James S. Krause, PhD holds the rank of Professor and serves as the Associate Dean for Clinical Research in the College of Health Professions at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). He serves as Director of the Program for Movement, Exercise, and Rehabilitation Research (PMERR) and Scientific Director of the South Carolina Spinal Cord Injury Research Fund which provides funding for basic, applied, and interdisciplinary studies of spinal cord injury (SCI). Dr. Krause also serves as Director of the newly established State of South Carolina Center for Interdisciplinary Spinal Cord Injury Research (CISCIR). He has served as principal investigator on 11 federal research grants of long-term outcomes and SCI. These include an ongoing 30-year longitudinal study of SCI, two longitudinal studies of vocational interests, two studies of secondary conditions, and 4 studies of mortality. He was also PI of two projects within the Model SCI Systems. Dr. Krause worked as a visiting scientist at the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) within the CDC, monitoring surveillance of TBI and SCI among population-based state health agencies. He previously held a VA scientist appointment and serves a consultant on the Georgia Model SCI Systems Center. Dr. Krause has served as first author on over 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals and has made over 100 presentations at national and international professional conferences. Dr. Krause, who has tetraplegia, is a member of the Board of Directors of the Disability Resource Center in Charleston and works closely with the director of the South Carolina Spinal Cord Injury Association in Columbia (the state capitol) helping to facilitate statewide dissemination of research. He has published extensively on SCI including the areas of employment, vocational interests, quality of life, health and secondary conditions, and risk for early mortality. As part of his research program, he has published a substantial portion of investigations of disparities in health behaviors, employment, and health outcomes among Caucasian, African-American, Latino, and Native American participants with SCI. |
