Tzurei Chen, of Eugene, OR, and Andrew S. Merryweather, Ph.D., of Salt Lake City, UT, are the recipients of ASSE Foundation's Liberty Mutual Safety Research Fellowship Program, which supports research projects in occupational safety and health, and provides a link between safety professionals, industry needs and quality research.
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| Tzurei Chen |
Chen, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Oregon, will be conducting research on assessing the feasibility of using laboratory measures of gait imbalance to prospectively predict falls risk in the elderly.
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| Andrew Merryweather |
Merryweather, a research assistant professor at the University of Utah, will purse research on the study to evaluate the effects of hospital bed adjustments and slip parameters in a population of older adults who are prone to falls.
Chen and Merryweather will receive a stipend for living expenses as they spend 4 to 6 weeks at the Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety, in Hopkinton, MA, conducting their research. In addition, they will be asked to write an article for the Foundation's newsletter,
The Advocate, or write an article for
Professional Safety explaining the results of their research.
