The Center for Study of Chronic Illness and Disability (CCID) has as its vision, to improve the lives of those with disability. The mission is to perform state of the art, quality research to study factors that lead to disability, its prevention, or amelioration; and to develop an academic program to train the next leaders in rehabilitation science.

The CCID will pursue the center’s objectives through assessment of existing and newly formed data bases designed to study prevalence of disability in selected chronic illnesses. The program of research is designed to determine mechanisms by which disability occurs in these chronic illnesses, who is at risk for severe disability, which treatments are effective in preventing or ameliorating disability and restoring function, and how they work. The data gathered will help determine which treatment trials are likely to prevent or ameliorate disability.

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Email us at ccidinfo@gmu.edu.