Workshop on Disability in America A New Look: Summary and Background Papers (2006) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix P Biographical Sketches of Workshop Committee and Workshop Presenters
Appendix P Biographical Sketches of Workshop Committee and Workshop Presenters
Pages 265-276
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Following the workshop and with the initiation of the second phase of the disability study, additional members were appointed to the committee: Michael Chernew, Ph.D., professor of health management and policy, School of Public Health, University of Michigan; Margaret A Turk, M.D., professor of physical medicine & rehabilitation, State University of New York Upstate Medical University at Syracuse; Gregg Vanderheiden, Ph.D., professor of industrial and biomedical engineering and director, Trace Research and Development Center, University of Wisconsin at Madison; and John Whyte, M.D., Ph.D., director, Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Philadelphia.
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He is director of the Northwestern University Rehabilitation Engineering Program and the Northwestern University Prosthetics Research Laboratory and executive director of the Northwestern University Prosthetics and Orthotics Education Program. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and served with the Committee on Assessing Rehabilitation Science and Engineering.
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Her research interests include risk adjustment for measuring health care outcomes; developing and evaluating methods for assessing quality of care; and examining the personal and societal implications of disability, specifically, difficulty walking. June Isaacson Kailes, M.S.W., L.C.S.W., is an adjunct professor and associate director at the Center for Disability Issues and the Health Professions,
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For more than 10 years, she was involved with the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Aging-Related Changes in Impairment for Persons Living with Physical Disabilities, a federally funded center headquartered at Rancho Los Amigos Medical Center in Downey, California. Additional research activities include a study on osteoporosis in adults with cerebral palsy and, more recently, a primary care initiative to improve access to care for adults with disabilities.
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He has served on four Institute of Medicine committees, including the Committee on the Evaluation of Selected Federal Health Care Quality Activities, the Committee on Improving Quality in Long-Term Care, the Committee on the Quality of Long-Term Care Services in Home and Community-Based Settings, and the Workshop on Maternal and Child Health Under Health Care Reform. For the American Academy of Pediatrics, Dr.
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Department of Veterans Affairs cooperative study entitled Anabolic Therapy on Pressure Ulcer Healing in Persons with Spinal Cord Injury. He has served on the boards of directors for the American Paraplegia Society and the American Spinal Injury Association.
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He has been in the intramural epidemiology research program at the National Institute on Aging since 1985. His primary areas of interest in the epidemiology of aging include the study of physical functioning and disability, the prevalence and impact of multiple coexisting chronic conditions, factors associated with healthy aging, methods of assessment of health and functional status, and trends in the demographic and health status characteristics of the older population.
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to develop a web-based health care transition training curriculum for program staff; and a contract from the Florida Developmental Disabilities Council to develop web-based health care transition training materials for families and youth. Through the NIDRR grant, Dr.
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Her research on children's health and children with chronic conditions has been supported by a number of federal agencies and private foundations. For more than a decade she was director and principal investigator of the National Institute of Mental Health-supported Preventive Intervention Research Center for Child Health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center.
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Major investigations focus on spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury program evaluation, functional assessment, handicap-participation measurement, environmental impact assessments, long-term outcomes, aging, and the cost of lifetime care. He is the author of three books, numerous articles, and the Craig Handicap Assessment and Reporting Technique and the Craig Hospital Inventory of Environmental Factors, which are used in the national spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury databases and other disability research.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 275 American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, The American Paralysis Society, the International Society of Paraplegia, and the American Spinal Injury Association. He served as a consultant to the World Health Organization for the revision of the International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities and Handicaps and the development of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health.
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