Section 3: Appendices
Appendix A: Agenda
Appendix B: Panel Member Biographical Information
Appendix C: Noteworthy Grantee Accomplishments Selected by the Panel
Appendix D: Evaluation Results for 2006 Health and Function APAER
Appendix E: Results of Accomplishments Ratings
Appendix A: Agenda
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
| 8:00 – 8:30 | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:30 – 9:00 | Welcome: Steven Tingus, NIDRR Director Overview of Panel Process: Kelly E. King, M.D., NIDRR Deputy Director |
| 9:00 – 9:30 | Overview of NIDRR health and function domain Ruth Brannon, Acting Director, Research Sciences Division Questions from Panel |
| 9:30 – 10:30 | Panel Discussion of Relevance Questions from Template |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Break |
| 10:45 – 12:00 | Panel Discussion of Quality of Peer Review Questions from Template |
| 12:00 – 1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00 – 2:30 | Panel Discussion of Resulting Portfolio of Awards Questions from Template |
| 2:30 – 2:45 | Break |
| 2:45 – 4:00 | Panel Discussion of Performance Questions from Template |
| 4:00 – 4:30 | Review of today's session and plan for tomorrow. |
Thursday, October 19, 2006
| 8:00 – 8:30 | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:30 – 10:00 | Continue discussion of Performance Questions from Template |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Break |
| 10:15 – 12:00 | Finalize Suggestions |
| 12:00 – 1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00 – 3:00 | Discussion of findings with NIDRR staff |
Appendix B: Panel Member Biographical Information
Daofen Chen, Ph.D., is a Program Director of Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). He is responsible for identifying research issues and administering a grant portfolio related to sensorimotor functions and integration, focusing especially on basic and clinical sciences of sensorimotor control, neurorehabilitation, and related neurotechnologies. Dr. Chen began his graduate training in neurophysiology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and studied subsequently at University of Fribourg as an International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) research fellow. He received his Ph.D. in Physiology and Biophysics at University of Washington, and then spent four years as an NIH NRSA postdoctoral fellow at the Northwestern University Medical School and the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. He also completed his clinical training in physical therapy, movement/rehabilitation science there. Prior to joining NINDS, Dr. Chen served on the faculty at the University of Kansas Medical Center, where much of his research has been focused on the cortical and spinal mechanisms of motor control and neural circuit plasticity. He also taught graduate courses on basic and clinical neuroscience, and research designs and methodology.
Pamela W. Duncan, Ph.D. (Panel Chairperson), a nationally and internationally renowned physical therapist and epidemiologist, is considered one of the world's leading experts and consultants in the selection of outcome measures for stroke clinical trials. A recognized leader and innovator in stroke rehabilitation, she has dedicated her career to elevating the science of rehabilitation, improving the physical function of the elderly, and enhancing stroke rehabilitation and outcomes. Dr. Duncan's extensive contributions to the field of rehabilitation have been supported by almost two decades of continuous research funding from such entities as the National Institute on Aging (NIA), the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research (NCMRR), the American Heart Association (AHA), the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development (HSR&D), Rehabilitation Research and Development (RR&D), and the pharmaceutical industry. Her experience in leading interdisciplinary research programs and building teams of medical doctors, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists, epidemiologists, and biostatisticians to create a “community” of scientists has resulted in some of the most cited work in rehabilitation. She is a past recipient of the American Physical Therapy Association “Mary McMillan Award,” and the National Rehabilitation Hospital "John W. Goldschmidt Award for Excellence in Rehabilitation." Under her leadership as Co-Principal Investigator of the Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Center Grant, the Pepper Center produced a completed randomized clinical trial of therapeutic interventions to improve motor recovery, and Center investigators published more than 100 journal articles. Her work on the Pepper Center project also led to the creation of the Stroke Impact Scale (SIS), which is now used in multiple National Institutes of Health (NIH) and pharmaceutical trials and has been translated into over 20 languages. In addition, Dr. Duncan was instrumental in the development of the Department of Veterans Affairs/Department of Defense Clinical Practice Guidelines for stroke rehabilitation and has been a leading force in the implementation of evidence-based practice within the VA. Dr. Duncan's current research focus is on the development of a trajectory of recovery for stroke and the effect of delivery of care, interventions, and measurement on stroke recovery. Her most recently funded project, “Locomotor Experience Applied Post-Stroke (LEAPS),” will investigate the effectiveness of locomotor training (body weight-supported treadmill training) as a rehabilitation modality. The objective of this National Institutes of Health (NIH) project is to measure the effect of intervention timing post-stroke, duration of treatment, and stroke severity on walking recovery. In addition to her role as a Health Services Researcher, Dr. Duncan is the Co-Director of the University of Florida Institute on Aging, and a Professor in the University of Florida, College of Medicine, Department of Aging and Geriatrics Research. Dr. Duncan also holds an appointment with the Department of Veterans Affairs, where she is a Research Career Scientist, the Director of the VA Rehabilitation Outcomes Research Center of Excellence, and the Research Coordinator for the VA Stroke QUERI Center. She is actively involved in multiple career development programs and mentors several junior faculty as well as pre-doctoral and post-doctoral trainees.
