The theme of the Tampa VA Research Center of Excellence is maximizing rehabilitation outcomes. Research focuses on veterans with disabilities, service men and women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, and older adults. Goals
Facility ResourcesThe center is located in a new 30,000 sq ft building. In the past 10 years, we developed a comprehensive network of nine rehabilitation research labs including:
Rehabilitation at the Tampa VAThe Tampa VA has one of the largest and most respected rehabilitation programs in the VHA. These clinical programs offer access to a large patient population for research. Clinicians from these areas serve as PI and Co-I on studies and the clinical programs serve as feeders and sites for our research trainee programs. The SCI and Rehabilitation Services are supported by the USF Rehabilitation Residency Program, SCI Medicine Fellowship, and a Post-Residency Advanced Fellowship Program in SCI Medicine. Tampa’s Comprehensive Rehabilitation Program is the only VA facility with CARF accreditation in five programs, and it has been recognized as a Clinical Program of Excellence for over 12 years. We are the only VA in the country whose program evaluation system has been benchmarked with private sector rehabilitation programs for 20+ years. Some of the programs include:
The University of South Florida is the 9th largest university in the country, and designated as a Research Level I institution. We have collaborations with faculty and students from the Colleges of Medicine, Physical Therapy, Public Health, Nursing, Behavioral & Community Science, Business, Education and Psychology and Engineering. Research ConsortiaWe lead four research consortia:
with two new consortia in development:
Each consortium is composed of expert clinicians and researchers from VA, DoD, and academia. A research agenda is developed, and members collaborate to conduct and disseminate research. We are also one of the nine VA sites funded through the Consortium for Healthcare Informatics Research. The vision of the CHIR is to conduct research that will allow computer algorithms to replace manual chart review as the preferred method to unlock the information contained within text-based data in the electronic health record. To Contact Us: Director: Gail Powell-Cope, PhD, RN, FAAN To download a fact sheet about out Center Staff click here. For further information on the activities of VA Research:Health Services Research and Development Service Veterans Health Administration Research and Development
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