John J. Fraser, DPT, PhD, FACSM

The views expressed are my own and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of the Navy, Department of Defense, nor the U.S. Government.

I wanted to wish my Marine brothers and sisters a wonderful 251st birthday. There are no better friends. This picture is with the @The24MEU on the way home to Camp Lejeune after disembarking from my 7-month deployment in 2010. I hope you are all doing well, wherever you are.

In our latest preprint, we investigated career-long science attrition in investigators in the @DeptVetAffairs from FY08 until Q1 FY26. Investigators with a prior career development award were 42% less likely to attrite from research compared to non-CDAs medrxiv.org/content/10.648…

This invention started with a conversation with my friend over lunch. I asked if he could develop an adaptive material for a brace that allowed normal kinematics in the ankle, but then provided increasing support toward the end of the range of motion. 1/2

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Happy to see this in my email just now. I started running down this line since I got frustrated at decisions being made on absent evidence, on research that had lots of room for improvement, or assumptions that were based on male SMs serving in the Army.
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