
Day 1: June 13, 2023 | 11:30 AM – 4:15 PM ET
PANEL: Lived Experience of Persons with Complex Chronic
Conditions | 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM ET

Anjali Forber-Pratt, PhD
Director, National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research
Panel Moderator
Opening Remarks “Living with Complexity: My Story & Rehabilitation Research Needs”

Amy Acton, RN
CEO, Phoenix Society for Burn Survivors

Anja Korovesis Herrman
Researcher, Behavioral Health Stratified Treatment (BEST) Project, University of Illinois at Chicago

Vincenzo Piscopo
President & CEO, United Spinal Association

Jordyn Zimmerman, MEd
Board Chair, CommunicationFIRST
SESSION: DELIVERY SYSTEM DESIGN | 1:15 – 2:15 PM ET

Tamra Keeney, DPT, PhD – Moderator
Physical Therapist and Research Scientist, Massachusetts General Hospital
Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Wouter De Groote, PRM
Technical Advisor, WHO Rehabilitation Programme
“WHO’s Efforts to Advance the Delivery of Rehabilitation Services to Persons with Chronic Conditions”

Lucy Savitz, PhD, MBA
Senior Advisor, UPMC Health Plan Center for Health-Value Health Care
Professor, Health Policy and Management
Director External Affairs, University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health
“Emerging Models of Care for People with Multiple Chronic Conditions”
Session: Management of complex Chronic Conditions | 2:30 – 4:15 PM ET

Mary Slavin, PT, PhD – Moderator
LeaRRn Co-Director, Dissemination Core
Director of Dissemination, Rehabilitation Outcomes Center, Spaulding Rehabilitation Network
Research Assistant Professor, Boston University

Flora Hammond, MD
Chief of Medical Affairs, Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana
Nila Covalt Professor and Chair, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Indiana University School of Medicine
“Managing Care for Traumatic Injuries as Chronic Conditions”

Benjamin Abramoff, MD, MS
Director of Post-COVID Assessment and Recovery Clinic, Penn Medicine
“The Role of Rehabilitation in the Management of Long COVID”

Kathleen McKee, MD, MPH
Director, Intermountain Movement Disorders Center
Assistant Professor, Neurology
Associate Medical Director, Neurosciences Research
“Parkinson’s Elevated: Implementing Exercise as Medicine for Persons with Parkinson’s in a Value-Based Healthcare Model“

Christine Matthews, CScD, CCC-SLP, BCS-S
Service Chief, Audiology and Speech Pathology Program, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System
Adjunct Faculty, Department of Communication Science and Disorders, University of Pittsburgh
“Aphasia Care Across the ICF (International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health): Experience from VA Pittsburgh PIRATE”

Will Hula, PhD, CCC-SLP
Research Speech Pathologist, Audiology and Speech Pathology and Geriatric Research, Clinical Center, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System
Adjunct Faculty, Department of Communication Science amd Disorders, University of Pittsburgh
“Aphasia Care Across the ICF (International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health): Experience from VA Pittsburgh PIRATE”