William Frey, Ph.D., has more than 30 years of experience in research, evaluation, and measurement, focusing primarily on programs and services for people with disabilities. He is principal investigator on a number of projects involving measurement, evaluation of programs and services, and national surveys. Dr. Frey is currently Co-Principal Investigator of the Mental Health Treatment Study, a national randomized trial of 3,000 SSDI beneficiaries with Schizophrenia or Affective Disorder to determine the effectiveness of providing high quality medical treatment and supported employment services in reducing disincentives to work. He is also Principal Investigator of an evaluation of disability employment policy demonstration programs, funded by the Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP), Department of Labor. Dr. Frey is also the Principal Investigator of a 5-year evaluation of states' monitoring and improvement practices under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Dr. Frey currently serves on several scientific committees and panels, including the Scientific Advisory Committee for Health Care Delivery and Policy Research (National Multiple Sclerosis Society); Scientific Advisory Panel for the National Pain Survey (American Pain Foundation); Scientific Committee on the Epidemiology of Pain and Development of a Chronic Pain Screening Tool (Pfizer, Inc.); and Peer Reviewer for the National Institute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research.
William Heetderks, M.D., Ph.D., is the Director of Extramural Science Programs at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), NIH. Before joining NIBIB he was at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). At the NINDS he worked on and later led the Neural Prosthesis Program and was the scientific team leader for the Repair and Plasticity Cluster. He received undergraduate and masters degrees in Electrical Engineering and received the Ph.D. degree in Bioengineering all from The University of Michigan. He then joined the faculty in Electrical Engineering at Cornell University working in the areas of neural coding of information and digital signal processing. He received the M.D. degree from the University of Miami and is certified in Internal Medicine. He has received several awards, including the NINDS Merit Award, the NIH Directors Award, The University of Michigan Distinguished Alumni Award in Bioengineering, and the Alfred Mann Foundation Award for Scientific Achievement. The mission of the NIBIB is to improve human health by leading the development and accelerating the application of biomedical technologies. The extramural program supports approximately 800 research and training grants at universities and research centers throughout the United States.
Michael Lee, M.D., is Professor and Chair of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also is the program director of the fully accredited residency program in physical medicine and rehabilitation and is the medical director of rehabilitation center at the University of North Carolina Hospitals. Dr. Lee serves as the Chair of the chair's council for Association of Academic Physiatrists and has served on the Board of Directors for the American Spinal Injury Association and the Commission of Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities. Dr. Lee received the M.D. degree from the University of Illinois, M.H.A. degree from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and completed his residency program at Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Northwestern University. Dr. Lee's clinical research interests include prevention and management of secondary conditions of spinal cord injury and has been funded by CDC, NIH and private foundations.
