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

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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”

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Amy Acton, RN

CEO, Phoenix Society for Burn Survivors

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Anja Korovesis Herrman

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

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Vincenzo Piscopo

President & CEO, United Spinal Association

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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

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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”

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Benjamin Abramoff, MD, MS

Director of Post-COVID Assessment and Recovery Clinic, Penn Medicine

“The Role of Rehabilitation in the Management of Long COVID”

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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

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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”

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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”