April 11 — Doctoral candidate awarded best paper at national burn conference
Ingrid Parry, a doctoral candidate at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis, was awarded best Clinical Research Paper Award at the 2025 annual meeting of the American Burn Association (ABA) in Phoenix. Her study, “Using Cutaneous Functional Units (CFUs) to understand burn characteristics associated with range of motion at hospital discharge in adult burn survivors,” assesses acute burn characteristics associated with scar contractures after burn injury. Using a novel framework that evaluates how skin accommodates limb and body motion, she seeks to better predict the patients and body areas that are vulnerable to developing motion problems. The goal is that this information can be used to guide more targeted and personalized interventions for burn survivors to prevent them from experiencing burn scar contractures and other negative scar problems. Ingrid is a physical therapist and researcher at Shriners Children’s Northern California. She was president of the (ABA) for the 2022-2023 year, which was the organizations first non-surgeon/non-physician president. Ingrid is in her final year of the Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing Science and Health-care Leadership program.

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