Redefining healthcare requires visionary leadership. At Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, the best minds in medicine, science and business converge around one goal: To Advance Human Ability.

The Center for Smart Use of Technologies to Assess Real World Outcomes (C-STAR) offers the expertise, instruction and mentorship to educate rehabilitation researchers on the meaningful use of a vast array of technologies in the lab, clinic and community.

Your assistance helps ensure research remains an essential part of our mission to help patients recover abilities that have been lost or impaired and return to full lives.

Through creating art and reflecting on the artistic process, people can increase awareness of self, cope with symptoms and stress, enhance cognitive abilities and enjoy the pleasures of making art.

Physical therapists (PTs) play a critical role on the care teams at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab —helping patients regain function and improve balance, mobility, strength, endurance and range of motion.

Follow along for a day in the life of Mary Yonkaitis, a PT in the Margaret & Mark Stephan Legs + Walking Lab at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab’s flagship hospital in Chicago, where she primarily cares for patients recovering from stroke.

The nursing department of Shirley Ryan AbilityLab aims to deliver superior outcomes to more patients by extending our culture, innovation and talent – creating the nation’s premier system of care dedicated to maximizing human ability. Our strategic plan outlines the steps to plan for growth, clinical care, people, research, data analytics and education over the next five years