Michael W. O'Dell, M.D., is Acting Chief and site director of the New York Weill Cornell Department of Rehabilitation Medicine and Professor of Clinical Rehabilitation Medicine at Weill Medical College. Dr. O'Dell served on the faculty of both the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and Long Island Jewish Medical Center before arriving at Weill Cornell in July 2001. He has published well over 100 scientific articles, abstracts, books and book chapters and serves on the Editorial Boards of the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation.
Paul F. Pasquina, M.D., is a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army Medical Corps. He is the Chairman of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and the Medical Director of the Amputee Program at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Dr. Pasquina is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. In addition to being board certified in Physical Medicine Rehabilitation, he is also board certified in electrodiagnostic medicine and pain medicine. He completed a fellowship in sports medicine and remains interested in all aspects of musculoskeletal medicine, especially as it applies to individuals with disability. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development and was recently elected as a Fellow in the American Institute for Medical Biomedical Engineering (AIMBE) as well as a Secretarial appointee on the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Advisory Committee for Prosthetics and Special Disabilities Programs. Dr. Pasquina has authored multiple book chapters, journal articles, and policy papers. He has served as the PM&R Residency Program Director and Medical Advisor to the North Atlantic Regional Medical Command for quality healthcare, and continues to serve as a consultant to the Food and Drug Administration's Orphan Drug Program. He has received multiple military awards, as well as awards for teaching and mentorship.
Robert Louis Ruff, M.D., Ph.D., is a neurologist and biophysicist who is interested in Neuro-rehabilitation directed toward stroke. He received his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Washington. He is a Professor of Neurology and Neurosciences at Case Western Reserve University. He is National Director for Neurology and the acting director of Rehabilitation Research for the Department of Veterans Affairs. He has been Chief of the Neurology, Rehabilitation and Spinal Cord Injury Dysfunction Services at the Louis Stokes Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Cleveland. He is the Medical Director of the FES Center in Cleveland, which is a VA Rehab Research Center of Excellence. Dr. Ruff was the Associate Editor of the journal Neurology from 1994 through 1996. He joined the editorial Board of Muscle & Nerve in 2004. He has been on the editorial board of the Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development since 1999 and became Deputy Editor of JRRD in 2004 and Editor-in-Chief in 2005. His clinical research interests include treatment of people with spinal cord compression due to cancer and stroke rehabilitation. He has twenty years on continually funded research. His research deals with membrane biophysics, clinical neurology and stroke rehabilitation research and he has published more than 110 peer-reviewed journal publications and more than 40 book chapters or books. He is Board Certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (Neurology, 1982) and the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Spinal Cord Medicine, 2002).
Karen A. Schwab, Ph.D., is Chief of the Statistics and Epidemiology Branch, Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center (DVBIC). She received her Ph.D. in Sociology, concentrating in Research Methodology. She conducts multi-center research studies and epidemiological studies in traumatic brain injury with DVBIC collaborators, and has co-authored numerous articles. Her interests include the long term outcomes of individuals with traumatic brain injury, and methodological issues in brain injury research.
Rune J. Simeonsson, Ph. D., M.S.P.H. is Professor of Education, Research Professor of Psychology and a Fellow at the FPG Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also holds an appointment as Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychiatry at Duke University. He is coordinator of the School Psychology Program and teaches graduate courses in psychological assessment and intervention, child development and disability and research design and analysis. His research interests reflect the intersection of child development, special education and public health focusing on issues in assessment and classification of childhood disability and the promotion of child health and development. Areas of academic work include (a) analyses of children's environments, (b) longitudinal follow-up of young children in the National Early Intervention Longitudinal Study, and (c) interdisciplinary training in a joint European Union-US consortium on early childhood intervention. He is actively engaged in research and scholarship on human functioning and disability and is currently serving as chair of a work group for the World Health Organization to develop a version of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health for Children and Youth.
