Associate Director
Kessler Foundation
Amanda Botticello, PhD, MPH is the Associate Director of the Center for Outcomes and Assessment Research at the Kessler Foundation in West Orange, NJ. She is affiliated with the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School where she is both Research Professor and Vice Chair of Research Education. She conducts research on the social determinants of health and disability, with a focus on environmental factors and addressing barriers to community reintegration for adults with SCI, children with special health care needs, and other populations with chronic health conditions such as TBI, MS, and psychiatric disabilities. Dr. Botticello trained in social epidemiology at the Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles where she received her MPH and PhD. She holds a BA in Psychology from Amherst College.