Janet P. Niemeier, PhD, ABPP (RP)

Associate Professor, Director of Research
University of Alabama
Hoover, Alabama

Dr. Jan Niemeier has over 20 years of clinical care and translational research experience, scholarly and scientific contributions, and leadership of clinical and research activities and projects. Her research experience includes conduct of randomized controlled trials of treatments and development as well as testing of measures to assess and elucidate moderator and mediators of the effects of TBI, especially effects of post-TBI neuroendocrine changes and how these may influence post-traumatic brain injury recovery. She is a board-certified Rehabilitation Psychologist, licensed in three states, with over 20 years in the field of rehabilitation of persons who have TBI, SCI, stroke and other injury- or illness-related disabilities. Her career foci, external research support, and publications reflect her long-standing passion for persistently chasing after some of the most challenging and ongoing problems faced by U.S. and global rehabilitation scientists, providers, and consumers. She has received national awards for research and innovative neurobehavioral and cognitive treatments as well as for exploration of precision, accuracy, and sensitivity of measures allowing identification of covariates that moderate or mediate rehabilitation outcomes, i.e, sex and ethnicity. Her research has received state and federal grant support for the past 19 years. Dr. Niemeier has been principal investigator and project director for funded research projects with the National Institutes of Health (NIH/NICHD), NIDILRR, foundations, and state agencies. She provided grant or project leadership on three, five-year cycles of the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) TBI Model Systems and one SCI Model Systems site.

Presentation(s):

• What You Get Is Not Always What You See: Addressing Complexities of Rehabilitation Research Findings (820942)

  Wednesday, October 21, 2020
  2:15 PM – 3:30 PM EST

• Return to Driving Following Moderate-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: A TBI Model Systems Study (825071)

  Friday, October 23, 2020
  11:00 AM – 12:15 PM EST

• Sex and Gender Influences on Health and Function: What Rehabilitation Professionals Need to Know? (848688)

  Friday, October 23, 2020
  2:00 PM – 3:15 PM EST

• Combining Biomarker or Biometric Measures in Traumatic and Non-Traumatic Injury Studies to Improve Precision in Rehabilitation Research (820945)

  Saturday, October 24, 2020
  8:30 AM – 9:45 AM EST