Miriam Rafferty, DPT, PhD

Director of Implementation Science
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

Dr. Miriam Rafferty is the Director of Implementation Science and a Research Scientist at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab. She is also an Assistant Professor at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in the Departments of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Medical Social Sciences, and Psychiatry & Behavioral Science. She is also an active physical therapist clinician specializing in neurologic physical therapy for people with Parkinson’s disease. Dr. Rafferty’s research focuses on health services delivery models for people with Parkinson’s disease, particularly proactive delivery models. She also uses implementation science methodology to study the implementation of evidence-based practices and novel technologies into real-world rehabilitation settings.

Poster(s):

• Can the Mann Assessment of Swallowing Ability Be Used as an Aspiration Risk Screening Tool in Parkinson’s Disease?

• Exploring Vocational Rehabilitation Among People with Parkinson’s Disease: A Qualitative Descriptive Study

• Preliminary Evaluation of the Implementation Potential of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Veterans Using the DART-RT