Meet
OUR Team
Director
Dr. Deborah Gross
Deputy Director
Dr. Janiece Taylor
Alicia Cooke
Center Program Coordinator
Vacant
Senior Admin Coordinator
Kennedy McDaniel
Design Strategy Manager
Dr. Wonkyung (Kelly) Jung
Postdoctoral Fellow
Brian Fitzek
Knowledge Translation Specialist
OUR Advisory BoaRds
Internal Advisory Boards
Abdul Bachani, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Jermaine Monk, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
External Advisory Boards
Sarah Ailey, Rush University
Jeanne Alhusen, University of Virgnia
Harolyn Belcher, Kennedy Krieger Institute
Liz Briscoe, Action in Maturity
Margaret Campbell, Campbell & Associates Consultants
Bruce Finke, Indian Health Services
Tracie Harrison, University of Texas at Austin, School of Nursing
Patrice Heinz, The National Alliance for Caregiving
Amy Houtrow, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Ahrin Mishan, The Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation
Bradley Schlagger, Kennedy Krieger Institute
Linda Stewart, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Heang Tan, Baltimore City Health Department
Mike Weikert, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)
Research to Policy Translation Board
Paul Osterman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Robyn Stone, LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston
Ellen Marie Whelan, CMS Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services
Kali Thomas, Brown University
OUR FUNDER
The National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) is the primary research arm of the Administration for Community Living in the Department of Health and Human Services. It aims to generate new knowledge and promote its effective use to improve the abilities of people with disabilities to perform activities of their choice in the community; and to expand society’s capacity to provide full opportunities and accommodations for citizens with disabilities.
NIDILRR achieves this mission by:
Providing for research, demonstration, training, technical assistance and related activities to maximize the full inclusion and integration into society, employment, independent living, family support, and economic and social self-sufficiency of individuals with disabilities of all ages;
Promoting the transfer of, use and adoption of rehabilitation technology for individuals with disabilities in a timely manner; and
Ensuring the widespread distribution, in usable formats, of practical scientific and technological information;
Addressing a wide range of disabilities and impairments across populations of all ages.