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Christina Papadimitriou, PhD FACRM

Professor
Oakland University

Christina Papadimitriou is Professor at Oakland University, School of Health Sciences. Christina received her Ph.D. from Boston University, Department of Sociology (2000), and her post-doctoral training from Northwestern University, Institute of Healthcare Studies (2009) and the Sherly Ryan Ability Lab, Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research. Christina conducts field-based human subject research using interdisciplinary training in sociology and health services research. She uses an equity-based hermeneutic approach to make invisible positions and experiences visible to develop inclusive and collaborative rehabilitation practices and assessments that can lead to greater shared benefits for those we serve. Her scholarship aims to explicate all types of assumptions that we take for granted about what it means to live with disability in society. This requires rethinking disability-related medical rehabilitation. Among her most cited work, and the work that has drawn the most international attention, include these efforts to conceptually expand our understanding of disability rehabilitation and challenge taken-for-granted assumptions. The concepts of en-wheeling, temporal and existential disruption, combine philosophy and social science perspectives to suggest that disability is part of human diversity and that our professional and disciplinary blinders prevent us from treating persons with disabilities as fully human and result in our missing important aspects of their post-injury recovery and re-habituation.

With a group of scholars, practitioners, and care partners, she is co-developing a relationship-centered assessment for persons who need high level of support due to cognitive disabilities. She also studies peer navigation to improve health and healthcare outcomes and community participation for persons with physical disabilities in the USA.

She collaborates with investigators from a variety of disciplines, including care partners. Christina’s research has been funded by the NIDILRR, RWJF, and AHRQ.

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