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Biographical Information
I. GENERAL INFORMATION
A. Personal
1. Carol A. Howland, B.A. (M.P.H. in progress)
2. June 19, 1953
B. Education
1. Undergraduate Education: Indiana University of Pennsylvania,
B.A. in English, cum laude, Minor in Psychology, 1971-1975
2. Graduate Education: Syracuse University, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication,
course work for M.A. in Literacy Communications, 1978-1979
3. Post-graduate Training: Certification, Core Curriculum Program in
Biomedical Communications, 1982-1984, Medical editing and writing
4. University of Texas School of Public Health, MPH in Health Services Organization in
progress
C. Academic Appointments
1. Current Baylor College of Medicine faculty position
Research Assistant Professor, July 1994-present, Department of Physical
Medicine and Rehabilitation
2. Previous faculty position: Research Instructor, July 1986-September 1987, January 1992--July 1994, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
3. Current courtesy faculty appointments at other institutions: none
D. Other advanced training/experience
1. Formal Sabbatical leave: none
2. Other specialized training following academic appointment
"A Common Sense Approach to Grant Getting", seminar
co-sponsored by University of Texas Houston Health Science Center,
Office of Research Services, and Baylor College of Medicine Office
of Research, December 1992
"Grant Writing: NIH and non-NIH Resource Options and Strategies
workshop", "Issues in Collaborative Writing", and "How to Write
Effective Test Questions", American Medical Writers Association
52nd Annual Conference, Houston, TX, November 1992
"Biomedical Research Design", "A Practical Guide to Statistical Inference",
Advanced Writing", and "Making Effective Presentations", workshops by
American Medical Writers Association 51st Annual Conference, Toronto,
Canada, October 1991
E. Other information
1. Honors or Awards
Award of Excellence, "Rehabilitation in Cancer: Preparing to go
Home Again", and Award of Merit, "Achievable Independence", Society
for Technical Communications International Technical Publications
Competition 198788
International Who's Who of Authors and Writers
2. Board eligibility/Certification
Certification, Core Curriculum Program in Biomedical Communications, 1982-1984, by
American Medical Writers Association, Medical editing and writing
3. Other non-academic positions
Associate Director, Center for Research on Women with Disabilities
Research Associate, Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Physical
Medicine & Rehabilitation, November 1991 - January 1992
Editor/Writer, Independent Living Research Utilization, The Institute for
Rehabilitation and Research, Houston, Texas, June 1990 - November 1991
Research Manager, Medical Writer, Cardiovascular Surgery of Texas,
Houston, Texas, February 1988 February 1990
President, The Word Clinic, December 1984 November 1991
Scientific Editor, Baylor College of Medicine, Physical Medicine &
Rehabilitation, Houston, TX, September 1982 July 1986
Scientific Editor, Baylor College of Medicine, Psychiatry, Houston, TX
December 1979 September 1982
Conference Coordinator (temporary), Syracuse University, Dept. of
Chemistry, Syracuse, NY, May 1979 July 1979
Editor, LITERACY ADVANCE, Laubach Literacy International and New Readers
Press, Syracuse, NY, January 1978 June 1979
Assistant Editor, ENVIRONMENTAL PERIODICALS BIBLIOGRAPHY, International
Academy, Environmental Studies Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, February 1977 - December
1977
Technical Proofreader, Scitran Translators, Montecito, CA, June 1976
February 1977
Advertising Graphic Artist, Contact Publishers, Indiana, PA, March 1975
March 1976
II. RESEARCH INFORMATION
A. Research Support
Project Director, Relationships Among Age at Onset, Adequacy of Personal
Assistance, Negative Health Incidents, and Health Care Utilization for Persons
with Physical Disabilities, 1993-1996, $136,205 annually, $299,037 total
direct budget, H133G30073
Project Coordinator/Research Instructor, Psychosocial Behaviors of Women with
Physical Disabilities, National Institutes of Health, National Center for
Medical Rehabilitation Research, 1992-1995, $179,995 annually, $589,942 total
direct budget, HD30166-01
Research Associate, Assessing Independent Living Center Staff Capabilities to
Deliver ADA Related Services, National Institute on Disability and
Rehabilitation Research, 1991-1994, $125,811 annually, $377,433 total direct
budget, H133G10150
Research Instructor, Assisting Community Based Rural Independent Living Centers,
National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, 1990-1993, $149,696 annually,
$449,088 total direct budget, H133A00015
Research Instructor, Research and Training Center on Improving Management
Effectiveness in Independent Living Centers, National Institute on Disability
and Rehabilitation Research, 1990-1995, $384,992 annually, $1,924,960 total
direct budget, H133B00008
Center-related research projects
-- Increasing the Ability of Independent Living Centers to Serve the Population
of African Americans with Disabilities (Research Associate/Coordinator)
-- Parameters of Independent Living Programs (Project Director/Research Instructor)
-- Operational Definition of Independence (Research Associate)
