Leonard Diller Award Lectures

Invited lecture at the RP Midwinter Conference featuring a rehabilitation psychologist who has made significant scholarly contributions to the field of neurorehabilitation.


Gitendre Uswatte

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Juan Carlos Arango-Lasprilla

University of the Basque Country

Ruchika Prakash

The Ohio State University

Jacqueline Kaufman, Ph.D.

University of Michigan

Functional Neurological Assessments: My Accidental Career in Rehabilitation Psychology


Tom Kerkoff, Ph.D., ABPP (Rp)

Virginia Commonwealth University

Karlene Ball, PhD

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Translating the Improvement of Cognitive Function to Everyday Tasks in Older Adults


Janet P. Niemeier, Ph.D., ABPP (RP)

Carolinas Healthcare System, Charlotte, NC

The Devil, and Beneficence, are in the Details: Personalized Cognitive Rehabilitation Through Rigor and Transparency in Brain Injury Research


Alan L. Goldberg, Psy.D., ABPP; J.D.

Syracuse University

Legal Beagle? Service & Emotional Support Animals, Law, & Psychological Practice


Seth Warschausky, Ph.D.

University of Michigan

Motivation and Executive Control in the Transition to Health Self-Management


Bruce Caplan, Ph.D., ABPP

Independent Practice

A Little of This and a Little of That: Grandma, Lenny, and me


Keith D. Cicerone, Ph.D., ABPP-CN, FACRM

Johnson Rehabilitation Institute

What is the Object of Cognitive Rehabilitation?


Mark Sherer, PhD, ABPP-CN, FACRM

TIRR Hermann Memorial

Factors that Predict Community Integration Outcomes for Persons with Traumatic Brain Injury


James Malec, Ph.D.

Indiana University School of Medicine

Post-hospital brain injury rehabilitation: Types of programs and their effectiveness


Jacobus Donders, PhD, ABPP

Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital

Pediatric Rehabilitation: Snake Oil or Science


Tessa Hart, Ph.D.

Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute

Theories for Rehabilitation: What and Why?


Mary Hibbard, Ph.D., ABPP

Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine

Expanding Rehabilitation Psychology to Other Nations: Challenges and Rewards


Leonard Diller, Ph.D., ABPP-CN

Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine

Rehabilitation Psychology: A Subjective View


Wayne Gordon, Ph.D., ABPP

Mount Sinai Hospital

A 40-Year Perspective on Cognitive Rehabilitation


John D. Corrigan, Ph.D., ABPP

The Ohio State University

New Developments in Substance Abuse Treatment for Persons with Traumatic Brain Injury


Erin Bigler, Ph.D.

Bingham Young University

Advances in Neuroimaging and Traumatic Brain Injury


Jeffrey Kreutzer, Ph.D.

Virginia Commonwealth University

All I really need to know I learned from patients and their families


J. Scott Richards, Ph.D., ABPP

University of Alabama Birmingham

Spinal Cord Injury Pain: Impact, Classification, Treatment Trends, and Implications From Translational Research


Beatrice Wright, Ph.D.

University of Wisconsin

Diller Honorary Lecture: A Personal Photo Journey


Mitch Rosenthal, Ph.D., ABPP

Kessler Medical Rehabilitation Research Corp.

Bridging Rehabilitation Psychology and Neuropsychology to Achieve Optimal Outcomes in Brain Injury Rehabilitation (at RP2003 conference)


Edward Taub, Ph.D.

University of Alabama Birmingham

Constraint-Induced (CI) Therapy: An Overview


Denise Tate, Ph.D., ABPP

University of Michigan

Hospital to Community: Changes in Practice and Outcomes


Yehuda Ben-Yishay, PhD

Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine

Examined Lives: Outcomes After Holistic Rehabilitation


George Prigatano, Ph.D., ABPP

Barrow Neurological Institute

Impaired Awareness, Finger Tapping, and Rehabilitation Outcome After Brain Injury