Fall 2024

After experiencing a stroke that impacted her memory and ability to keep pace at work, Sabrina sought vocational rehabilitation services at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab.

The American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM) has announced that Allen Heinemann, PhD, director, CROR, will receive the 2024 ACRM Gold Key Award -- its highest honor for lifetime achievement.

CROR research assistant Lorie Cashdollar, inspired by her mother's rehabilitation experience and her own passion for sports, plans to pursue a PhD in neuroscience research to help athletes recover from injuries.

Laura Wilhelm, executive director of Disability:IN Chicagoland, leverages her legal and social work background to help businesses integrate disability inclusion into their corporate practices.

Rehabilitation Measures Database Update

The Rehabilitation Measures Database (RMD) now has 574 summarized rehabilitation measures, 41 of which are related to employment.

Six measurement tools will be submitted shortly to the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: The 6 Minute Walk Test; the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure; the Contextual Memory Test; the Lower Extremity Functional Scale; the Modified Ashworth Scale and the Quick Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand.

A medical extern has been working with the RMD team this summer. Damyan Farion is a student at Midwestern University in Arizona. He has been writing a new summary of the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Patient Assessment Instrument (IRF-PAI) Section GG on self-care and mobility. He will be submitting a measurement tool on the IRF-PAI to Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 

INside the OUTcomes: A Rehabilitation Research Podcast is now on YouTube!

Our latest episode includes an interview with Mike Whelan, a member of the Advisory Committee for CROR's NIDILRR-funded International Exploration of Rehabilitation Length of Stay Following Spinal Cord Injury grant. Mike shares his own experience with inpatient rehabilitation following an SCI.

You can also listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.  

CROR healthcare communications associate Sharon Parmet will present at the 2024 Virtual Knowledge Translation Conference on Tuesday, Oct. 15. She will share insights about how she produces INside the OUTcomes: A Rehabilitation Research Podcast, Don't miss it! Register now to attend.

The contents of this newsletter were developed under a grant from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR grant 90RTEM0001). NIDILRR is a Center within the Administration for Community Living (ACL) in the Department of Health and Human Services (DHSS). The contents of this newsletter do not necessarily represent the policy of NIDILRR, ACL or DHSS.