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web: chhs.gmu.edu/rehabscience

Faculty

Professors: Gerber (director, Center for the Study of Chronic Illness and Disability), Guccione (chair)

Associate Professors: Keyser

Assistant Professors: Weinstein, Winter

The Department of Rehabilitation Science (RHBS) is a department within the College of Health and Human Services (CHHS). The Institute of Medicine defines Rehabilitation Science as “a field of study that encompasses basic and applied aspects of the health sciences, social sciences, and engineering. It is the melding of knowledge from several disciplines to understand the fundamental nature of the enabling-disabling process.” Rehabilitation Science provides an interdisciplinary and comprehensive approach to physical, cognitive, and/or behavioral disability. The academic and research programs address the fundamentals of the disability model with elements of physiology, anatomy, mechanisms by which disability occurs in chronic illnesses, assessment of human performance and capacity, and exploration of environmental and human interventions that may contribute to prevention of disability and restoration of function.

Programs

• Rehabilitation Science Graduate Certificate

• Rehabilitation Science, PhD

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