In the next few blog posts we will be introducing our Operational Committees. Operational Committees work on the short and long-term goals driven by the strategic plan and vision of the organization. Each committee has a specific purpose and works closely with the Board of Directors and IADMS staff to accomplish their goals. We have ten committees, which include the following:

• Dance Educators
• Dance for Health
• Development
• Physician
• Professional Development
• Program
• Promotion
• Publications
• Research
• Student

We asked each of our committees to share with us information about what their committee is about and what work they get up to. Below you will see responses from the Research Committee:

What work within IADMS is the Research Committee responsible for?

The Research Committee aims to promote and strengthen research excellence within the dance medicine and science community and encourages the dissemination of scholarly research among researchers, educators, and healthcare practitioners. The committee adjudicates the Student Research Award and Student Researcher Travel Fund as well as the IADMS poster competition at the IADMS Annual Conference. The committee Chair, in cooperation with current Fellows and the Board of Directors, informs the Fellowship of IADMS (FIADMS) process which recognizes individuals with esteemed professional achievement, skills, knowledge, and service to IADMS and the dance medicine and science community.

What is the mission statement for the Research Committee?

Mission: The IADMS Research Committee’s mission is to promote and strengthen research excellence within the dance medicine and science community and encourage the dissemination of scholarly research among researchers, educators, and health-care practitioners. As a systems-based committee we achieve these aims by working across committees by supporting all researchers, from early, mid to established career researcher professionals.

Who are your current members?

Chair: Danielle Jarvis, PhD, ATC

Manuela Angioi, PhD, FIADMS

Amandine Blackman, MA

Allison Seifert Gonzales, PhD, CSCS, ACMS-EP

Catherine Haber, MSc

Dirk Hartog, PT, DPT, OCS, CSCS

Allison Jackson, PT, DPT, OCS

Mayumi Kuno-Mizumura, PhD

Aline Nogueira Haas, PhD

Angela Pickard, PhD

Alycia Fong Yan, PhD

Nili Steinberg, PhD

Tom Welsh, PhD

What are some of the recent projects your committee has been working on?

• Revising the process and scoring criteria for the student research award
• Revising the process and scoring criteria for the poster competition
• Developing additional resources to supplement the Research Methods in the Dance Sciences textbook
• Developing a proposal for an IADMS Research Grant

Read more about the Research Committee in our Committee Charter: https://iadms.org/media/6522/iadms-research-committee-charter.pdf