B. National Scientific Participation
1. Journal editorial boards, etc.
Editorial board, American Medical Writers Association Journal, 198687
Editorial board, Current Concepts in Rehabilitation Medicine, 1983-87
Editor, Literacy Advance, Laubach Literacy International, Syracuse, NY,
1978 - 1978
Assistant Editor, Environmental Periodicals Bibliography, Environmental
Studies Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, 1977 - 1978
2. Review panels: none
3. Professional societies
American Public Health Association: member, 1993 - present
Lupus Foundation of America, member, 1993 - present
American Medical Writers Association: President, Southwest Chapter, 198687; Board of
Directors, national, 198687, Southwest Chapter, 198489
Chair and Moderator, Southwest Miniconference, 1985; PresidentElect,
Southwest Chapter, 198586; Chair, Nominations Committee, 198586;
Program Chair, Southwest Chapter, 198384; Chair, Ad Hoc Chapter Promotion
Committee, 1984; member 1982 - present
Council of Biology Editors, member, 1982 - present
European Association of Science Editors, member, 1982 - 1989
Society for Scholarly Publishing, member, 1982 - 1987
Society for Technical Communications, senior member, 1981 - present
4. Invited lectures, presentations, research seminars
"Sexuality and health issues of women with physical disabilities", poster
presented at the 56th Annual Assembly of The American Academy of Physical Medicine
& Rehabilitation, October 11, 1994, Anaheim, CA
"Sexuality and women with physical disabilities", lecture to medical students,
Human Sexuality course, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, September 22, 1994
"Sexual information seeking, sexual activity, and health care access", presented as part of
symposium on Sexuality issues among women with physical disabilities, American
Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, Minneapolis, MN, June 11, 1994
"The health of women with physical disabilities: Setting a research agenda for the 90's",
Invited participant, sponsored by NIH, National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research,
Office for Research on Women's Health, Agency for Health Care Policy Research, &
National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, Bethesda, MD, May 9-11, 1994
"Women's health care advocacy: Challenge to change", Invited participant, workshop
sponsored by University of Houston Women's Studies Program, April 8, 1994
"Sexuality of women with physical disabilities", poster, American
Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Miami, FLA, November 1993
"Primary health care: Research and policy issues for women with systemic
lupus erythematosus", invited presentation to Lupus Foundation of America,
Texas Gulf Coast Chapter, Fort Bend County Support Group, June 1993.
