The Outstanding Mentor Award honors faculty in The Ohio State University College of Medicine (OSUCOM) who have demonstrated exceptional dedication and career commitment to faculty mentoring. The 2025-2026 Outstanding Mentor Award for Associate Professors was recently awarded to CBIRD Faculty Member, Ceren Yarar-Fisher, PT, PhD.

The Center for Faculty Advancement, Mentoring, and Engagement (FAME) annually grants on a competitive basis, up to four awards for faculty members who demonstrate significant achievements that are attributable to participating in faculty development programming, directly put on by, or sponsored by, the Center for FAME. The FAME Early Career Achievement Award honors up to two Assistant Professors in the College of Medicine and Dr. Sabhya Rana, a Faculty Member of CBIRD, was awarded in the 2025-2026 cohort.

A urinary tract infection that follows a moderate brain injury can worsen cognitive problems caused by the injury, new research in mice shows. People who have experienced a traumatic brain injury (TBI) are susceptible to many types of infections, especially in the lungs. Yet previous studies have shown that bladder infections in this population are not uncommon: 15% of adult brain injury patients experience a urinary tract infection (UTI) within a year, and UTIs are responsible for up to 20% of hospital readmissions that occur within a year after a TBI. In addition, UTIs are known to cause delirium-like symptoms in medically vulnerable people.