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Emily Dinelli: Combining Clinical Work and Research to Help People Who Use Prosthetic Devices
Dinelli, 27, is currently taking classes while working part-time at a private Chicago orthotics and prosthetics clinic while also doing research for a CROR study on employment for people with physical disabilities.
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CROR Research Scientist Alex Wong, PhD, DPhil, OT, CRC is new Chair of ACRM Measurement Interdisciplinary Special Interest Group
CROR Research Scientist Alex Wong, PhD, DPhil, OT, CRC is new Chair of ACRM Measurement Interdisciplinary Special Interest Group.
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CROR Director Allen Heinemann, PhD, spoke on employment and people with disabilities at Social Security Advisory Board forum
Allen Heinemann, PhD, director, Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research (CROR) at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, participated in a Social Security Advisory Board (SSAB) forum on “The Future of Mortality, Disability, and Work: Helping to Inform the Social Security Trust Fund Projections."
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CROR at the 2023 HCBS Conference
Members of the Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research RRTC on Home and Community-Based Services were at the 2023 HCBS Conference in Baltimore.
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CROR presents poster at the 2024 Rehabilitation Psychology Mid-Year Conference
Nicole Sharf, a clinical psychology graduate student at The Chicago School working with the Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research, presented a poster summarizing the results of focus groups she conducted to learn more about the psychological and sexual well-being of adults with SCI at the 2024 Rehabilitation Psychology Mid-Year Conference in Austin, TX.
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Getting out of the house and managing feelings of worthlessness may ease perceived social isolation among people with a history of stroke
Feelings of worthlessness after a stroke are predictive of present and future perceived social isolation, and leaving the house helps alleviate perceived social isolation and negative emotions. The results are published in the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
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Episode 10: The Midwest Regional Spinal Cord Injury Care System at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
On this episode of INside the OUTcomes: A Rehabilitation Research Podcast, we talk with David Chen, MD, the George M. Eisenberg, Chair of spinal cord injury rehabilitation at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, about the Midwest Regional Spinal Cord Injury Care System, the National Spinal Cord Injury Model Systems Database and cutting-edge research into biomarkers that may predict functional recovery after spinal cord injury.
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Episode 11: Developing and Testing Person-Centered HCBS Outcome Measures
On this episode of INside the OUTcomes: A Rehabilitation Research Podcast, our guests are Bridgette Schram, PhD, project manager on the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Home and Community-Based Services at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, and Sara Karon, PhD, co-principal investigator on the project and a senior health policy analyst at RTI International.
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Episode 14: Transportation Accessibility in the Windy City
On this episode of INside the OUTcomes: A Rehabilitation Research Podcast, we will be talking about accessibility and public transportation.
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Episode 13: Spinal Cord Injury and Mental Health
On this episodeof INside the OUTcomes: A Rehabilitation Research Podcast, we'll learn about some common mental health challenges that people face after spinal cord injury, and about a Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research project funded by the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation that seeks to better understand and support the mental health of people with spinal cord injury.
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Episode 08: A Decision Aid for Requesting an Accommodation at Work
On this episode of INside the OUTcomes: A Rehabilitation Resaerch Podcast, we speak with Mark Harniss, PhD, Associate Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine and Director of the UW Disability Studies Program at the University of Washington, Seattle, and Heather Evans, PhD, Acting Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Washington, Seattle and Director of Research for the Northwest ADA Center.
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Episode 12: Kenny's World: Person-Centered Planning in Practice
On this episode of INside the OUTcomes: A Rehabilitation Research Podcast, we speak with Kenny, a home and community-based services recipient, and Heather LaTorra, CEO of Kenny's provider agency, Marrakech, about how they partnered to make the necessary changes to Kenny’s services to meet his goals.
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