top of page

About us

​This website aims to help people with spinal cord injury (SCI), their caregivers, and health care team understand and make informed decisions about surgery options to improve arm and hand movement after a cervical SCI. It was created as part of a research project with partners at:

Research team members

  • Ida Fox

  • Catherine M. Curtin

  • Jana Dengler

  • Aimee James

  • Carie Kennedy

  • Deborah Kenney

  • Allison L’Hotta

  • Kelley Chadwick Mansker

  • Corinne Merrill

  • Christine Novak

  • Doug Ota

  • Mary Politi

  • Katherine White Stenson

  • John Steeves

  • Katharine Tam

Advisory board

A special thank you to our Advisory Board, whose personal and professional experience with spinal cord injury helped shape the decision aid. The Advisory Board included people throughout the United States:

  • Lisa Beck, APRN, CNS, MS

  • Pam Deale

  • Kim Anderson Erisman, PhD

  • Toby Huston, PhD

  • Lorna Kahn, BSPT, CHT

  • Bill Metzger

  • Joshua Miller

  • Mary Jane Mulcahey, PhD, OTR

  • Allan Peljovich MD, MPH 

  • Craig Trimmell

  • Kim Vonder Haar

EMSCI members

We are indebted to the European Multicenter Study about Spinal Cord Injury (EMSCI), a scholarly network of health centers that maintains an ongoing database of assessments of people with spinal cord injury over time. A special thank you to these EMSCI members who contributed to a scientific article on the retrospective data analysis that influenced the SCI outcomes in this decision aid:

  • Armin Curt, MD

  • Doris Maier, MD

  • Rainer Abel, MD, PhD

  • Norbert Weidner, MD, PhD

  • Rüdiger Rupp, Dr. Ing. 

  • Joan Vidal, MD

  • Jesus Benito, MD

  • Yorck-Bernhard Kalke, MD

Contact us

Fill out this form to send us any comments or questions:

Thanks for contacting us!

This work was supported by the Department of Defense - W81XWH-17-1-0285 Supporting Patient Decisions about Upper-Extremity Surgery in Cervical SCI (PI Ida K. Fox, MD). The contents of this work do not represent the views of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs or the United States Government.

bottom of page