About the Presenter 

Carol Howland is Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Baylor College of Medicine and the Center for Research on Women with Disabilities (CROWD) in Houston, Texas.  She was project director and an investigator for a recent 3-year, NIDRR-funded study of risk factors for abuse of women with disabilities, which included a national survey of domestic violence programs, and an investigator for a national study of reproductive health, which revealed lifelong emotional, physical, and sexual abuse among women with disabilities.  She was also project director and investigator for a longitudinal study of health maintenance and personal assistance services, which documented incidents of abuse by personal care attendants.  Ms. Howland was a researcher at ILRU until 1992, when she helped establish CROWD to focus on women’s disability issues.  She has been at Baylor or TIRR since 1979. 

Carol Howland
Assistant Professor
Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Center for Research on Women with Disabilities
Baylor College of Medicine
3440 Richmond Avenue, Suite B
Houston, TX 77046
(713) 960-0505
FAX: (713) 961-3555
chowland@bcm.tmc.edu

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