Conducting Culturally Humble Rehabilitation Research

About the Webcast

Researchers from the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Developing Strategies to Foster Community Integration and Participation for Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury (NIDILRR# H133B090023) discuss important issues related to conducting research with ethnic and racial minorities and the medically underserved. The informed consent process, language and cultural issues, communication, study retention over long-term follow-up periods, and compensation are discussed using examples from research and training studies implemented in a large ethnically, racially, and economically diverse metropolitan area over the past 10 years. This information may benefit researchers who would like to expand their capacity to include underserved populations.

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  1. The webcast originally aired via YouTube on August 19, 2015. You do not need a YouTube account to participate.
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About the Presenters

Photo of Angelle M. Sander

Angelle M. Sander, Ph.D., is Associate Professor with tenure in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Baylor College of Medicine and is Director of the Division of Clinical Neuropsychology and Rehabilitation Psychology. She is also Director of TIRR Memorial Hermann's Brain Injury Research Center and Senior Scientist on the TIRR Research Council. She is the Project Director for the NIDILRR-funded Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Developing Strategies to Foster Community Integration and Participation for Individuals With Traumatic Brain Injury and has extensive experience working with persons from racially and ethnically diverse backgrounds, both clinically and in research.

Photo of Allison N. Clark

Allison N. Clark, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Baylor College of Medicine, and Research Scientist at the Brain Injury Research Center at TIRR Memorial Hermann. She is the Director of Training for the NIDILRR-funded Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Developing Strategies to Foster Community Integration and Participation for Individuals With Traumatic Brain Injury, and a Co-Investigator for the Texas Traumatic Brain Injury Model System of TIRR. Dr. Clark is trained as a clinical neuropsychologist and has significant experience implementing cognitive rehabilitation interventions with ethnic and racial minority populations and the medically underserved.

Photo of Monique R. Pappadis

Monique R. Pappadis, Ph.D, is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Rehabilitation Sciences, School of Health Professions at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) and an Investigator at the Brain Injury Research Center of TIRR Memorial Hermann and on the TIRR Research Council. She was recently named a UTMB Pepper Center Research Career and Development Core Scholar. She also works as the Spanish-speaking case coordinator for the NIDILRR-funded Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Developing Strategies to Foster Community Integration and Participation for Individuals With Traumatic Brain Injury and has 13 years of experience working with racial/ethnic minority and Spanish-speaking populations in medical and research settings.