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Assistant Professor / Scientist
Baylor College of Medicine / TIRR Memorial Hermann
Houston, Texas, United States
Susan Robinson-Whelen, Ph.D. holds appointments as Scientist at the Spinal Cord Injury and Disability Research Center (SCIDR) at TIRR Memorial Hermann, Senior Investigator at the Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) Center for Research on Women with Disabilities (CROWD), and Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) at BCM. She also holds an appointment as an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of PM&R at the University of Texas at Houston Health Science Center. Her research focuses on the health and well-being of people with disabilities, particularly women with physical disabilities. She has served as PI or Co-I on over 20 federally funded studies including numerous studies that have developed and tested the efficacy of interventions designed to address the unique needs of people with disabilities, including interventions focused on health promotion, weight management, safety awareness and abuse prevention, depression self-management, stress self-management, and self-esteem enhancement for women with disabilities. She has most recently completed a randomized controlled trial testing a psychological health promotion program for women with SCI offered in the virtual world of Second Life.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Thursday, November 10, 2022
3:15 PM – 3:31 PM
Thursday, November 10, 2022
3:55 PM – 4:11 PM
