When the Best is the Enemy of the Good – The Nature of Research
Evidence used in Systematic Reviews and Guidelines
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.
Tamara Bushnik, PhD, is Director of the Rehabilitation Research Center
at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center (SCVMC) and co-Director
of the Northern California Traumatic Brain Injury Model System of Care.
Dr. Bushnik is the Program Chair for the American Congress of Rehabilitation
Medicine and the TBI Model Systems Chair of the Dissemination Committee.
In addition to the TBI Model System research program at SCVMC, she was
recently awarded a new NIDRR-funded Field-Initiated Project, "A New
Measure of Subjective Fatigue in Persons with TBI."
Mark Sherer, Ph.D., ABPP-Cn, is Clinical Professor of
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, and Senior
Scientist and Director of Research and Neuropsychology at TIRR-Memorial
Hermann. Dr. Sherer has served as principal investigator for grants on
TBI recovery, impaired self-awareness, telephone counseling for persons
with TBI, TBI community integration, and rehabilitation of brain tumor
patients and currently serves as the principal investigator for the Texas
TBI Model System of TIRR. He has published more than 100 peer reviewed
articles and book chapters including an evidence-based review on the prognostic
validity of neuropsychological assessment for persons with TBI. He
is now working with a team conducting an evidence-based review of instruments
used for assessment of patients in vegetative or minimally conscious states.
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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