Providence VA Medical Center awarded $2.5M DOD contract for amputation care study

DR. LINDA J. Resnik, a research scientist at the Providence VA Medical Center, was awarded a nearly $2.5 million U.S. Department of Defense contract to study the care of veterans and service members with upper-limb amputations. / COURTESY DR. LINDA RESNIK
DR. LINDA J. Resnik, a research scientist at the Providence VA Medical Center, was awarded a nearly $2.5 million U.S. Department of Defense contract to study the care of veterans and service members with upper-limb amputations. / COURTESY DR. LINDA RESNIK

PROVIDENCE – Dr. Linda J. Resnik, a research scientist at the Providence VA Medical Center, was awarded a nearly $2.5 million U.S. Department of Defense contract last week to study the care of veterans and service members with upper-limb amputations.

The three-year contract was awarded by DOD’s Orthotics and Prosthetics Outcomes Research Program to the Ocean State Research Institute Inc., the nonprofit arm of the Providence VAMC.

Resnik, who is also a professor of research at Brown University’s Department of Health Services, Policy and Practice, said the study will be the largest, most comprehensive of its kind.

“Findings will be used to improve quality of care, and inform evidence-based policies for device prescription and provision of rehabilitation services,” she said in a press release.

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A number of agencies will collaborate on the study, including the University of Massachusetts Medical School; University of South Florida; Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine Inc., at the Center for the Intrepid at Brooke Army Medical Center; Tampa VA Research and Education Foundation at the James A. Haley VA Medical Center; North Florida Foundation for Research and Education at the Malcom Randall VA Medical Center; McGuire Research Institute at Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center; and the Seattle Institute for Biomedical and Clinical Research at VA Puget Sound Health Care System.

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