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Marcel P. Dijkers, PhD, FACRM (he/him/his)

professor, PM&R
wayne state university
berkley, Michigan, United States

Marcel Dijkers studied sociology at the Catholic University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and at Wayne State University (WSU) in Detroit USA, obtaining the Ph.D. in 1978. He was director of Research at the Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan from 1981 to 1999, while also holding the position of Assistant, later Associate, Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) at WSU. He joined the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, in 1999, and became Research Professor, retiring in 2018. He rejoined the WSU faculty in 2015 as Professor of PM&R, becoming Adjunct Professor in 2020. Dr. Dijkers’ rehabilitation research interests have been very broad, as evidenced by his more than 170 published papers and chapters, and over 200 conference presentations. Areas of focus have been research methodology, traumatic brain injury (TBI) and spinal cord injury (SCI). He has researched the social and functional consequences of SCI and TBI, the delivery of health services for individuals with these diagnoses, as well as the determinants of community integration, quality of life and other outcomes. Research methodology interests have been the measurement of functioning and quality of life, treatment integrity in rehabilitation research, the classification and quantification of rehabilitative treatments, and evidence synthesis, especially systematic reviewing/meta-analysis for evidence-based practice. Dr. Dijkers has been the president of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, the world’s premier rehabilitation research organization, and is an active peer reviewer for a number of rehabilitation journals.

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