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Kessler Foundation - Changing the lives of people with disabilities through research in stroke, brain injury, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury and by funding innovative programs that promote employment for people with disabilities. Podcasts are from various consumer and professional lectures presented by our researchers and guest lecturers.

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2019 Kessler Institute Stroke Conf - Part 4 of 8 - Working SMARTAAR to Achieve Functional Outcomes 03.12.2019 33:02

Welcome to the 8th Annual Stroke Conference sponsored by Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation This conference “Breaking Barriers: There's More to Getting Home than Walking” In this lecture podcast, Gretchen March of Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation presents “Working SMARTAAR to Achieve Functional Outcomes: Using ICF Framework for Goal Writing and Treatment Planning“. View the transcript at htt...

2019 Kessler Institute Stroke Conf-Part 3 of 8 - Health Behavior Change for Individuals Post-Stroke 29.11.2019 42:51

Welcome to the 8th Annual Stroke Conference sponsored by Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation This conference “Breaking Barriers: There's More to Getting Home than Walking” In this podcast, Arielle Resnick of Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation presented “The Heart of the Matter: Cardiovascular Fitness and Health Behavior Change for Individuals Post-Stroke“. View the transcript at https://kessler...

2019 Kessler Institute Stroke Conf - Part 2 of 8 - Ready for Rehab? 26.11.2019 30:19

Welcome to the 8th Annual Stroke Conference sponsored by Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation This conference “Breaking Barriers: There's More to Getting Home than Walking” In this podcast, Gretchen March of Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation presented “Ready for Rehab? Using Transtheoretical Model Concepts to Optimize Outcomes“ View the podcast transcript at https://kesslerfoundation.org/sites/...

2019 Kessler Institute Stroke Conf - Part 1 of 8 - There's No Place Like Home 22.11.2019 37:53

Welcome to the 8th Annual Stroke Conference sponsored by Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation This conference “Breaking Barriers: There's More to Getting Home than Walking” In this podcast Dr. Uri Adler of Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation provided the welcome and his presentation “There's No Place Like Home”. View the transcript at https://kesslerfoundation.org/sites/default/files/2019-11/2019...

Helen Genova on Cognitive Issues in the Brain 12.11.2019 44:56

Helen M. Genova, Ph. D. is the assistant director of Kessler Foundation's Center for Neuropsychology and Neuroscience Research. She is also an assistant research professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Rutgers University-NJ Medical School. She has focused on examining cognitive issues in clinical populations, including those utilizing both behavioral and neuroimaging...

Best of Both Worlds: Partnerships Between VA SCI and SCI Model Systems Centers 01.11.2019 41:28

Best of Both Worlds: Establishing Fruitful Partnerships Between VA SCI Centers and SCI Model Systems Centers Welcome to this 2019 Kessler Foundation Spinal Cord Injury Grand Rounds podcast featuring Dr. Denise Fyffe, senior research scientist of Kessler Foundation, Dr. Carol Gibson-Gill, Chief of Spinal Cord Injury/Disorders Service and Director of the ALS Program at the Veterans Affairs New Jerse...

Elaine Katz on Grantmaking – Expert Interview Series 29.10.2019 31:15

Elaine E. Katz, MS, CCC-SLP is senior vice president of Grants and Communications. During her tenure, the Foundation has awarded more than $43.8 million in grant support for national and community-based employment programs. She gives some tips for applying for grants in this episode. View the podcast transcript at https://kesslerfoundation.org/sites/default/files/2019-10/Elaine%20Katz%20on%20Grant...

Guang Yue on Rehabilitation Engineering – Expert Interview Series 22.10.2019 57:12

Dr. Guang Yue is the director of Center for Mobility and Rehabilitation Engineering Research at Kessler Foundation. He is also a professor at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and affiliated faculty in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Dr. Yue received his PhD in motor control/sensorimotor neuroscience from the University of Iowa and had his postdoctor...

