My Life as A Research Assistant at Kessler Foundation Series: Emma Kaplan on Seeing Real Rehabilitation Research Results

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*** Originally recorded on June 9, 2016, updated July 17, 2020.***

*** Emma is currently a Research Coordinator at the Center for Stroke Rehabilitation Research at Kessler Foundation (https://kesslerfoundation.org/research/stroke/rehabilitation).***

Welcome to our podcast series, “My Life As  A Research Assistant”.  This series is brought to you by Kessler Foundation, where we are changing the lives of people with disabilities.

Research assistants are on the front lines of our research studies—collecting data, conducting interviews, testing subjects—and are the face of Kessler Foundation to our research study participants. In 2020, Kessler Foundation was ranked among one of the Best Nonprofits to Work For and Best Places to Work in New Jersey (kesslerfoundation.org/press-release/…ork-new-jersey)!

Throughout this series, we’ll meet up with research assistants from our centers for mobility, spinal cord injury, stroke, traumatic brain injury, and neuroscience and neuropsychology who have been with the Foundation for over a year, and some who are now senior research assistants, nurses, medical students, graduate students, and post docs, and those who applied their experience to other professions.

In this episode, I met up with Emma Kaplan, a research coordinator in our Center for Stroke Rehabilitation Research. Emma begin working at Kessler Foundation in 2013 and was promoted to research coordinator in July 2019.

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This podcast was recorded on Friday, July 22, 2016 at 300 Executive Drive, West Orange, NJ and was edited and produced by Joan Banks-Smith, Creative Producer for Kessler Foundation.