Director, Center for Outcomes and Measurement, and Professor, Department of Occupational Therapy
Thomas Jefferson University
Phildelphia, New Jersey, United States
Dr. Mulcahey is a Professor of Occupational Therapist and Director of the Center for Outcomes and Measurement in the College of Rehabilitation Sciences at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA. She has 30 years of experience as a practitioner, educator and researcher. She is Certified Life Care Planner and Certified Positive Psychology Coach. Her primary area of research is on the development, validation and utilization of new and existing outcome measures of impairment, physical function, activity, and participation for children, youth and adults with spinal cord injury (SCI), and other chronic conditions. Engaging and working collaboratively with others, Dr. Mulcahey has developed and validated IRT-based child and parent reported outcome measures, conducted psychometric studies to establish lower age guidelines for outcome instruments used in SCI clinical trials, established pediatric recommendations for the NINDS SCI CDE and International SCI basic data sets, and developed and validated estimates to allow linking between pediatric and adult patient reported outcome scores. She has conducted research on coaching outcomes with caregivers of children with SCI and adults with SCI. Dr. Mulcahey has published over 180 peer-reviewed manuscripts and 19 chapters, and served as editor for 9 books\ special journal issues. She has received research funding from the National Institutes of Health, Craig H. Neilsen Foundation, Rick Hansen Institute and the Shriners Hospitals for Children. Dr. Mulcahey is current Chair of the Board of Trustees of the American Occupational Therapy Foundation, past-president of the American Spinal Injury Association, chair of the Board of Governance of the Steel Assembly for Pediatric SCI\D, and serves as associate editor for Topics in SCI Rehabilitation and editorial board member of Spinal Cord and the Physical Therapy Journal.
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