My team develops and tests approaches that increase function and independence after stroke and other neurologic diseases. We have held uninterrupted extramural funding to support our rehabilitative trials for nearly 15 years, and have produced many "firsts" in neurorehabilitation, developing and showing efficacy of mental practice, portable robotics, modified constraint-induced therapy, functional electrical stimulation, brain stimulation in moderately impaired individuals, and several other innovative strategies in people with acquired brain injuries. This includes 8 NIH grants and 5 grants from the American Heart Association, as well as funding from multiple private organizations and subcontracts. I have also published over 100 peer reviewed articles, have delivered over 250 lectures nationally and internationally, and have served as guest issue editor for 14 special issues of rehabilitative and neurological journals since 2001, including The Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, The American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and The Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation. I am also Associate Editor of The American Journal of Occupational Therapy, and a fellow of the American Heart Association, The American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, and The American Occupational Therapy Association; the only OT to hold all of these distinctions. I also am a standing panel member on NIH's Function, Integration, and Rehabilitation Sciences Panel.
