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Senior Research Scientist
Kessler Foundation
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
I am a Senior Research Scientist in the Center for Spinal Cord Research and Director of Health Equity in Disability and Outcomes Research at Kessler Foundation. Over the past 6 years, I have lead and collaborated on several Department of Defense, Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program, Spinal Cord Injury Research Program (SCIRP) using mixed-methods approaches to examine socioeconomic issues related to clinical outcomes (PI: Fyffe), the use of clinical video technology in the use of healthcare (PI: Gibson-Gill) and striving to work among Veterans living with an SCI (PI: O’Neill). As a co-investigator in the Spinal Cord Injury Model System (SCIMS) at Kessler, I have facilitated focus groups, semi-structured and cognitive interviews with SCI patients, caregivers and clinicians in the development of SCI-specific quality of life measures as well as cognitive interviews with diverse populations. In addition, I have published several peer-reviewed publications from these projects. As a co-investigator on the proposed project, I will lead the implementation of the qualitative research data collection and analysis, and findings are disseminated to stakeholders.