Lynn Solem, M.D., a native Minnesotan, attended college and medical school at the University of Minnesota from 1962-1969. Following medical school he did a rotating medicine internship at St. Paul Ramsey Medical Center in St. Paul, MN, followed by 9 months of an internal medicine residency at the University of Minnesota affiliated hospitals. He was in the United States Navy from 1971 to 1973 where his duty stations included Davisville and Newport, Rhode Island, South Pole Station in Antarctica and Christchurch, New Zealand. Dr. Solem returned to St. Paul Ramsey Medical Center in 1973 and completed his surgical residency in 1977. Upon completion of his residency, he became a staff member of St. Paul-Ramsey Hospital (now Regions Hospital) and became Burn Director in 1980. Dr. Solem was Chief of Surgery at Regions Hospital and HealthPartners Medical Group from 1999 to 2003. He recently retired and plans to spend significant time in International Outreach. Dr. Solem is an associate professor of surgery at the University of Minnesota. He has been active in the American Burn Association since 1976 and has been a member or chaired multiple committees of the American Burn Association including the Education Committee, the subcommittee of the Ad Hoc Committee on Burn Center Verification, the Committee on Regionalization, the Burn Center Verification Committee and Chaired the Ad Hoc Committee on Quality. One of his proudest accomplishments is to have developed an International Outreach Committee with an affiliation with Health Volunteers Overseas. They presently have developed working relationships with hospitals in India and Vellore and are pursuing a relationship in Central America. Dr. Solem was the 36th President of the American Burn Association in 2003-2004. He is also on the Board of the Phoenix Society.
Thomas E. Stripling has served as Paralyzed Veterans of America's Director of Research, Education and Practice Guidelines program since 2001. This program includes management of PVA's Spinal Cord Research Foundation, PVA's Spinal Cord Injury Education and Training Foundation and the Consortium for Spinal Cord Medicine for Clinical Practice Guidelines. The foundations are both 501(C)(3) not-for-profit corporations awarding 1 or 2 year projects in either research or education dedicated to spinal cord injury or disease. The Consortium represents 20 medical, nursing, therapeutic and advocacy organizations focused spinal cord injury that publishes evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. Mr. Stripling joined PVA in 1981 as a health policy researcher. He has conducted and/or managed studies for PVA on the economic consequences of SCI and multiple sclerosis, membership needs and services, bladder cancer, sports and recreation, and various health services questions, ranging from managed care to assisted living to psycho-demographic statistics. Mr. Stripling graduated from Providence College in 1972 with a bachelor's degree in sociology. Prior to joining PVA, he was involved in the developmental disabilities field as a program manager, researcher, community liaison and advocate.
Margaret A. Turk, M.D., is Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Pediatrics at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University at Syracuse. She is also Medical Director of Rehabilitation Services at St. Camillus Health and Rehabilitation Center. Dr. Turk serves as Chairman of the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and as a member of the American Board of Medical Specialties Board of Directors and Maintenance of Certification Task Force. In addition to her clinical and administrative responsibilities, Dr. Turk is involved in rehabilitation research and has been funded by CDC over a 10 year period for projects related to secondary conditions of and health promotion for persons with disabilities. Her publications and national and international presentations have been on pediatric rehabilitation, pediatric electrodiagnosis, tone management, adults with cerebral palsy, secondary conditions, health promotion in disability, and the health of women with disabilities. She contributed to the 1997 Institute of Medicine report “Enabling America,” and is a member of the present IOM panel regarding the status and future of disability in America. She serves as a member of the NCMRR, NICHD Advisory Board. She participates with the NYS DOH Disability Prevention Program, funded through CDC NCBDDD, as the co-chair of the Working Group on Secondary Conditions. She serves on the Advisory Board for the NIH-funded K-12 Rehabilitation Medicine Scientist Training Program. She has served on a variety of program planning committees and standing and ad hoc study groups for CDC, NIH, and NIDRR, including the Medical Rehabilitation Research Subcommittee, NICHD, NIH, where she was Chairman for two years. She received The Ohio State University College of Medicine & Public Health Alumnae Achievement Award in 2000, and the United Cerebral Palsy Research and Educational Foundation Isabelle and Leonard Goldenson Technology and Rehabilitation Award in 2004.
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