Research
CHRISTINA PAPADIMITRIOU, Ph.D.
Hello, I am Christina Papadimitriou, an Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences and Sociology at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, USA
Research Perspective
I conduct field-based human subject research using interdisciplinary training in sociology and health services research. All of my work is inter-professional and I collaborate with a diverse group of health professionals and scholars from a range of disciplines, such as occupational and physical therapy, psychology, economics, philosophy, nursing and medicine.
My 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 re-thinking disability-related medical rehabilitation. It is challenging and thought provoking. The lenses my associates and I use are inspired by phenomenology, social justice and equity, and disability studies.
My 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 re-thinking disability-related medical rehabilitation. It is challenging and thought provoking. The lenses my associates and I use are inspired by phenomenology, social justice and equity, and disability studies.
Among my most cited work, and the work that has drawn the most international attention, include these efforts to conceptually expand our understandings 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 (habituating having to do with who we are as opposed to habilitating which has to do only with what we can do).
Current Research Projects
1. Our Peers-Empowerment and Navigation Support Intervention (OP-ENS)
I have been the co-Principal Investigator of a 5-year National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR)-funded grant. This entailed developing, implementing, and evaluating a year-long peer health navigator intervention in Chicago, IL. The work, part of a center grant, focuses on the development of a peer health navigation intervention to help Medicaid beneficiaries with physical disabilities overcome barriers to preventative and primary care. This project is part of a center grant on health and function, which is housed at the Shirley Ryan Ability Lab (formerly The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago), Northwestern University, and University of Illinois, Chicago campus. Dr. Susan Magasi (at UIC) is the Principal Investigator.
I have been the co-Principal Investigator of a 5-year National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR)-funded grant. This entailed developing, implementing, and evaluating a year-long peer health navigator intervention in Chicago, IL. The work, part of a center grant, focuses on the development of a peer health navigation intervention to help Medicaid beneficiaries with physical disabilities overcome barriers to preventative and primary care. This project is part of a center grant on health and function, which is housed at the Shirley Ryan Ability Lab (formerly The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago), Northwestern University, and University of Illinois, Chicago campus. Dr. Susan Magasi (at UIC) is the Principal Investigator.
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Our Peers—Empowerment and Navigational Support (OP-ENS): Development of a Peer Health Navigator Intervention to Support Medicaid Beneficiaries With Physical Disabilities
Susan Magasi1, Christina Papadimitriou2, Judy Panko Reis3, Kimberly The1, Jennifer Thomas4, Laura VanPuymbrouck5 and Tom Wilson6
1Departments of Occupational Therapy and Disability Studies, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. 2Departments of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences and Sociology, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA. 3Disability Health Policy Analyst, Chicago, IL, USA. 4Formerly of Community Care Alliance of Illinois, Chicago IL, USA. 5Department of Occupational Therapy, Rush University, Chicago, IL, USA. 6Formerly of Access Living, Chicago, IL, USA.
Susan Magasi1, Christina Papadimitriou2, Judy Panko Reis3, Kimberly The1, Jennifer Thomas4, Laura VanPuymbrouck5 and Tom Wilson6
1Departments of Occupational Therapy and Disability Studies, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. 2Departments of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences and Sociology, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA. 3Disability Health Policy Analyst, Chicago, IL, USA. 4Formerly of Community Care Alliance of Illinois, Chicago IL, USA. 5Department of Occupational Therapy, Rush University, Chicago, IL, USA. 6Formerly of Access Living, Chicago, IL, USA.
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2. "No One Listens to Me”: Understanding Recovery When Patients Cannot Speak for Themselves
I was the co-lead for a 2-year project with the American Institute for Research with Dr. Trudy Mallinson on person-centered measurement. “No One Listens to Me”: Understanding Recovery When Patients Cannot Speak for Themselves. This project team of researchers and caregivers advanced knowledge of what constitutes meaningful recovery in unconscious adults who have experienced a traumatic brain injury. The team developed a patient- and caregiver-centered strategy for creating meaningful indicators of change during rehabilitation. The team designed indicators that promote transparent, shared decision-making by facilitating conversations between clinicians and caregivers on behalf of vulnerable patients who cannot advocate for themselves during recovery.
I was the co-lead for a 2-year project with the American Institute for Research with Dr. Trudy Mallinson on person-centered measurement. “No One Listens to Me”: Understanding Recovery When Patients Cannot Speak for Themselves. This project team of researchers and caregivers advanced knowledge of what constitutes meaningful recovery in unconscious adults who have experienced a traumatic brain injury. The team developed a patient- and caregiver-centered strategy for creating meaningful indicators of change during rehabilitation. The team designed indicators that promote transparent, shared decision-making by facilitating conversations between clinicians and caregivers on behalf of vulnerable patients who cannot advocate for themselves during recovery.
Family members caring for persons in disordered states of consciousness shared their experiences about caring for their loved ones while interacting with healthcare practitioners. The poster illustrates that caregivers and practitioners see different things when dealing with severe brain injury.
3. Clinicians' Sense-Making When Working With Patients in Disordered States of Consciousness Following Brain Injury
I am co-Investigator in a Joint Warfighter project lead by Dr. Theresa Bender Pape to study how rehabilitation clinicians understand neuro-behavioral change when working with their patients in disordered states of consciousness following brain injury.
I am co-Investigator in a Joint Warfighter project lead by Dr. Theresa Bender Pape to study how rehabilitation clinicians understand neuro-behavioral change when working with their patients in disordered states of consciousness following brain injury.
We presented this poster on clinical reasoning at the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine International Conference at the HILTON ANATOLE, 2201 North Stemmons Fwy, Dallas, TX 75207. To obtain a pdf copy of this poster, please click on the link below.
All the best, Christina Papadimitriou.
All the best, Christina Papadimitriou.
We thank the institutions who have helped us make the research on this poster possible.
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