I completed MY Ph.D. in 2000 from the Graduate Program in Preventive Medicine and Community Health at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB). His dissertation was titled, """"""""Emotional well-being and subsequent health, functional ability and mortality in older non-Hispanic whites, blacks, and Mexican Americans."""""""" After completing his Ph.D., he served as a guest researcher at the National Institute on Aging (NIA), Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry in Bethesda, Maryland. While at the NIA he was an investigator on the Women's Health and Aging Study and the Hebrew Home Study of Impairments and Exercise. He has been assistant professor in the Division of Geriatrics at UTMB since July 2001, with joint faculty responsibilities in Rehabilitation Sciences. Career Goals. My long-term career goal is to develop an independently funded research program in the area of rehabilitation outcomes. He is particularly interested in how concepts such as quality of life are related to recovery of functional performance in persons with disability and chronic disease. His immediate and specific career objectives to achieve this goal are to 1) Develop an understanding of quality of life including satisfaction and participation as described in the medical rehabilitation and disability literature; 2) Establish a working knowledge of conceptual frameworks used to guide research in rehabilitation with a focus on the WHO ICF disablement model and the IOM's Enabling-Disabling Process; 3) Acquire expertise in data management; 4) Develop skills and expertise in item response theory (Rasch analysis) and use this knowledge to examine quality of life measures in injury, disability and chronic disease; 5) Publish research articles in high impact peer reviewed journals; 6) Present research outcomes at national interdisciplinary conferences; 7) Obtain grant funding (i.e., RO1 funding) as a principal investigator to conduct research in the areas of disability, recovery and quality of life; and 8) Develop a comprehensive understanding of issues associated with scientific integrity and the responsible conduct of research involving humans. Research Plan. The Research Plan includes examination of quality of life variables (satisfaction and participation) using a national database of rehabilitation outcomes.
The Specific Aims i nclude examining the psychometric characteristics of patient satisfaction and participation and the relationship between change in functional status and these variables.
| Berges, Ivonne-M; Kuo, Yong-Fang; Ottenbacher, Kenneth J et al. (2012) Recovery of functional status after stroke in a tri-ethnic population. PM R 4:290-5 |
| Ostir, Glenn V; Berges, Ivonne-M; Ottenbacher, Allison et al. (2011) Patterns of change in depression after stroke. J Am Geriatr Soc 59:314-20 |
| Berges, Ivonne-Marie; Seale, Gary; Ostir, Glenn V (2011) Positive affect and pain ratings in persons with stroke. Rehabil Psychol 56:52-7 |
| Masel, Meredith C; Ostir, Glenn V; Ottenbacher, Kenneth J (2010) Frailty, mortality, and health-related quality of life in older Mexican Americans. J Am Geriatr Soc 58:2149-53 |
| Seale, Gary S; Berges, Ivonne-Marie; Ottenbacher, Kenneth J et al. (2010) Change in positive emotion and recovery of functional status following stroke. Rehabil Psychol 55:33-9 |
| Fisher, Steve R; Ottenbacher, Kenneth J; Goodwin, James S et al. (2009) Chair rise ability and length of stay in hospitalized older adults. J Am Geriatr Soc 57:1938-40 |
| Ottenbacher, Kenneth J; Graham, James E; Al Snih, Soham et al. (2009) Mexican Americans and frailty: findings from the Hispanic established populations epidemiologic studies of the elderly. Am J Public Health 99:673-9 |
| Fisher, Steve; Ottenbacher, Kenneth J; Goodwin, James S et al. (2009) Short Physical Performance Battery in hospitalized older adults. Aging Clin Exp Res 21:445-52 |
| Temple, Richard O; Zgaljardic, Dennis J; Abreu, Beatriz C et al. (2009) Ecological validity of the neuropsychological assessment battery screening module in post-acute brain injury rehabilitation. Brain Inj 23:45-50 |
| Graham, James E; Ostir, Glenn V; Fisher, Steven R et al. (2008) Assessing walking speed in clinical research: a systematic review. J Eval Clin Pract 14:552-62 |
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