NRDR: Collaborators
Kathie Albright, Ph.D., is an NIH psychology fellow in the Department of PM&R. Working many years counseling families with disabilities, she is interested in the role of parenting in the recovery of women with spinal cord injury and other disabilities, perception and appraisal of stress, narrative interpretation and acute rehabilitation issues. E-mail: bright@umich.edu.
Marcy Epstein, Ph.D., is an NIDRR research fellow in the Department of PM&R and an assistant professor of education and disability studies at the University of Windsor, Ontario. An English professor by background, her research interests include narrative research, women with disabilities, trauma, qualitative methodology, and cultures of rehabilitation and recovery. She coordinates the Narrative Research Group through the Advanced Rehabilitative Research Training Program and initiated the Telling Lives project. E-mail: mxfx@umich.edu.
Colette Hillebrand Duggan, Ph.D., is a senior research associate at the Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan Detroit Medical Center. Recently co-principal investigator of the Stress and Coping over the Life Course: A Perspective on Women with Spinal Cord Injury study, she studies narrative and spiritual meaning among the injured, and most recently is examining stress and well-being among caregivers. E-mail: cduggan@dmc.org.
Tara Jeji, M.D., M.B.A., is a research associate and an assistant professor at the Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan, where she serves as coordinator of the Women with Spinal Cord Injury support group. She is currently researching family caregivers of people with SCI and health care experiences of publicly insured people with tetraplegia. E-mail: tjeji@dmc.org.
