The Value of "Traditional" Reviews in the Era of Systematic Reviewing
About the Presenters
Marcel P.J.M. Dijkers, PhD, FACRM, is
the Facilitator for the Task Force on Systematic Review and Guidelines.
He is senior investigator in the NIDRR-funded Rehabilitation Research
and Training Center on TBI Interventions, as well as for the New
York TBI and Model Systems at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Dr.
Dijkers is Research Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation
Medicine. He has published more than 80 articles and chapters on
the social and functional consequences of SCI/TBI, the delivery
of health services for these conditions, outcome measurement, and
methodological and statistical issues in rehabilitation research.
Evidence-based practice has been an area of interest for the last
decade, and he has published a number of quantitative reviews and
meta-analyses. Dr. Dijkers served as methodological consultant
on a project by the Consortium for Spinal Cord Medicine to develop
a clinical practice guideline in the area of upper extremity injuries
of individuals with spinal cord injury.
Michael L. Boninger, MD, is director of the University of Pittsburgh
Model Center on Spinal Cord Injury (UPMC-SCI), funded by NIDRR, and is
Executive Director of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s
Center for Assistive Technology. He is Professor and Interim Chair of the
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of
Pittsburgh, as well as the Associate Dean for Medical Student Research
in the School of Medicine. Dr. Boninger works as a physician researcher
for the Department of Veterans Affairs and serves as Medical Director of
the Human Engineering Research Laboratories (HERL), a Department of Veterans
Affairs Center of Excellence. Dr. Boninger has over 120 peer-reviewed journal
publications and numerous book chapters and extended abstract. In 2003
he was elected to the College of Fellows in the American Institute for
Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). He has lectured internationally
on biomechanics of repetitive strain injury, assistive technology, and
wheelchair propulsion. Dr. Boninger also holds three U.S. patents.
David Vandergoot, PhD, is Project Co-Director for the Employment
Service Systems Research and Training Center (ESSRTC), a NIDRR-funded RRTC.
He is primarily responsible for overseeing instrument development, database
programming, data collection and statistical analysis for ESSRTC's research
projects. Dr. Vandergoot has been providing clinical, educational and research
contributions to the fields of rehabilitation education and counseling
for over 25 years. He is President of the Center for Essential Management
Services (CEMS) where he manages all aspects of research, training and
demonstration projects. Dr. Vandergoot has conducted numerous evaluation
and research projects concerned with the employment of people with disabilities.
His first study, published in 1977, explored the effectiveness of outreach
strategies to employers. He has written a text on placement strategies
in vocational rehabilitation and has directed or co-directed 17 research
projects studying the employment of people with disabilities.
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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