Assistant Professor
University of Southern California
Alison M. Cogan, PhD, OTR/L is an Assistant Professor in the Mrs. T. H. Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy at the University of Southern California. The focus of Dr. Cogan’s research is to improve the quality of rehabilitation services by identifying what combinations of services work best for whom to enable optimal functional performance and community participation for adults with acquired brain injury. A particular area of expertise is using electronic health record data for research. She also studies the data visualization approaches to enhance communication about functional recovery among clinical teams, patients, and their families. As a health services researcher, her work emphasizes understanding service delivery systems and the occupations of providing and receiving rehabilitation therapy services.