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Full Schedule

  • Wednesday, October 30, 2024
  • 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM  
    IC12: Influencing Practice and Policy Impact – There’s a Playbook for That!
  • 1:30 PM – 5:30 PM  
    IC9: Integrating Human Centered Design Strategies to Innovate Tailored Products and Processes for Target Audiences in Learning Health Systems
  • Thursday, October 31, 2024
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM  
    Introduction to Health Services Research: What It Is, What It’s Not, and Why It Matters
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM  
    MINI-TRACK: Limb Care
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM  
    Non-Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury Part I - Characteristics and Outcomes of Patients from the Model System Pilot Study and National Data for Older Americans
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM  
    Protecting the Future of Rehabilitation: Facilitators and Barriers to Educating Rehab Students on Health Care Policy and Advocacy
  • Friday, November 1, 2024
  • 8:15 AM – 9:15 AM  
    Advancing a Learning Health System through Rehabilitation-Academic Partnership: A Focus on Patient Satisfaction in Outpatient Rehabilitation
  • 8:15 AM – 9:15 AM  
    Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Speech-Language Pathology Care and Outcomes in Adults with Oropharyngeal Dysphagia
  • 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM  
    Health Services Research Networking Group
  • 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM  
    Applying the Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System across Speech-Language Pathology
  • 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM  
    Neuromodulation for the Nervous System - Our experience with Veterans and First Responders with Mental Health and Pain Challenges
  • 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM  
    SPECIAL SYMPOSIUM: Making an Impact: Tips on Conducting and Disseminating Policy-relevant Research
  • 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM  
    Transition to Adult Life for Patients Followed by Pediatric Rehabilitation Specialty Clinics: A Review of the Literature, Preliminary Research Findings, and Program Development
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM  
    Aging Research & Geriatric Rehabilitation Oral Presentations
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM  
    Clinical Practice Oral Presentations 1
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM  
    Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Oral Presentations
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM  
    Measurement Oral Presentations
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM  
    Spinal Cord Injury Interdisciplinary Special Interest Group Oral Presentations

    Moderator: Catherine J. VanDerwerker, PT, DPT, PhD – Ralph H. Johnson VAMC and the Medical University of South Carolina

  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM  
    Technology Oral Presentations
  • 4:15 PM – 5:15 PM  
    Building Capacity for Learning Health Systems Research in Rehabilitation: Turning Practice Data into Knowledge
  • 4:15 PM – 5:15 PM  
    FEATURED SESSION: Federal Funding Opportunities & Initiatives for Rehabilitation
  • 4:15 PM – 5:15 PM  
    Health Services Research: Addressing Disparities in Persons with Disability
  • 4:15 PM – 5:15 PM  
    The Role of Rehabilitation Medicine in Addressing the Public Health Crisis of Exposure to Environmental Toxins
  • Saturday, November 2, 2024
  • 8:15 AM – 9:15 AM  
    HOT TOPICS: Artificial Intelligence and Wearable-based Motor Assessment: Future Applications and Clinician Perspectives in Stroke Rehabilitation
  • 8:15 AM – 9:15 AM  
    Methodological Considerations for Using Medicare Claims Data to Study use of Community-Based Physical and Occupational Therapy
  • 8:15 AM – 9:15 AM  
    Using the Patient Experience in Rehabilitation for a Person-centered Quality Improvement
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM  
    Facilitating Cultural Transformation in Virtual Healthcare Through Human Centered Design, Implementation, Policy & Practice: Case Examples from a Decade of Research in Veterans Health Administration
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM  
    Home & Community Neurorehabilitation Treatment Models and National Outcomes
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM  
    Wild Measurement: Strategies to Capture Meaningful Performance Improvements from Rehabilitation
  • 12:45 PM – 2:15 PM  
    PLENARY III: Coulter Award Lectureship — Promoting Rehabilitation as an Essential Health Service Integral to Universal Health Coverage — WHO Rehabilitation 2030 Initiative
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM  
    SPONSORED SESSION by SYNCHRON: “The Implantable Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) Bringing Autonomy to Your Patients”
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM  
    Early Mobilization/Rehabilitation in the Intensive Care Unit Oral Presentations
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM  
    Health Services Research Oral Presentations
    Health Services Research
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM  
    Engaging Nursing in Rehabilitation Research: A How to Guide to Increase Nursing Participation
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM  
    The Lived Experience and TBI Research: Leveraging Community Voices Through Community Advisory Boards
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM  
    Where to Start? Identifying Datasets for Rehabilitation and Disability Health Services Research
  • 5:15 PM – 6:15 PM  
    Health Services Research Networking Group Health Policy Task Force
  • Sunday, November 3, 2024
  • 8:15 AM – 9:15 AM  
    Conducting Research Using the Spinal Cord Injury Model Systems Database Part I: Database Overview and How To Access Data
  • 8:15 AM – 9:15 AM  
    From Innovation to Practice: Expediting Clinical Integration
  • 8:15 AM – 9:15 AM  
    Integrated Design-based Research for Knowledge Translation in Fellowship and Residency Programs
  • 8:15 AM – 9:15 AM  
    Learning Health Systems Research: Training for a New Paradigm in Rehabilitation Research
  • 8:15 AM – 9:15 AM  
    Measuring Rehabilitation Service Use after Traumatic Brain Injury: Development and Initial Validation of the Rehabilitation Utilization Measure (RUM)
  • 8:15 AM – 9:15 AM  
    Stakeholder Perspectives on the Facilitators and Barriers to Meeting the Needs of Persons with TBI Across DOD, VA, and Community Settings
  • 8:15 AM – 9:15 AM  
    The Effects of Therapeutic Singing and Expiratory Muscle Strength Training on Cough and Respiratory Control in Parkinson’s Disease
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM  
    PLENARY IV: Integrating AI and Big Data in Healthcare: Practical Approaches for Rehabilitation Medicine Professionals 2792
  • 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM  
    Building Integrated Clinical Research Programs: from the Cancer Center to the Community
  • 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM  
    Conducting Research Using the Spinal Cord Injury Model Systems Database Part II: Case Studies and Best Practices for Reporting
  • 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM  
    Identifying and Addressing Real-life Challenges to Using the Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System
  • 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM  
    Leveraging Matching and Weighting Approaches in Rehabilitation Health Services Research
  • 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM  
    Specification and Consumer Validation of the Chronic Disease Model for Brain Injury
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM  
    Healthcare Cost and Utilization for TBI Among Service Members and Veterans
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM  
    Improvement and Implementation Science Methods: Similarities, Differences, and Applied Examples in Brain Injury Care
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM  
    Leveraging Social Determinants of Health Data to Improve Post-Acute Stroke Outcomes: Implications for Practice
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM  
    Multidisciplinary Clinical Collaboration To Optimize the Continuum of Post-Stroke Care
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM  
    Providing Frailty Index-driven Outpatient Rehabilitation Services During Cancer Treatment: Insights from Research and Clinical Practice