Join us for our special 2-part kickoff series inspired by the New England Journal of Medicine article “From Survival to Survivorship – Framing Traumatic Injury as a Chronic Condition.” In this episode, we discuss coordinated care across the lifespan of those with traumatic injuries.
Episode Guests:
Dr. Jeffrey Schneider is the medical director of Trauma and Burn Rehabilitation at Spaulding Rehabilitation and associate professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School. He serves as project director of the Boston Harvard Burn Injury Model System, a multi-institutional center grant focused on long-term outcomes in the burn population. His interests also include utilizing large data to explore rehabilitation outcomes and he is the co-Director of the Rehabilitation Outcomes Center at Spaulding.
Diana Tenney is a burn survivor who sustained a burn injury to over 90% of her body 13 years ago. She has completed well over 1000 peer support visits and speaks locally and nationally about her experience as a burn survivor. Diana currently serves as Co-Director of Knowledge Translation for the Boston-Harvard Burn Injury Model System. She is past-President and Board member of BSONE, the Burn Survivors of New England, Co-Director of the Diana Tenney Burn Research Fund, and a member of the Spaulding Council on Disability Awareness.
Judy Heumann