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Special Symposium

(602699) SPECIAL SYMPOSIUM: 3^rdACRM Women in Rehabilitation Science Symposium

Moderator(s)

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  Mark Hirsch, PhD

  Senior Scientist
  Carolinas Rehabilitation, Carolinas Medical Center, Atrium Health
  Charlotte, North Carolina

Presenter(s)

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  Lisa Barnes, PhD

  Professor in the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center
  Rush University Medical Center
  Chicago, Illinois
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  Sue Ann Sisto, PT, MA, PhD, FACRM

  Professor and Chair
  University of Buffalo, State University of New York
  Buffalo, New York

Non-presenting Author(s)

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  Patricia Heyn, PhD, FGSA, FACRM

  Associate Professor
  University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
  Aurora, Colorado
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  Alison Cogan, PhD, OTR/L

  Polytrauma/TBI Advanced Fellow
  Washington DC VA Medical Center
  Alexandria, Virginia
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  Michele York, PhD, ABPP-CN

  Associate Professor; Section Head, Neuropsychology
  Baylor College of Medicine
  Houston, Texas
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  Deborah Backus, PT, PhD, FACRM

  Director MS Research
  Shepherd Center
  Atlanta, Georgia

The central role of this special symposium is to assist the ACRM to fulfill its vision of equality for women in rehabilitation science by exposing its membership to successful female scientist role models, recognized and respected for their unique contributions to the field of rehabilitation science. The presenters chosen for this years’ special symposium, Dr. Lisa Barnes, and Dr. Sue Ann Sisto, have been successful in rehabilitation research and scholarship in their own right. They have distinguished themselves though their scholarship, career leadership and research in the field of rehabilitation psychology, medicine, geriatrics, neurology, physical therapy and at the NIH.

Learning Objectives:

• To share details about women leaders’ ongoing and past biomedical rehabilitation research and scholarship.
• To discuss the various paths women leaders have taken to become accomplished in their research and scholarship.
• To raise awareness among ACRM communities for the importance of providing direct support to diverse and traditionally underrepresented/minority groups for success within the ACRM and in the rehabilitation field