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Jeanne Zanca, PhD, MPT, FACRM
Senior Research Scientist
Kessler Foundation
West Orange, New Jersey

Jeanne Zanca, PhD, MPT, FACRM

Senior Research Scientist
Kessler Foundation
West Orange, New Jersey

COURSE

IC 28: Rehabilitation Treatment Spehttp://smic28/cification System (RTSS): Principles and Application in Rehabilitation Education, Research, and Clinical Practice >>

BIO

Jeanne M. Zanca, PhD, MPT is a Senior Research Scientist for Spinal Cord Injury Research at Kessler Foundation and Research Associate Professor at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. Dr. Zanca’s research focuses on secondary complications of spinal cord injury (SCI), with an emphasis on empowering interventions—programs or services that provide knowledge, skills, or technologies that enable people with SCI and their loved ones to take the actions needed in everyday life to prevent and manage complications of SCI. She has served as Principal Investigator on projects funded by the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation and New Jersey Commission on Spinal Cord Research to examine the feasibility and potential benefits of mind-body intervention programs for people with chronic pain post-SCI. Dr. Zanca has also served as Principal Investigator for two multi-site projects funded by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) and Department of the Army to improve the process of training caregivers for people with SCI and develop an assessment tool to measure competence in self-direction of care by persons with tetraplegia and caregiving skill performance by their caregivers. Since 2008, Dr. Zanca has contributed to the development of a system for specifying and classifying rehabilitation interventions with support from NIDILRR and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. Dr. Zanca is a co-investigator for the Northern New Jersey Spinal Cord Injury System. Dr. Zanca serves on the ACRM Board of Governors and is Immediate Past Chair of the Spinal Cord Injury Interdisciplinary Special Interest Group (SCI-ISIG) of ACRM. She is also Co-Chair of the SCI-ISIG Task Force on Secondary Complications and Aging, and a member of the Communications and Program Committees of ACRM. She is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Spinal Cord Injury Medicine.