Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital, which is part of the Michigan Spinal Cord Injury Model System (MI-SCIMS) held their annual Halloween Trunk-or-Treat for patients on Friday, October 27th in Grand Rapids.
Steven Erickson, PharmD, will be presenting at this year’s Disability Advocacy Coalition in Medicine virtual conference. His presentation is entitled “Disability Cultural Awareness: Let’s Start the Discussion.”
U-M CDHW member P. F. Anderson has coauthored a blog post entitled “On Searching for the Unknown with Unspeakable Names: Searching PubMed for Disability Research,” published September 27, 2023
Diane M. Harper, MD, MPH, MS, an internationally recognized family physician and clinical research expert, was recently awarded an American Cancer Society Screening Priority Area grant to study self-sampling for cervical cancer screening among Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) and American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) women with physical disabilities (WWPD).
Sheria Robinson-Lane, Assistant Professor of Nursing at the University of Michigan School of Nursing was the lead author of a new article published in Geriatric Nursing looking at the types of preparations adults make to age in place. The findings have been highlighted by U-M's Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation as well as U.S. News and World Report.
The University Record published an article last week about a series of upcoming workshops surrounding the topic of accessibility.
Researchers at the University of Michigan conducted a qualitative study to evaluate the experiences of Deaf people who use American Sign Language (ASL).
A new report written for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services provides a thorough overview of the current patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) measures for adults (18-64 years old) with disabilities. Using currently available measures, the report identified six major areas of outcomes research and discussed the gaps that currently exist. Finally, the authors discussed the importance of federal interagency collaboration as a way to increase the quality of data collected across the lifespan of adults with disabilities.
U-M CDHW Member Patricia Anderson was quoted in a September 3, 2023 New York Times article regarding her experience with Long Covid.
The Docs with Disabilities Initiative "Access In Medicine" will be launching their third book club on September 13, 2023, which will highlight Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally, by Emily Ladau.