Racial/Ethnic and Gender Disparities in Health Outcomes of Persons with Spinal Cord Injury
About the Presenters
James S. Krause, Ph.D., holds the rank of Professor
and Associate Dean for Clinical Research in the College of Health
Professions at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC).
He is Director of the Program for Movement, Exercise, and Rehabilitative
Research, a university-funded program, serves as Director for the
Center for Interdisciplinary Spinal Cord Injury Research, and serves
as Scientific Director of the South Carolina Spinal Cord Injury
Research Fund. In terms of consumer affiliation, Dr. Krause is
a member of the governing Board of Directors of the Disability
Resource Center in Charleston and works closely with the Director
of the South Carolina Spinal Cord Injury Association helping to
facilitate statewide dissemination of research. He has
served as Principal Investigator and Project Director on several
long-term outcomes research projects, including 11-year, 15-year,
20-year, 25-year, 30-year, and 35-year longitudinal SCI studies,
two longitudinal studies of vocational interests and SCI, two studies
of 10-year risk for secondary conditions, and four studies of mortality
(a total of nine field-initiated grants through NIDRR and three
R01s from NIH). He has also served as Principal Investigator of
three projects within the Model Spinal Cord Injury Systems (supported
by NIDRR) and currently serves as consultant on the Georgia Regional
MSCIS. Dr. Krause has authored over 80 articles in peer-reviewed
journals and has made over 100 presentations at national and international
professional conferences.
Karla Reed is currently a Project Coordinator at MUSC.
Mrs. Reed holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the College of
Charleston and will complete a Master of Arts in Psychology at The Citadel
in August 2008. She has worked with Dr Krause for almost two years as the
Project Coordinator of three federally funded grants. Her previous work
included data collection and organization of a randomized clinical trial
for smoking cessation and a randomized clinical trial for cocaine dependence.
Mrs. Reed has assisted in preparation of presentations for professional
conferences, dissemination of publications, has served as a co-author on
a published article, and has presented at national conferences of the American
Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine and the Southeastern Psychological Association.
Jennifer Coker, MPH, is currently a Project Coordinator
at MUSC. Ms. Coker obtained a Master of Public Health (MPH) from the Rollins
School of Public Health at Emory University in May 2001. She has worked
with Dr. Krause for over a decade on federally funded disability grants
that focus on long-term outcomes and aging. While working at the Shepherd
Center in Atlanta, GA, Ms. Coker was the Project Coordinator for several
federally funded studies with Dr. Krause as the PI, including the Georgia
Regional Spinal Cord Injury Model System. Later, Ms. Coker was Project Coordinator
for the Georgia Brain Injury Model System. Ms. Coker has continued her role
as Project Coordinator for seven federally funded grants at MUSC. Ms. Coker
has presented research at national conferences of the American Spinal Injury
Association, American Association of Spinal Cord Injury Psychologists and
Social Workers, the American Public Health Association, and the American
Psychological Association. In addition, Ms. Coker has won several awards
for research presentations and work with persons with disabilities, including
best paper and best poster at Shepherd Center Research Day (2000), and the
James W. Alley Award for Outstanding Service to Disadvantaged Populations
(2001) presented by Emory University.
Randy Smith Sr. was born in James Island, South Carolina.
He received his undergraduate degree from Limestone College and he has completed
graduate coursework at Webster University. Mr. Smith is a decorated veteran
of the U.S. Navy and he is currently involved in several community-based
initiatives. Mr. Smith has worked as a counselor for the elderly, people
with mental and physical disabilities, and youth.
NIDRR-funded Field Initiated Project: Participation, Subjective
Well-Being, Health, and Spinal Cord Injury: A 35-Year Longitudinal Study (Medical
University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC)
This webcast is supported through the National Center for the Dissemination
of Disability Research (NCDDR), which is funded by the National
Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) in the U.S.
Department of Education, and is supported in part by ILRU.
The opinions and views expressed are those of the presenters and no endorsement
by the funding agency should be inferred.
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