RIC Patient Stories

Eric Edmundson

Eric Edumundson

Eric, a military veteran, received a complex combination of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and anoxic brain injury (ABI) due to a roadside bomb explosion in Iraq.

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Michele Lee

Michele Lee

Michele Lee found a career and an aptitude for art through RIC's Second Look program.

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Eric Weil

Eric Weil

Eric, a pediatrician working in Chicago, participated in RIC's prime-of-life program to recover the abilities that drive his life.

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Natalie Davis

Natalie Davis

Natalie Davis took part in rehabilitation including robot-assisted therapy to advance her ability.

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Omar Al-Dhafiri

Omar and his father traveled from Kuwait to Chicago for Omar's care after he sustained a traumatic brain injury.

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Photograph of Allen W. Heinemann

Allen W. Heinemann, PhD

  • Director, CROR, RIC
  • Associate Director of Research, RIC
  • Professor, PM&R, Feinberg School of Medicine, NU
  • Senior Faculty Fellow, Institute for Health Services Research and Policy Studies, NU

Locations

Research Interests

Allen W. Heinemann, PhD is currently researching Teaching Interests: Rehabilitation-related health services research; psychological aspects of disabling conditions; research design, statistics and methodology; behavioral medicine; neuropsychology; substance abuse and disability. Research Interests: Health services research in rehabilitation, substance abuse and traumatic injury, adjustment and coping processes following disability, injury and illness; neuropsychology; utilization of behavioral methods in rehabilitation.

Awards & Recognition

2006 - Distinguished Member Award, American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine.

2005 - Presidential Address, The search for meaningful outcomes in rehabilitation psychology. Presented at the 113th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Washington, DC, August 19.

2005 - Fellow, American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine.

2005 - Presidential Address, ACRM’s Evolving Mission: Opportunities to Promote Rehabilitation Research, Presented at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, Chicago, IL, September 30. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, in press.

2005 - Keynote speaker, Pacific Coast Brain Injury Conference, Presentation titled: Community Participation from the Perspective of Multiple Stakeholders, October 21, 2005, Vancouver, British Columbia.

2005 - Morita Distinguished Fellow, Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific, December 5-9, 2005, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Recent Publications & Presentations

Durkin E, Heinemann AW, Deutsch A. Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities: Variation in organizational practice in response to prospective payment. Medical Care Research and Review, 2009 [ePub ahead of print].

Magasi S, Hammel J, Heinemann AW, Whiteneck G, Bogner J. Participation: A comparative analysis of multiple rehabilitation stakeholders' perspectives. Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, in press.

Williams RT, Heinemann AW, Bode RK, Wilson CS, Fann JR, Tate DG. Improving measurement properties of the PHQ-9 with rating scale analysis. Rehabilitation Psychology, 54, 198-203, 2009.

Alexander MS, Anderson K, Biering-Sorensen F, Blight AR, Brannon R, Bryce T, Creasey G, Catz A, Curt A, Donovan D, Ditunno J, Ellaway P, Finnerup NB, Graves DE, Haynes BA, Heinemann AW , Jackson AB, Johnston M, Kalpakjian, Kleitman N, Krassioukov A, Krogh K, Lammertse D, Magasi S, Mulcahey MJ, Schurch B, Sherwood A, Steeves JD, Stiens S, Tulsky DS, van Hedel HJA, Whiteneck G. Outcome measures in spinal cord injury: Recent assessments and recommendations for future directions. Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, 47(8):582-91, 2009.

Deutsch A, Granger CV, Russell C, Heinemann AW, Ottenbacher KJ. Apparent changes in IRF outcomes due to a change in the definition of program interruption . Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 89, 2274-2277.

Mallinson T., Manheim L., Almagor O., & Heinemann, AW. Trends in the Supply of IRF Services: 1996 to 2004. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation . 2008 Nov;89(11):2066-79.

Heinemann AW . Executive summary of the State-of-the-Science Symposium on Post-Acute Rehabilitation. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 88(11), 1478-81, 2007. Reprinted in American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, Assistive Technology Journal 2008 Spring;20(1):55-60., Journal of Neuroengineering and Rehabilitation (4:43), Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine (30(5) 452-457), OTJR: Occupation, Participation and Health (28(1) 40-45), Physical Therapy (87(11) 1536-1541), American Journal of Occupational Therapy (62(2) 251-255), Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation (22(6) 403-408), Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation(14(6) 78-84), Rehabilitation Nursing (33(2) 82-87), 2008.

Burger H, Franchignoni F, Heinemann AW , Kotnik S, Andrea G. Validation of the OPUS upper extremity functional status module in people with unilateral upper limb amputation. Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, 40(5), 393-399, 2008.

Heinemann AW , Lazowski LE, Moore D, Miller F, McAweeney M. Validation of a substance use disorder screening instrument for use in vocational rehabilitation settings. Rehabilitation Psychology¸ 53(1):63-72, February 2008.

Bode RK, Heinemann AW, Zahara D, Lovell L. Outcomes in two post-acute non-inpatient rehabilitation settings. Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation, 14(1), 38-47, 2007.

Shah PK, Heinemann AW, Manheim LM. The effect of Medicare’s prospective payment system on patient satisfaction: An illustration with four rehabilitation hospitals. American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 86(3), 169-175, 2007.

Vungkhanching M, Heinemann AW, Langley MJ, Ridgely M, Kramer KM, Feasibility of a skills-based substance abuse prevention following traumatic brain injury, Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation,22(3), 167-176, 2007.

Pickelsimer EE, Selassie AW, Sample PL, Heinemann AW, Gu JK, Veldheer LC. Unmet service needs of persons with traumatic brain injury. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 22.(1), 1–13, 2007.