Mary D. Slavin, PT, PhD is the Director of Education and Dissemination at the Health Outcomes Unit located at the Boston University School of Public Health. Over the last 20 years, Dr. Slavin’s primary research has focused on developing and implementing rehabilitation outcome measures. She has been involved in efforts to develop, test and disseminate the following state-of-the-art measures: Activity Measure for Post-Acute Care (AM-PAC), Spinal Cord Injury Functional Index (SCI-FI), Pediatric Spinal Cord Injury Activity Measures (PEDI-SCI AM) and Measure of Participation (Pedi-SCI PMoP), Cerebral Palsy Profile (CP- PRO), and the Life Impact Burn Injury Recovery Evaluation (LIBRE) Profile.

Dr. Slavin has led training and dissemination efforts for the following national centers: Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Measuring Rehabilitation Outcomes (National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, 2000-2004), Boston Contemporary Rehabilitation Outcome Network (NIH-NCMRR, 2010-2014), Center for Enhancing Activity and Participation among Persons with Arthritis (National Institutes on Disability Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research, NIDILRR, 2010-2014), Burn Injury Participation Disability Rehabilitation Research Project (NIDILLR, 2013- 2017), Boston-Harvard Burn Injury Model System Program (NIDILLR, 2017-2021). For each Center, she developed and implemented successful dissemination and training activities. Dr. Slavin has also been involved in efforts to improve rehabilitation service delivery and has collaborated with the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) to offer the Transforming Outcomes Data into Management Information conference, which has been offered twice yearly for 20 years.