “It pushes me to think about things differently, explore new avenues of research or to see data from a different viewpoint.”
Billinger’s collaborative approach has proved inspiring to colleagues such as Sarah Eickmeyer, M.D., professor and chair of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
“She’s very generous with her time and open to multiple new team members at a given time,” Eickmeyer said.
As a physician also interested in stroke recovery, Eickmeyer appreciates the dynamic Billinger brings to the field.
“As a researcher, she really tries to understand where a busy clinician is coming from and seeks to integrate her research team into the clinical work,” Eickmeyer said. “That approach makes it seamless and easy to collaborate.”
most effective therapy protocols.(Stroke recovery therapy has only a 10% chance of full recovery. Should be working on solving the 5 causes of the neuronal cascade of death in the first week and thus saving hundreds of million to billions of neurons!)
That integration of perspectives has also shaped the scientific direction of Billinger’s laboratory. In her work with transcranial Doppler ultrasound, a noninvasive test that uses sound waves to measure blood flow in the brain’s major arteries, she sought to move beyond simple associations and examine how multiple physiologic systems interact during exercise. In an integrative study published in the Journal of Applied Physiology, Billinger and her team investigated how heart rate, blood pressure, carbon dioxide and cerebral blood flow influence one another during exercise. To answer those questions, she partnered with statisticians at the University of Washington. The collaboration generated first-of-its-kind data clarifying the relationships underlying cerebrovascular responses to exercise.
An attentive mentor
The qualities that make Billinger a respected colleague are also the ones that make her a sought-after mentor for younger medical professionals.
“Dr. Billinger is highly invested in the success of her trainees,” said Bria Bartsch, a student in KU’s rehabilitation science doctoral program who works in the Research in Exercise and Cardiovascular Health laboratory where Billinger serves as director. “She always makes time for updates and research questions despite being a very busy and accomplished researcher in the field of stroke recovery.”
Billinger’s dedication to her trainees is something that many have carried into their own careers.
“What stands out most to me is her combination of practical efficiency with genuine generosity in mentorship,” said Jacqueline Palmer, DPT, Ph.D., who worked alongside Billinger during her postdoctoral fellowship and is now an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota. “Sandy created an environment where I felt genuinely valued as a colleague and instilled in me a foundational principle I now carry in my own lab: that research participants and their experience come first.”
For Billinger, mentorship always begins with a conversation.
“To be a good mentor, I have to understand [my mentee’s] goals,” Billinger said. “When a mentee can articulate what exactly they want to do, then I try to position them with projects and connect them with others who can help them reach that goal.”
A future of innovation
In early February, Billinger traveled to New Orleans for this year’s International Stroke Conference, delivering a talk on high-intensity interval training, part of her ongoing effort to refine how intensity is defined and implemented in stroke recovery. This year will also mark the release of Billinger’s stepper submaximal exercise test as a smartphone app, translating years of research into a tool designed to increase access to precision-guided exercise. There’s also her home garden, which she’ll continue to cultivate.
Whether advancing stroke recovery or tending to new growth at home, Billinger remains focused on building systems that endure.
“Persistence, I think, is part of innovation,” Billinger said. “You’ve got to keep pushing for it.”
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