Joseph F. Rath, PhD

I am the project director of Rusk Rehabilitation’s Advanced Rehabilitation Research and Training (ARRT) Postdoctoral Fellowship, a National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR)–funded project designed to train psychology postdoctoral fellows to become independent clinical researchers, specifically in the areas of brain-related illness and injury and neuropsychological rehabilitation. Fellows collaborate on established projects and conduct independent research with an emphasis on study inception, manuscript writing, and grant applications. Fellows are actively involved in the work of Rusk Rehabilitation’s Neurorehabilitation Assessment and Intervention Laboratory, which focuses on the assessment and treatment of adults with neurocognitive disorders, including traumatic brain injury, stroke, and other conditions that impact the brain and cognitive functioning. Innovative neurorehabilitation intervention methods, especially those related to problem-solving and emotional self-regulation, are areas of interest, along with the impact of diversity and demographic factors on outcome, including race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, and socioeconomic status.