INside the OUTcomes: A Rehabilitation Research Podcast

On this episode of INside the OUTcomes: A Rehabilitation Research Podcast , we explore how inpatient rehabilitation length of stay can affect outcomes in people with spinal cord injury. Our guests are: Anne Deutsch, PhD, RN , a clinical research scientist in the Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab. She is a principal investigator on a new grant that looks at how...

On this episode  of INside the OUTcomes: A Rehabilitation Research Podcast , we will be talking about accessibility and public transportation around Chicago. Our guests are Jacqueline Kish, PhD, OTR/L, a postdoctoral fellow in CROR's Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Home and Community-Based Services at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, and Kira O’Bradovich, a disability and community adv...

On this episode  of 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. Our guests are Ka...

On this episode of INside the OUTcomes: A Rehabilitation Research Podcast , we speak with HCBS recipient Kenny and the CEO of his provider agency, Heather LaTorra at Marrakech , about how they partnered to make the necessary changes to Kenny’s services to meet his goals and preferences. Listen on  Spotify ,  Apple Podcasts  or  YouTube . This podcast is funded by the National Institute on Disabili...

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. Sara, Bridgette, and their team are...

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...

On this episode of INside the OUTcomes: A Rehabilitation Research Podcast, we talk with Dawn Skaggs director of emergency, disaster and climate resilience at the  World Institute on Disability . We'll learn about their global disaster response program, find out what can go wrong when people with disabilities aren't included in disaster planning, and hear about Dawn's 25 years of experi...

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, are developing an interactive decision guide designed to help peopl...

Robin Jones has served as Director of the Great Lakes ADA Center since its inception in 1991. It is part of the ADA National Network and provides information, materials, technical assistance and training on the Americans with Disabilities Act. On this episode of Inside the OUTcomes, we talk to Robin about the Great Lakes ADA Center, how the Covid-19 pandemic influenced the kinds of calls fielded b...

How did the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago become  Shirley Ryan AbilityLab  -- the first-ever translational research rehabilitation hospital where clinicians and researchers work together in the same space to drive innovation? On this episode we'll find out in our discussion with Rick Lieber, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer & Senior Vice President of Research and Miriam Rafferty, PT, DP...

What are home and community-based services and how do they -- or don't they -- meet the needs of recipients? On this episode of INside the OUTcomes: A Rehabilitation Research Podcast, we hear from Teresa Nguyen , Director of the Community Living Equity Center in the Lurie Institute for Disability Policy and Natalie Chong , a doctoral student at the Heller School for Social Policy and Managemen...

On this episode of  INside the OUTcomes: A Rehabilitation Research Podcast  we discuss a phone-based intervention for self-managing pain at work  that is part of a clinical trial through the Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab. Our guests are the project’s lead investigator, Dawn Ehde, PhD , a psychologist and Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine in the Division of Clinic...

The Rehabilitation Measures Database (RMD) is a free, online resource managed by the Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab. With more than 500 measures supported by some of the world's best doctors, therapists, researchers, and educators, the RMD is the go-to resource for measuring benchmarks and outcomes in physical medicine and rehabilitation. The database is...

On our second episode, we talk about a really tricky subject: employment and Parkinson's disease. What are the unique challenges people with PD face when it comes to employment, thinking about asking for an accommodation, or even disclosing their health condition at work?   We talk with  Miriam Rafferty , PT, DPT, PhD, a scientist in the Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research and Assistan...

Let's get oriented. In our first episode, we'll talk with  Allen Heinemann, PhD , Director of the Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research (CROR) about the different research projects currently underway at CROR, how CROR fits into the translational research model at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, the Rehabilitation Measures Database and what you can expect to hear about in upcoming episodes....