About the Staff
Carol Braunschweig, PhD, RD
Principal investigator of the ADAPT program and an assistant professor of nutrition in the Department of Human Nutrition and Dietetics at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
E-mail: braunsch@uic.ed
James Rimmer, PhD 
Co-investigator of the ADAPT program, and project drector of the Center on Health Promotion Research for Persons with Disabilities at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). He is also an associate professor in the Department of Disability and Human Development at UIC.
E-mail: jrimmer@uic.edu
David Chen, MD
Co-investigator of the ADAPT program and an assistant professor in the Department of Physical 
Medicine and Rehabilitation 
Northwestern University 
Medical School. 
He is also the director of the 
Spinal Cord Injury Program at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.
E-mail: dchen@rehabchicago.org

 
 
Kristin Tomey, MS, RT 
Project manager for the ADAPT program and research specialist at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
E-mail: ktomey@uic.edu
Amy Rauworth, MS, RCEP
Senior exercise physiologist for the ADAPT program.
E-mail: rauworth@uic.edu

 
 
 
 
Amy Hansen, RD
Special coordinator/ dietitian for the ADAPT program.
E-mail: amychansen@email.msn.com
Susan Nordmark, RD
Special coordinator/dietitian for the ADAPT program.
E-mail: nord@inil.com

 
Special thanks to Mike Fink for 
allowing the ADAPT staff to videotape 
and distribute his seated aerobics 
routine to our participants for free:
Francis Gando, BS
Exercise physiologist for the ADAPT program.
E-mail: fgando1@uic.edu
Mike Fink
Volunteer seated aerobics instructor at RIC.
E-mail: miross@aol.com

 
 

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