{"id":12179,"date":"2025-03-21T11:27:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T18:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mr66givry2.onrocket.site\/?p=12179"},"modified":"2026-03-04T14:59:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T22:59:04","slug":"early-career-scholars-feature-scott-uhlrich-phd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/es\/early-career-scholars-feature-scott-uhlrich-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Career Scholars Feature: Scott Uhlrich, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"date-of-publication\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12180\" src=\"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Scott20Uhlrich-200x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Scott20Uhlrich-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/myotonic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Scott20Uhlrich.png 504w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Meet one of our 2025 Early Career Scholars,\u00a0<strong>Scott Uhlrich, PhD!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Uhlrich\u2019s early work in osteoarthritis highlighted the limitations of current movement outcome measures, which led him to the co-development of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.opencap.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OpenCap<\/a>\u2014an affordable, portable tool for measuring movement using smartphone video. Today, OpenCap is used by over 5,000 users around the world and is making an impact in neuro-musculoskeletal disease research, including studies in myotonic dystrophy (DM).<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Uhlrich has co-authored 15 papers on computational biomechanics, computer vision, and machine learning\u2014key areas that drive his current work in DM. His recent focus has been on improving movement measurement in DM through digital tools, such as the Stanford Digital Health Day study. He is currently collaborating with Dr. Russ Butterfield at the University of Utah to expand the dataset and plan a Utah Digital Health Day.<\/p>\n<p>As the director of the Movement Bioengineering Laboratory at the University of Utah, Dr. Uhlrich leads a team focused on building better tools for understanding and tracking movement in rare diseases. His MDF-funded project,\u00a0<strong>\u201cNovel digital functional outcome measures for myotonic dystrophy using smartphone video<\/strong>,\u201d reflects his ongoing commitment to advancing care and improving treatment outcomes for people living with DM.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myotonic.org\/myotonic-dystrophy-foundation-research-grants-funding-resources\">Click here to learn more about MDF&#8217;s research funding opportunities and prior grant recipients.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet one of our 2025 Early Career Scholars,\u00a0Scott Uhlrich, PhD! Dr. Uhlrich\u2019s early work in osteoarthritis highlighted the limitations of current movement outcome measures, which led him to the co-development of\u00a0OpenCap\u2014an affordable, portable tool for measuring movement using smartphone video. Today, OpenCap is used by over 5,000 users around the world and is making an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":12180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-12179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-grant-fellowship-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}