The Center for Study of Chronic Illness and Disability (CCID) has as its vision, to improve the lives of those with disability. The mission is to perform state of the art, quality research to study factors that lead to disability, its prevention, or amelioration; and to develop an academic program to train the next leaders in rehabilitation science.
The CCID will pursue the center’s objectives through assessment of existing and newly formed data bases designed to study prevalence of disability in selected chronic illnesses. The program of research is designed to determine mechanisms by which disability occurs in these chronic illnesses, who is at risk for severe disability, which treatments are effective in preventing or ameliorating disability and restoring function, and how they work. The data gathered will help determine which treatment trials are likely to prevent or ameliorate disability.
Dr. Lynn Gerber receives Habit of Excellence Award
Dr. Lynn Gerber, Director of the Center for the Study of Chronic Illness and Disability and Professor in the Department of Global and Community Health, has been selected as the recipient of the 2009 CHHS Habit of Excellence Award. Dr. Gerber is recognized for her cross academic unit team building and outstanding interdisciplinary programs of funded research. Her faculty colleagues also appreciate her leadership in building the curriculum to support emerging programs in rehabilitation science and her sustained department and college citizenship activities.
Mason and Inova Health System Forge New Research Collaboration
For more than nine years, researchers at Northern Virginia's Inova Health System and George Mason University have been collaborating on groundbreaking research on obesity, liver disease and cancer. Now, the two have taken the relationship one step further with the establishment of the Inova Life Sciences Research Collaboration Fund - GMU. Read more at the Mason Gazette.
Dr. Lynn Gerber to be Honored by Her Alma Mater
For extraordinary professional achievements and outstanding service to their communities, Dr. Lynn Gerber and four other Smith College alumnae will receive the Smith College Medal, an award presented each February on Rally Day. Read more about the award.