Rehabilitation Science to Be Topic of UB Conference

By Lois Baker

Release Date: April 21, 1999 This content is archived.

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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The emerging field of rehabilitation science will be the subject of a one-day conference April 28 in the University Inn and Conference Center, 2401 North Forest Road, Getzville.

"Issues in Graduate Education and Research" will be the theme for the conference, sponsored by the University at Buffalo's doctoral program in rehabilitation science.

Presenters will include Kate Seelman, Ph.D., director of the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), and Marcus Fuhrer, Ph.D., former director of the National Center on Medical Rehabilitation Research of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and NIH extramural scientist emeritus.

The cost of the conference is $75, which includes lunch. The registration fee is waived for UB faculty, staff and students, who will be charged for lunch only. Reservations should be made through Shari Wilson at 829-3141.

Issues to be discussed will include curricula in existing graduate programs in rehabilitation science, current areas of research, areas where more study is needed and research methods appropriate to the field.

Seelman will present the opening address, "Rehabilitation Science and the NIDRR," at 9 a.m., following introductory remarks by William C. Mann, Ph.D., director of the UB doctoral program and chair of the Department of Occupational Therapy. Fuhrer will speak following Seelman's address.

The remaining schedule:

o 11 a.m. -- Alan Jette, Ph.D., Boston University, "Research Designs to Advance Rehabilitation Science"

o 11:30 a.m. -- Allen Heinemann, Ph.D., Northwestern University, "Measuring Rehabilitation Outcomes"

o 1-4:30 p.m. -- Descriptions of rehabilitation science doctoral programs by Carolyn Braun, Ph.D., Washington University; Ken Ottenbacher, Ph.D., University of Texas at Galveston; Rory Cooper, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh; Sharon Wood-Dauphine, Ph.D., McGill University; Kay Walker, Ph.D., University of Florida, and Mann from UB.

Posters sessions will be held at 10: 30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.