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Podcast: INside the OUTcomes: A Rehabilitation Research Podcast
Episode: Loneliness and Spinal Cord Injury
Description: On this episode of INside the OUTcomes, we’ll be talking about loneliness and spinal cord injury. My guests are Sherri LaVela, PhD, MPH, a research health scientist, and Marissa Wirth, lead social science program coordinator, both in the Center of Innovation for Complex Chronic Healthcare in the Department of Veterans Affairs. Dr. LaVela is also a research professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Northwestern University. Dr. LaVela and Marissa conducted extensive research about how loneliness affects people with SCI and have uncovered factors that contribute to and alleviate loneliness in this population. They have a...