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Julie M. Faieta

Assistant Professor
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Julie Faieta is an assistant professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology, University of Pittsburgh (Pitt).  Dr. Faieta attained her PhD in Health and Rehabilitation Sciences in 2019 prior to completing a postdoctoral fellowship at University Laval and the Cirris Research Center where she maintained funding as a Mitacs Accélération Fellowship Awardee and AGE-WELL Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Award in Technology and Aging recipient. Dr. Faieta’s research work continues to be largely focused on assistive technology development and evaluation for cognitively impaired populations, and effective implementation of rehabilitation for persons with neurodegenerative conditions. She developed the Health App Review Tool (HART) as her dissertation project, then continued to refine the HART at Laval, leading the attainment of a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Partnership Engage Grant ($25,000) to study the HART’s usability. Since arriving at Pitt in September 2021, Dr. Faieta has attained 6 grants (4 PI, $302,400), 2 awards, and 1 provisional patent. Dr. Faieta’s formal research contributions include 29 peer reviewed publications, (11 first author, 5 senior author), and 44 international presentations and 5 national presentations.
 
Dr. Faieta maintains multiple service and leadership positions to include, 1) membership in the ACRM Neurodegenerative Diseases Networking Group (NDNG) since 2017 2) chair of the NDNG Alzheimer’s Disease Task Force (2017- present), 3) NDNG Social Media Officer (2020 - present), and 3) NDNG Liaison to the Career Development Networking Group (CDNG)(2021 - present). In working with the CDNG, Dr. Faieta developed a mentee-to-mentor matching algorithm to support efficiency, accuracy, and equity in the CDNG Leadership and Research Mentorship Programs. Dr. Faieta is incoming chair of the ACRM Complementary Integrative Medicine Networking Group (2024). Dr. Faieta’s serves on the Rehabilitation Engineering Society of North America Board of Directors and as Student Scientific Paper Competition Chair.

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