Dr Thilo Kroll is a Senior Lecturer at Alliance for Self Care Research in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Dundee, Scotland, where he is establishing rehabilitation as an area of research.  Previously he was a Senior Research Associate at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington DC.  A research psychologist by background, he has also conducted health, rehabilitation and social research in Germany, Norway and the UK.

Dr Kroll has been working on disability, rehabilitation and outcomes for 15 years and has published widely. He has edited “Focus on Disability: Trends in Research and Application” (2008) and co-edited “Towards Best Practices for Surveying People with Disabilities” (2007). The latter book focuses on the need to make health and population surveys more inclusive, and to produce alternative formats for outcome and self-report measures for people with disabilities.

He is also interested in patient-centered rehabilitation outcome assessment, the benefits of exercise, patient-practitioner relationship characteristics, inappropriate service access to rehabilitation for socially marginalized populations, and opportunities for rehabilitation in dementia. Dr Kroll is currently collaborating with colleagues at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, DC on research related to the prevention of secondary conditions after spinal cord injury, and he is further working with colleagues in Scotland on community-based stroke outcome assessment.

 >> Dr Kroll's latest call for papers