Cancer-Related Fatigue Part 5 of 5: A Research Perspective 08.10.2019 32:33

Welcome to the Third Annual Cancer Conference - Beyond Rest: A Rehabilitative Approach to Managing Cancer-Related Fatigue sponsored by Kessler Institute Rehabilitation and Kessler Foundation. In this lecture podcast Didier Allexandre, PhD, Research Scientist at Kessler Foundation presents “Cancer-Related Fatigue - A Research Prospective”. View the transcript at https://kesslerfoundation.org/sites/...

Cancer-Related Fatigue Part 4 of 5: Psychosocial Interventions 04.10.2019 26:04

Welcome to the Third Annual Cancer Conference - Beyond Rest: A Rehabilitative Approach to Managing Cancer-Related Fatigue sponsored by Kessler Institute Rehabilitation and Kessler Foundation. In this lecture podcast Brooke Laster, oncology social worker from Valley Hospital presents “Psychosocial Interventions for Cancer-Related Fatigue”. View the transcript at https://kesslerfoundation.org/sites/...

TBI Research Update-Part 6 of 6 27.09.2019 31:22

Welcome to the Northern New Jersey Traumatic Brain Injury System Consumer Conference for Persons with Brain Injury “Moving Forward: Improving Emotional, Physical, and Cognitive Health after Brain Injury.” A Research Update was presented by Dr. Nancy Chiaravalloti, Traumatic Brain Injury Research Director at Kessler Foundation For more information about Dr. Chiaravalloti, read her bio in the progra...

Mike-at-the-Mike - “Relationships and TBI” Part 4 of 6 27.09.2019 27:19

Welcome to the Northern New Jersey Traumatic Brain Injury System Consumer Conference for Persons with Brain Injury “Moving Forward: Improving Emotional, Physical, and Cognitive Health after Brain Injury.” A Panel Presentation: Mike-at-the-Mike - “Relationships and TBI”, this panel was moderated by Michael Greenwald from the Council for the Head Injured Community. This one-day conference provided i...

The Door: A Meditative and Experiential Journey - Part 3 of 6 27.09.2019 26:06

Welcome to the Northern New Jersey Traumatic Brain Injury System Consumer Conference for Persons with Brain Injury “Moving Forward: Improving Emotional, Physical, and Cognitive Health after Brain Injury.” In this Interactive Demo Christina Rasmussen presents “The Door: A Meditative and Experiential Journey” For more information about Christina Rasmussen, read her bio in the program notes. This one...

Exercise after TBI - Part 5 of 6 27.09.2019 25:56

Welcome to the Northern New Jersey Traumatic Brain Injury System Consumer Conference for Persons with Brain Injury “Moving Forward: Improving Emotional, Physical, and Cognitive Health after Brain Injury.” Guest Speaker Dr. Irene Ward presents “Exercise after TBI” This one-day conference provided individuals with brain injury, their caregivers, family and friends, and healthcare professionals with...

Cognitive Rehabilitation and TBI - Part 2 of 6 27.09.2019 1:01:04

Welcome to the Northern New Jersey Traumatic Brain Injury System Consumer Conference for Persons with Brain Injury “Moving Forward: Improving Emotional, Physical, and Cognitive Health after Brain Injury.” In this lecture podcast, Drs. John DeLuca, Sr. Vice President for Research and Erica Weber, Research Scientist both from Kessler Foundation present “Cognitive Rehabilitation and TBI" This one-day...

The True Cost of Invisible Losses - Part 1 of 6 27.09.2019 38:28

Welcome to the Northern New Jersey Traumatic Brain Injury System Consumer Conference for Persons with Brain Injury “Moving Forward: Improving Emotional, Physical, and Cognitive Health after Brain Injury.” In this podcast Dr. Nancy Chiaravalloti, director of the Northern New Jersey Traumatic Brain Injury System provided the welcome and opening remarks followed by Keynote speaker Christina Rasmussen...

