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Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Michigan
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
As an occupational therapist in inpatient rehabilitation, Alexandra witnessed substantial variations in patient outcomes, indicating poor quality of care. She learned first-hand that the quality of care a person receives might be related to who they are, the therapists who provide care and where care is received. Given that there is a body of evidence in rehabilitation regarding evidence-based practice, she started to question (1) why, as a collective group of rehabilitation providers, clinicians are inconsistent in delivering best practice and (2) how clinicians can address these inconsistencies to improve patient outcomes. Her work, grounded in health services research, implementation science, and rehabilitation science, aims to optimize the quality of post-acute rehabilitation, particularly for individuals with spinal cord injury, by facilitating the development and implementation of stakeholder-engaged research interventions and clinical quality improvement initiatives that promote the consistent delivery of evidence-based practice.
