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Access to Medical Equipment – Where are We?

About the Webcast

How accessible is the medical equipment at your doctor's office? Can you get on the exam table by yourself?  Or, are you literally in the hands of untrained office staff?

All of us know that whether in doctor's offices or hospitals, medical testing equipment (consider the mammogram) is almost always inaccessible to people with physical disabilities.

Join ILRU to hear June Kailes discuss efforts being taken to make equipment used in health care more accessible.

For the past five years, Kailes has been part of the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Accessible Medical Instrumentation at Marquette University in Milwaukee. Her presentation will cover research and development activities of the center as well as an assessment of the current state of accessibility in health care testing.

The Web cast is an initiative of the Rehabilitation Research & Training Center on Health & Wellness at Oregon Health Sciences University and Technology for Independence Disability Rehabilitation Research Project at the University of Syracuse.