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Research Institute, National Rehabilitation Center for the Disabled, Namiki 4-1, Tokorozawa, Saitama 359, Japan... 

Geo-Centers, Inc., 222 Indiana University, 114 Inorganic Chemistiy Laboratory and Oxford Centre for Molecular Sciences, 105 Iowa State University, 283 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 345 Microsensor Systems, Inc., 157,222 Molecular Devices Corporation, 46 National Rehabilitation Center for the Disabled, 96 Northern Illinois University, 157 Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 318 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 65... 

Dr. Ohiin is presently a member of the American National Standards Institute Working Group S12A/VG11, a member of the Advisory Board to the National Research Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research for Veterans Affairs and a contract consultant to 3M Company. 

National Rehabilitation Information Center for Independence (NARIC) (2001). Rehabilitation research and training centers program descriptions, http //www.naric.com/search/pd. 

Born in 1965 in Utrecht, the Netherlands, Marjolein van der Meulen received her Bachelors degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987. Thereafter, she received her MS (1989) and PhD (1993) from Stanford University. She spent three years as a biomedical engineer at the Rehabilitation R D Center of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Palo Alto, CA. In 1996, Marjolein joined the faculty of Cornell University as an Assistant Professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. She is also an Assistant Scientist at the Hospital for Special Surgery, New York. She received a FIRST Award from the National Institutes of Health in 1995 and a Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation in 1999. Her scientific interests include skeletal mechanobiology and bone structural behavior. 

Helge Waal is director of the national center for Methadone Assisted Rehabilitation in Oslo. 

Dr. Mike Weinrich, Director of the National Center for Rehabilitation Research in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health... 

Note All terms with have been proposed by the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation and Research (NCMRR) of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). 

Pamianpour, M. and Marras, W.S. 1993. Development of clinical protocols based on ergonomics evaluation in response to American Disability Act (1992), In Rehabilitation Engineering Center Proposal to National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. 

The National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), part of the Department of Education, funds a set of Rehabilitation Engineering Research Centers (RERCs) and Research and Training Centers (RTCs). Each has a particular technical focus most include measurements and measurement issues. Contact NIDRR for a current listing of these centers. 

Sponsoring Agency. The Children s and Communities Mental Health Services Improvement Act of 1992 authorized the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families Program (ccmhp), which is administered by the Center for Mental Health Services/Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (samhsa). samhsa is mandated to improve the quality and availability of prevention, treatment, and rehabilitative services for mental illness and substance abuse in order to reduce illness, death, disability, and other societal cost caused by these problems (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2002). The Center for Mental Health Services (CMHs), placed within samhsa, aims to improve the availability and accessibility of high-quality care for people affected by or at risk for mental disorders and works toward the development of an effective community-based mental health infrastructure for the nation (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2002). 

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