My name is Madison Etheridge, and I am 15 years old. I was born with cerebral palsy.

CEDHARS Director James Rimmer, Ph.D., will be the recipient of the Marchase Award as part of Core Day on Jan. 9, 2024.

April Turner is the Director of the Traumatic Brain Injury Program in Alabama. Since being named director in 2019, Turner has made Alabama one of the nation’s leading states in TBI supports and services.

September is Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Month in the United States. There are roughly 300,000 people with spinal cord injury and 18,000 new diagnoses each year in the country, according to the UAB National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

The National Institute of Health made a landmark move Tuesday, advancing the priority of research for people with disabilities and aligning more closely with CEDHARS vision of inclusion science.

Approximately 5.5 million Americans are wheelchair users, and data shows most have secondary health risks because of sedentary lifestyles. But, Dr. Jereme Wilroy is using the foundation built by Movement to Music, M2M, to combat the root of the problem.

On most days, the new operations manager at the SHP Research Collaborative can be found ensuring the printer is working properly or troubleshooting fixes to video conference rooms or dealing with other day-to-day HR matters. But, Dr. Meghan Mills can also be found tackling research to make the world more inclusive for her and her sidekick Arrow.

CEDHARS Senior Scientist and biomedical engineering Professor Dr. Alan Eberhardt paired with the MENTOR Coffee Club for his students to develop innovative assistive devices to address obstacles people with disabilities face in daily life.

Dr. Laurie Malone will continue the pursuit of her research passions, focusing on her longstanding interest in physical activity for underserved populations and more recently the use of scent detection dogs, in her new role as faculty in the School of Health Professions.

July was named Disability Pride Month to commemorate the Americans with Disabilities Act being signed into law by President George H.W. Bush on July 26, 1990. The ADA made it illegal to discriminate against people with disabilities, forced public buildings to be accessible for all and required employers to provide reasonable accommodations.

Our RecTech team welcomed partner Motivation to the Human Performance Lab at the WHARF on Friday, July 7, to show off and get feedback for the team’s prototype frame runner in development.

UAB continues to prioritize disability health research and expand its footprint in the growing field of inclusion science.

NCHPAD Predoc Julianne Clina transformed State of Slim to a format that can be utilized by people with disabilities – the emblem of what CEDHARS Director Dr. Jim Rimmer calls inclusion science.

Dr. Robin Lanzi, professor in the School of Public Health Department of Health Behavior and Psychology, is the CEDHARS core director for Community Engagement and NCHPAD national director for community engagement and translational sciences. She founded the UAB Mental Health Ambassadors Program as her Honors College Faculty Fellows initiative.

A series of “happy accidents” has set soon-to-be Dr. Julianne Clina on the exact path she was supposed to be on all along.

The 50th annual American Spinal Injury Association had a strong UAB flavor, prominently featuring multiple CEDHARS members at the gathering held from April 17-19 in Atlanta.

April 10, 2013, is a day I’ll never forget. It was opening day for the Barons at the new Regions Field in downtown Birmingham. It was a day my friend and avid baseball fan, Butch, had been looking forward to.

The recognitions are pouring in for CEDHARS Co-Director and Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Director of Research Dr. Yu-Ying Chen.

In 1987, President Ronald Reagan dedicated March as National Developmental Disabilities Month to increase awareness for Americans with developmental disabilities and to provide “both encouragement and the opportunities they need to lead productive lives and achieve their full potential.” This designation was part of a small but important shift in public perception and sparked grass-roots movements, which eventually led to landmark legislation, such as the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and later the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

The popular Mindfulness, Exercise and Nutrition to Optimize Resilience (MENTOR) is recruiting for its current waves of participants who learn the skills and gain the confidence to thrive as a person with disability living a wholistic life.