{"id":141500,"date":"2025-04-06T13:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T17:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=141500"},"modified":"2025-04-06T13:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T17:21:08","slug":"good-shepherds-disrupt-2025-challenges-attendees-to-think-act-boldly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=141500","title":{"rendered":"Good Shepherd&#8217;s DISRUPT 2025 Challenges Attendees To Think, Act Boldly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>Caption: Dabin Choe, PhD candidate in the Harvard Biodesign Lab at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, speaks to a crowd of 200 at DISRUPT: Health-Care Innovation Summit, hosted by Good Shepherd Rehabilitation, at ArtsQuest Center on April 5, 2025.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>3rd annual health-care conference draws 200 to ArtsQuest<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>BETHLEHEM, Pa. (Saturday, April 5, 2025) \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Good Shepherd Rehabilitation welcomed 200 people to ArtsQuest today for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodshepherdrehab.org\/about-us\/newsroom\/disrupt-2025-challenges-attendees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3rd annual DISRUPT<\/a>: Health-Care Innovation Summit conference.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the day-long conference,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodshepherdrehab.org\/innovation\/disrupt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DISRUPT<\/a>\u00a0attendees immersed themselves in bold ideas, groundbreaking innovations and powerful conversations challenging us all to rethink what\u2019s possible in health care.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHealth care is changing, and it\u2019s changing because of people like you \u2014 people who refuse to accept, \u2018This is how it\u2019s always been done\u2019 and instead ask, \u2018How can we make it better?&#8217;\u201d said\u00a0<strong>Emily Lyter<\/strong>, PT, DPT, administrative director of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodshepherdrehab.org\/innovation\/good-shepherd-learns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Good Shepherd Learns<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodshepherdrehab.org\/innovation\/good-shepherd-creates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Creates<\/a>, and chair of the DISRUPT\u2019s planning committee. \u201cLet\u2019s build on what we\u2019ve started here and turn it into something bigger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The conference hosted accomplished speakers from throughout the country with expertise in human-centered design, brain-computer interfaces, innovating with purpose and passion, digital health care, payers, wearable robotics and high-impact, low-cost assistive technology.<\/p>\n<p>A special thank you to our presenters:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gokul Krishnan, PhD<\/li>\n<li>Chad Bouton, PhD<\/li>\n<li>Anang Chokshi, DPT<\/li>\n<li>Jeremy B. Wigginton, MD, MBA, FAAFP<\/li>\n<li>Dabin Choe, PhD candidate<\/li>\n<li>Alexander Geht, MS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>DISRUPT also featured two poster presentation sessions and a lively vendor fair with higher education, technology and professional development displays. Attendees hailed from a variety of clinical settings (e.g., inpatient, outpatient, long-term care, long-term acute care) and roles, including physicians, nursing, occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech therapy, social work, recreational therapy, psychology, respiratory therapy and more.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to our 2025 sponsors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Strolll<\/li>\n<li>Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern PA<\/li>\n<li>Lifeward<\/li>\n<li>Perelman School of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Save the Date for 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DISRUPT returns in 2026 and will expand to a two-day conference. Save the date for April 18-19, 2026, at ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks in Bethlehem, Pa. For information, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodshepherdrehab.org\/disrupt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.goodshepherdrehab.org\/disrupt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Good Shepherd Rehabilitation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Good Shepherd Rehabilitation, an independent, not-for-profit rehabilitation network with 1,300 employees and nearly 30 locations in eight counties of eastern Pennsylvania, is committed to transforming the lives of people of all ages and abilities through curiosity, creativity, expertise and innovation. Headquartered in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Good Shepherd Rehabilitation specializes in treatment of spinal cord injury, brain injury, stroke, major multi-trauma, pulmonary disease, respiratory failure, musculoskeletal\/orthopedics and complex pediatric conditions. Good Shepherd Rehabilitation also partners with Penn Medicine to provide rehabilitation and specialty services at more than 30 locations in Philadelphia and New Jersey through\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pennrehab.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GSPP Rehabiltation<\/a>. Info:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodshepherdrehab.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.goodshepherdrehab.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nMike Walbert<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caption: Dabin Choe, PhD candidate in the Harvard Biodesign Lab at the Harvard John A. 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