Tamara Vos-Draper
Research Summary/Interests
Tamara (Tammy) Vos-Draper practiced clinically full-time for 24 years in adult rehabilitation practices, specifically in the area of spinal cord injury and disorders, wheelchair seating and mobility, and assistive technology. Her clinical practice experiences were in skilled nursing facilities, acute care, inpatient rehabilitation, and outpatient rehabilitation. Primary age groups included adult and older adults.
Dr. Vos-Draper conducts research to facilitate self-management of secondary conditions by wheelchair users. Her research on the use of real-time pressure mapping by wheelchair users to manage pressure injury prevention has been generously supported through federally funded grants since 2015. She maintains strong collaboration with Mayo Clinic and Minneapolis VA research teams to further develop, test, and implement a mobile seat interface pressure mapping system. Research interests include developing an assessment tool to measure self-efficacy around managing pressure and clinical integration of the pressure mapping system as an patient education strategy. Co-design with the end-user is a priority for developing the system and from the conception of this idea during her clinical practice at Mayo Clinic, input from wheelchair users has been critical. Part of Dr. Vos-Draper's research has included analysis of Actigraph sensor data collected over long periods of time in the home environment to objectively measure body movement in wheelchair users. Current projects include activity tracking in wheelchair users during routine activities of daily living and learning about how pressure injuries result from or interfere with participation in wheelchair-related sports or fitness activities.
Other areas of interest include adaptive CrossFit and fitness activities, specifically for wheelchair users. Strong interest in mind-body health and wellness through physical activity and daily routines/rituals.
Corey McGee
Research Summary/Interests
Dr. McGee is a musculoskeletal rehabilitation translational scientist whose clinically-relevant research objective is to improve the health and participation of persons with upper limb musculoskeletal disorders. In addition, as an educator of entry-level and post-professional occupational therapy learners, Dr. McGee’s scholarship of teaching and learning objective is to test the impact of didactic training on learner self-efficacy. His active and past research fall in the following domains:
- Characterizing and validating factors that predict responsiveness to a restorative intervention for persons with hand osteoarthritis
- Developing and validating procedures for assessing hand strength, thumb mobility, and thumb CMC OA related disability
- Studying rehabilitation intervention effectiveness for persons with forearm fragility fractures
- Advancing measurement of the upper limb strength and force requirements during select daily activities
- Studying entry-level student acute care ‘knowledge and skills’ self-efficacy
List of Published Work in NCBI MyBibliography and ORCID.
More information on Dr. McGee's scholarship can be found at http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Corey_Mcgee.
Faculty list and background.