Dr. Kerri Rodriguez
@KerriRodriguez0
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Assistant Professor at @UAZVetMed | Director of the Human-Animal Bond Lab (HAB Lab) | Exploring the dog-human relationship 🐾🦮 | she/her/hers
Tucson, AZ
Joined May 2020
Great article about pioneer of the HAI field @sandra_mccune! I love the advice to others: "Seize opportunities that come to you, take people with you, stay curious, watch your animals closely ... and keep talking to and learning from anyone who shares your passion for animals"
Thanks to @VetRecord for asking me to share my career journey and to the many people who have helped me along the way. I couldn't have travelled it without them. An incredible journey from veterinary nursing to human-animal bond researcher
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🚨🚨PhD position alert!! 🚨🚨We are looking for a doctoral student to carry out behavioural research on acoustic and visual communication in wolves and dogs @ Comparative Cognition Lab (University of Neuchatel, Switzerland) and the @DomLabVienna (@VetmeduniVienna, Austria)
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New RCT finds that seizure response dogs reduce seizure frequency, increase the number of seizure-free days, and improve the quality of life of adults with medically refractory epilepsy. https://t.co/1hiEg4WKWJ
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This was so fun! Thanks #ISAZ2024!
#ISAZ2024: Congratulations to @KerriRodriguez0 for winning the early career award @ISAZOfficial! So well deserved and we can’t wait to hear your speech!
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For military veterans with PTSD, service dogs are more than just pets - they can provide lifesaving, clinically meaningful benefits. Check out our article in @ConversationUS to learn more: https://t.co/0jB2K9iraQ
#Veterans #PTSD #ServiceDogs
theconversation.com
These dogs are trained to try to interrupt panic attacks and provide deep calming pressure to the people they’re matched with.
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Counter-acting the "black dog bias", new study finds that people actually have a bias towards, rather than against, a black courthouse facility dog when pictured with a testifying witness (compared to a white dog or no dog). @AnthrozoosJ #facilitydogs
https://t.co/jQi5asTCfV
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So proud to finally share this with the world! @OHAIRElab @k9sforwarriors "First NIH-funded clinical trial shows service dogs lower severity of PTSD symptoms in Veterans" https://t.co/FJ2AyMmFs8
news.va.gov
The National Institutes of Health-funded clinical trial links the pairing of Service Dogs with military Veterans to lowered PTSD severity.
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A new study finds that veterans paired with service dogs may be as much as 66% less likely to be diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. https://t.co/k40gqsmoUR
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Big announcement today! A first of its kind study funded by @NIH is now published in @JAMANetworkOpen that was conducted by @UAZVetMed in partnership with @k9sforwarriors. Read more below ⬇️ #ServiceDogs
#NationalPTSDAwarenessMonth
https://t.co/z4qN0WJqZC
nih.gov
Adding a service dog to usual care could reduce severity of PTSD symptoms, feelings of anxiety, and lower depression while enhancing quality of life.
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We're so grateful to @k9sforwarriors for allowing us to research outcomes from their program, and for our funders who made this work possible- @NICHD_NIH @NIH_NCCIH @IndianaCTSI @petcolove @MerrickPetCare @NewmansOwnFdn. And of course, to the veterans and doggos! 🇺🇸🐕🦺🪖🎖️
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Next up from us at @UAZVetMed: bigger RCT with long-term follow-up and multiple service dog providers (@NIH R01: https://t.co/34FFDCDPcq), and research on whether service dogs can enhance existing evidence-based therapy for #PTSD (soon to start @DeptofDefense grant)
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In fact, we found that compared to the waitlist, veterans paired with service dogs had 66% lower odds of a PTSD diagnosis after 3mo (controlling for demographic and clinical variables)
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We found that after 3 months, #servicedog partnership was associated with medium to large improvements in most areas of veterans' wellbeing, including self-reported and clinician-rated PTSD symptom severity, anxiety and depression, and quality of life
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‼️ Hot off the press! ‼️ So excited to share the results of our @OHAIRElab R21 non-randomized clinical trial establishing preliminary efficacy of psychiatric #servicedogs for military #veterans with #PTSD, published today in JAMA: https://t.co/z1NnmMTGUD
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I am so fascinated by the social experiment that is human-to-human interactions at dog parks...
Female dog keepers interacted more with others than male keepers and dogs of male keepers showed more exploratory behaviours than those of female keepers in a Japanese dog park.
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I am beyond honored to have received the ISAZ 2024 Early Career Award, following in the footsteps of badasses Maggie O'Haire, Carri Westgarth, Karin Hediger, and Megan Mueller👏Big shoes to fill! Excited to see everyone at #ISAZ2024 🇬🇧
Join us in congratulating the winner of the ISAZ 2024 Early Career Award, Dr. Kerri Rodriguez! Don't miss out on @KerriRodriguez0's Early Career Award Winner talk on Saturday, June 29 at #ISAZ2024
https://t.co/hAesVQsnle
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When the editing comments end up in the final manuscript 😝 It's the little things.
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Fascinating new article by the amazing @carlzimmer discussing new findings from @pratyusha_PS and @ProjectCETI on coda ‘alphabets’ in Sperm Whale songs https://t.co/GGONOR0OZw
nytimes.com
Sperm whales rattle off pulses of clicks while swimming together, raising the possibility that they’re communicating in a complex language.
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