"Women's health and primary care: A workshop to build a research and
policy agenda", Invited participant on "Access" panel sponsored by George
Washington University's Center for Health Policy Research, Leesburg, VA,
June 1993
Participant in seminar on "The women's health challenge: Take the
initiative", The Women's Studies Program, University of Houston, April 1993
"Research strategies for statistics: Survey data and qualitative research",
presented at the National Council on Disability's conference on "Furthering
the Goals of the Americans with Disabilities Act through Disability Policy
Research in the 1990s", Washington, D.C., December 1992
Invited participant in research meeting on "NARRTC vision, peer review, and
consumer involvement in research, training, and dissemination", National
Association of Rehabilitation Research and Centers Annual Meeting,
Washington, D.C., May 1992
Participant in National Council on Independent Living Annual Meeting,
Bethesda, MD, May 1992
"Responding to peer reviewers' comments from a position of strength" and
"Peer-reviewed journals that are receptive to rehabilitation research",
presented as part of seminar "Spotlight on Research: ILRU", The Institute
for Rehabilitation and Research, February 1991
Chair and Moderator, Freelance Plenary Session, American Medical Writers Association,
47th Annual Conference, Montreal, Quebec, October 1987
"Beyond word processing: Computer applications for medical writers",
Workshop presented at American Medical Writers Association, 46th Annual
Conference, San Francisco, CA, 1986
"Role of the author's editor", poster session, Symposium on Medical
Writing, Texas Medical Association 117th Annual Session, Fort Worth, TX,
May 1984
"Principles of medical writing", lecture to residents in Department of
Physical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, April 1984
C. Publications
1. Full papers
a. published in refereed journals
Howland, C.A., Walden, E., Nosek, M.A. (1993). Independent living
centers and private sector rehabilitationists: A dynamic partnership
for implementing the ADA. NARPPS Journal.
Nosek, M.A., Howland, C.A. (1993). Personal assistance services: The
hub of the policy wheel for community integration of people with severe
physical disabilities. Policy Studies Journal, 21, 789-800.
Nosek, M.A., Davidson, K., Zhu, Y., Howland, C.A. (1992).
Relationships between compliance with federal standards for independent
living centers and diversity and amount of funding. Rehabilitation
Counseling Bulletin, 35, 174-189.
Nosek, M.A., Zhu, Y., Howland, C.A. (1992). The evolution of
independent living programs. Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin,
35:190-199.
Nosek, M.A., Fuhrer, M.F., Howland, C.A. (1992). Independence among
people with disabilities. II. Personal Independence Profile.
Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 36, 21-36.
Nosek, M.A., Howland, C.A. (1992). The role of independent living
centers in delivering rehabilitation services to rural communities.
American Rehabilitation, 18, 2-6.
Garcia-Rinaldi, R., Brown, L., Bretz, G.E., Howland, C.A. (1990). Left
ventricular assistance with the centrifugal pump: management of the
patient with stunned myocardium. Boletin--Asociacion Medica de Puerto
Rico, 82, 292-297.
Garcia-Rinaldi, R., Bretz, G.E., Brown, L., Howland, C.A. (1990).
Flexible system for delivery of cardioplegia. Journal of Reperfusion.
Garcia-Rinaldi, R., Simmons, P., Salcedo, V., Howland, C.A. (1989). A technique for spot
application of fibrin glue during open heart operations. Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 47,
59-61.
Grabois, M., Dimitrijevic, M.R., Sharkey, P.C., Howland, C.A. (1988).
Comparison of the suppressive effects of vibration and electrical
stimulation on experimentally induced pain. The Pain Clinic, 2:33-39.
b. accepted or in press
Nosek, M.A., Rintala, D.H., Young, M.A., Foley, C.C., Howland, C.A., Bennett, J.L.
Sexual abuse of women with physical disabilities. Journal of Women's Health.
Nosek, M.A., Howland, C.A., Young, M.E., Georgiou, D., Rintala, D.H.,
Foley, C.C., Bennett, J.L., & Smith, Q. (in press). Wellness
models and sexuality among women with physical disabilities. Journal
of Applied Rehabilitation Counseling.
2. Other full papers
a. published without review by peer group
b. in preparation
Howland, C.A., Nosek, M.A., Rossi, C.D., & Walden, E. (in preparation).
