Medical Rehabilitation Conference Set for July 17-18

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A conference on interpreting and understanding the results of medical rehabilitation and its cost effectiveness will be held July 17-18 in the Sheraton Inn Buffalo Airport, 2040 Walden Ave., Cheektowaga.

The conference will be sponsored by the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

Featured speakers will include rehabilitation-medicine specialists from centers across the U.S. and from the UB Center for Functional Assessment Research and its affiliate, the Uniform Data System for Medical Rehabilitation (UDSmr), which are international leaders in the field.

The registration fee for the two-day conference, aimed at rehabilitation professionals and physiatrists, is $425.

Carl V. Granger, M.D., director of the Center for Functional Assessment Research and UDSmr, will chair the conference and be a featured speaker. Among those also making presentations will be:

• Helena Valvanne-Tommila, senior advisor, Association of Finnish Local and Regional Authorities, Helsinki, Finland

• Margaret G. Stineman, M.D., associate professor of rehabilitation medicine, University of Pennsylvania

• Reg L. Warren, Ph.D., vice president of outcomes research, Nova Care, Inc., of Hingham, Maine

UB presenters, in addition to Granger, will include Richard Linn, Ph.D., assistant professor of rehabilitation medicine; Deborah K. Walters, Ph.D., associate professor of computer science; James Philips, CEO of UDSmr; Richard K. Orhrbach, Ph.D., assistant professor of oral diagnostic sciences; Anne Deutsch, research analyst for UDSmr, and Samuel J. Markello, Ph.D., director of analytical services and outcomes assessment, UDSmr.

For further information on the conference, call the Center for Functional Assessment Research at 829-2076.