A news article on a new rapid blood test that can determine if someone has sustained a mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) featured insight by Hollis Bell, MD, attending physician, Brain Innovation Center.

A new center grant recently was awarded to Shirley Ryan AbilityLab to create a system to evaluate home and community-based services. The grant — with funding of $4.4 million over five years — started on Sep. 1 and is through the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

On this episode of INside the OUTcomes: A Rehabilitation Research Podcast, our guests are Bridgette Schram, PhD, project manager on the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Home and Community-Based Services at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, and Sara Karon, PhD, co-principal investigator on the project and a senior health policy analyst at RTI International.

Among the discussion of racial equity and disparities in all areas of American life, disparities in healthcare utilization and people’s experiences with the healthcare system have picked up steam between policymakers, clinicians, analysts, and patients.

Our research focuses on developing neural control systems for upper and lower prosthetics.

Over the last several years, we have been developing protocols to enhance the activity of residual sensorimotor pathways in individuals who suffered from spinal cord injury (SCI). We are happy to communicate that we are starting Phase IV of our protocol and we are actively enrolling participants. Led by P.I. Monica Perez

We are working to understand the nature of the somatosensory and motor signals within the brain that control our movements.