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LIBRE Animated Infographic Updated!
LIBRE’s informational video has had a redesign! This short animated infographic was created last fall to describe our project in a minute and a half. Over the past few months, we’ve worked with Boston University’s student run advertising agency, AdLab, to spruce up the graphics to give the video a smoother look and feel and […]
LIBRE in Chicago: American Burn Association 47th Annual Meeting
Phew, Team LIBRE made it back to Boston safely after a whirlwind week in Chicago, IL for the American Burn Association 47th Annual Meeting. The week was packed full of meetings with burn survivor groups and burn clinicians, giving and attending presentations, displaying our research through posters, and talking with people at our LIBRE booth […]
Explaining LIBRE – New Infographic Poster
How do you explain the LIBRE project in one visually appealing poster? On a single page, how do you show the impact burn injury has on daily life, why it needs to be studied and how the LIBRE Questionnaire will help us better understand and improve burn recovery? Well, we tasked a group of Boston […]
“The New Normal”: LIBRE in Boston University News
The LIBRE Project has made it into Boston University School of Public Health news! The article highlights the story of an amazingly resilient burn survivor, Diana Tenney, on her personal path from traumatic injury to what she describes as her “new normal”. Interwoven with Diana’s story are the insights of Amy Acton, the executive director […]
Halfway There, 300 Surveys Completed!
Just a quick update from LIBRE headquarters, we officially hit 300 completed surveys this week! We are now half way to our goal for this phase of the project, to have 600 surveys completed by burn survivors. As always, we’re overjoyed by the willingness of burn survivors to take the time to answer our survey […]
LIBRE Animated Infographic Unveiled
In the Fall of 2014, the LIBRE team worked with Boston University’s student run ad-agency, AdLab, to create our first animated infographic! The infographic is our way of getting the word out, in an easy to understand format, about what LIBRE is and why it’s important. In under 2 minutes, this video explains the need […]
LIBRE in Berlin: ISOQOL Conference October 2014
While this post is a little belated, we would be remiss to not mention LIBRE’s recent trip to Berlin! Back in October 2014, Molly Marino, LIBRE staff member and current PhD candidate, flew across the Atlantic to represent LIBRE at the International Society for Quality of Life Research (ISOQOL) Annual Conference. The theme of the […]
World Burn Congress Success!
We just got back in the office from a few days in sunny Anaheim, CA attending the Phoenix World Burn Congress (WBC). We’re still exhausted from an exhilarating few days meeting burn survivors, hearing amazing survivor stories, conducting surveys, and grabbing some California sun. This conference marked the official beginning of the second phase of […]
Drs. Kazis and Ryan Present on the Burn Outcomes Questionnaires (BOQ)
Drs. Lewis Kazis, Principal Investigator, and Colleen Ryan, co-investigator of the LIBRE project, presented at the Kaiser Permanente Population Health Strategy Webinar on August 28, 2014. Their presentation highlighted some of the excellent work they have done over the past decade to improve the care received by burn survivors. Drs. Kazis and Ryan spoke about […]