Profiles of independent living centers that provide services to rural
areas.
Howland, C.A., & Nosek, M.A. (in preparation): Sexuality of women with
physical disabilities: A review of the literature.
3. Abstracts given during last three years
Garden, F., Howland, C.A., Nosek, M.A., & Rintala, D.H. (1994). Sexuality and health issues of
women with physical disabilities. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 75,
in press (Abstract).
Howland, C.A. (1994). Sexuality issues among women with physical disabilities: Sexual
information seeking, sexual activity, and health care access. Archives of Physical Medicine
and Rehabilitation,75, in press (Abstract).
Garden, F.H., Howland, C.A., & Nosek, M.A. (1993). Sexuality of women with physical disabilities. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 74:1270 (Abstract).
Rintala, D.H., Nosek, M.A., Bennett, J., Howland, C.A., Young, M.E., & Foley,
C.C. Sociosexual issues among women with physical disabilities. Presented
at the annual meeting of the American Association of Spinal Cord Injury
Psychologists and Social Workers, September 1993, Las Vegas, NV.
Nosek, M.A., Howland, C.A. (1993). Sexuality issues among women with
physical disabilities. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 74:659 (Abstract).
Mosley, D., James, B., Nosek, M.A., Howland, C.A. (1993). Increasing
the ability of independent living centers to serve the population of
African Americans with disabilities: Preliminary report of findings.
Presented by M. Nosek at panel on "Experiences in Research with
Historically Black Colleges and Universities at 15th Annual Meeting of
the National Association of Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers,
Washington, D.C., April 1993.
4. Books:
a. complete books written: none
b. books edited
Halstead, L.S., & Wiechers, D.O. (eds.), Paul, N.W., & Howland, C.A.
(co-eds.) (1987). Research and clinical aspects of the late effects of
poliomyelitis. White Plains, NY: March of Dimes Birth Defects
Foundation.
Fuhrer, M.J. (ed.), & Howland, C.A. (consult. ed.) (1987). Rehabilitation
outcomes: Analysis and measurement. Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes.
Halstead, L.S., Grabois, M., Howland, C.A. (eds.) (1985). Medical Rehabilitation, Raven
Press, New York.
Halstead, L.S., Wiechers, D.O. (eds.), & Howland, C.A. (consult. ed.)
(1985): Late Effects of Poliomyelitis, Symposia Foundation, Miami, FLA
Karacan, I. (ed.), & Howland, C.A. (assoc. ed.): (1981).
Psychophysiological Aspects of Sleep, Parkridge, N.J., Noyes Medical
c. book chapters written
5. Other works communicating research results to scientific colleagues
Howland, C.A. & Nosek, M.A. (1993). Studying sexuality among women with
physical disabilities. Women's Health Forum, 3, 3.
Howland, C.A., Nosek, M.A., Rossi, C.D., & Walden, E. (1993).
Profiles of independent living centers that provide services to rural
areas: Preliminary report. Houston: ILRU, pp. 1-9.
6. Other works communicating research results to general public
Howland, C.A., & Nosek, M.A. (1992). A profile of independent living centers.
Houston: ILRU, pp. 1-6.
Howland, C.A. (1987). Life on the rehabilitation unit brings achievable
independence. Journal of the Methodist Hospital, 26(2), pp. 3-13.
Howland, C.A. (1987). Rehabilitation in cancer: Preparing to go home
again. Journal of the Methodist Hospital, 26(1), 1987.
Howland, C.A. (1987). Controlling pain in body and mind. Journal of the
Methodist Hospital, 26(1), 1987.
III. TEACHING INFORMATION: none
IV. MEDICAL & SERVICE INFORMATION
A. Patient care responsibilities: none
B. Clinical laboratory responsibilities: none
C. National education or voluntary health organization participation:
Lupus Foundation of America, member
D. Administrative assignments
1. Department: Research Committee
2. College: none
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