Professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
Director, Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago

345 East Superior Street
Chicago, IL  60611-2654

Phone: (312) 238-2802
Fax:     (312) 238-2383

a-heinemann@northwestern.edu

Allen W. Heinemann, Ph.D. completed his doctoral degree in clinical psychology at the University of Kansas with a specialty focus in rehabilitation. He completed an internship at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and was an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Illinois Institute of Technology. Since 1985, he has worked at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago where he directs the Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research, a rehabilitation-focused health services research unit. He is also associate director of Research at RIC and professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University. He serves on the Coordinating Committee for Northwestern University’s Institute for Healthcare Studies. His research interests focus on health services research, psychosocial aspects of rehabilitation including substance abuse, and measurement issues in rehabilitation. He is the author of more than 110 articles in peer-reviewed publications and is the editor of Substance Abuse and Physical Disability published by Haworth Press. He is the recipient of funding by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (RRTC on Measuring Rehabilitation Outcomes and Effectiveness, DRRP on Health Services Research, Switzer Fellowship, Field Initiated Projects, Innovation Award, several RRTC projects), the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Centers for Disease Control, the Social Security Administration, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the J.M. Foundation, the Paralyzed Veterans of America-Spinal Cord Research Foundation, and the American Occupational Therapy Foundation and Association. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 22) and a diplomate in Rehabilitation Psychology (ABPP). During 2005-6, he served as the immediate past president of the American Congress of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and the Rehabilitation Psychology division of the American Psychological Association. He serves as a study section member for NIH, as the Congress Editor for the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, on the editorial board of NeuroRehabilitation, International Journal of Rehabilitation and Health, Journal of Applied Measurement, the Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, and Rehabilitation Psychology. He is the recipient of the Division 22 (Rehabilitation Psychology – of the American Psychological Association) Roger Barker Distinguished Career Award.

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