Cancer-Related Fatigue Part 3 of 5: Rehabilitation to Manage Fatigue 27.09.2019 48:20

Welcome to the Third Annual Cancer Conference - Beyond Rest: A Rehabilitative Approach to Managing Cancer-Related Fatigue sponsored by Kessler Institute Rehabilitation and Kessler Foundation. In this lecture podcast Tiffany Kendig, physical therapist, Kelly Walloga, Senior Occupational Therapist, and Sara Ilenko, Senior Speech-Language Pathologist, all from Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation pre...

Trevor Dyson-Hudson on Spinal Cord Injury – Expert Interview Series 24.09.2019 1:24:05

Trevor Dyson-Hudson, MD is director of the Centers for Spinal Cord Injury Research and Outcomes & Assessment Research at Kessler Foundation. He is a research associate professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark, NJ. Dr. Dyson-Hudson is co-director of the Northern New Jersey Spinal Cord Injury System at Kessler—a NIDILRR funded...

Cancer-Related Fatigue Part 2 of 5: Screening 20.09.2019 32:45

Welcome to the Third Annual Cancer Conference - Beyond Rest: A Rehabilitative Approach to Managing Cancer-Related Fatigue sponsored by Kessler Institute Rehabilitation and Kessler Foundation. In this session, nurse clinician Linda Schmidt from the John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center presented “Screening for Cancer-Related Fatigue”. View the transcript at https://kess...

John O’Neill on Employing People with Disabilities-Expert-Interview-Series 17.09.2019 1:10:06

John O'Neill, PhD is the director of employment and disability research at the Kessler Foundation and has over 28 years of experience in vocational rehabilitation as a rehabilitation counselor educator, disability employment researcher, and advisor to state vocational rehabilitation agencies. Dr. O’Neill has been a PI or co-PI on six National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabi...

Cancer-Related Fatigue Part 1 of 5: Overview of a Common Complaint 13.09.2019 32:50

Welcome to the Third Annual Cancer Conference - Beyond Rest: A Rehabilitative Approach to Managing Cancer-Related Fatigue sponsored by Kessler Institute Rehabilitation and Kessler Foundation. Welcome and case study presented by Michael Stubblefield, MD (https://www.kessler-rehab.com/patient-center/staff/DoctorDetails.aspx? ID=65) followed by Ashish Khanna, MD on “Cancer-related Fatigue: A brief Ov...

Glenn Wylie on Fatigue - Expert Interview Series 10.09.2019 52:03

Glenn Wylie is the director of the Rocco Ortenzio Neuroimaging Center at Kessler Foundation. He is also an associate professor at Rutgers - New Jersey Medical School. Dr. Wylie's research interests fall into three broad categories: cognitive control, cognitive fatigue, and the neurophysiological effects of cognitive interventions. In his work investigating cognitive control, he has investigated co...

Peggy Chen on Stroke and Spatial Neglect - Expert Interview Series 03.09.2019 1:19:38

Peii (Peggy) Chen, PhD, is a senior research scientist in the Center for Stroke Rehabilitation Research and the intellectual property liaison at Kessler Foundation and a research associate professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University. Trained as an experimental cognitive psychologist, Dr. Chen started out her postdoctoral career in 2007 and bec...

Emergency Preparedness for People with Spinal Cord Injury 22.08.2019 20:40

“The likelihood that you and your family will recover from and emergency tomorrow depends on the planning and preparation done today“ In this Spinal Cord Injury Grand Rounds podcast, Robin Bischoff, Nurse Manager of the Spinal Cord Injury Unit at Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation presented “UH-OH, The Sky is Falling: Emergency Preparedness for People with Spinal Cord Injury” This presentation w...

Nancy Chiaravalloti on Improving Memory – Expert Interview Series 20.08.2019 1:02:57

Nancy D. Chiaravalloti, PhD is director of the Center for Neuropsychology and Neuroscience Research and the Center for Traumatic Brain Injury Research at Kessler Foundation and Research Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Rutgers University, New Jersey Medical School. Dr. Chiaravalloti conducts research in cognitive rehabilitation, particularly in new learning, memory and processi...