SCI Model Systems
The Model Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) System program, sponsored by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, U.S. Department of Education, supports innovative projects and research in the delivery, demonstration, and evaluation of medical, rehabilitation, vocational and other services to meet the needs of individuals with SCI.
NIDRR awards Model SCI System grants to institutions that are national leaders in medical research and patient care and provide the highest level of comprehensive specialty services, from the point of injury through rehabilitation and re-entry into full community life.
Each SCI Model System contributes to the national SCI database, participates in independent and collaborative research, and provides information and resources to individuals with SCI, their family and care givers, health care professionals and the general public.
Grants are awarded in five-year cycles. The current 2006-2011 cycle consists of 14 SCI Model System projects around the U.S. as well as one SCI data center that directs the collection, management and analysis of an ongoing national SCI database.
SCI Data Center
National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center
University of Alabama/Birmingham
http://www.uab.edu/NSCISC
SCI Model Systems
Alabama
National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center
University of Alabama/Birmingham
http://www.uab.edu/NSCISC
UAB Model Spinal Cord Injury Care System
University of Alabama/Birmingham.
http://www.spinalcord.uab.edu
Colorado
The Rocky Mountain Regional Spinal Injury System
Craig Hospital, Englewood, CO
http://www.craighospital.org/Research/SCIModelsystems.asp
District of Columbia
National Capital Spinal Cord Injury Model System
National Rehabilitation Hospital |MedStar Research Institute, Washington, DC
http://www.ncscims.org
Georgia
Georgia Regional Spinal Cord Injury Care System
Shepherd Center, Inc., Atlanta, GA
http://www.shepherd.org/research/model.asp
Illinois
Midwest Regional Spinal Cord Injury Care System (MRSCIS)
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
http://www.ric.org/research/centers/MidwestRegionalSpinalCordInjuryCareSystem/
MRSCICS.aspx
Massachusetts / Connecticut
New England Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center Network
Boston University Medical Center, Boston, MA
Gaylord Hospital, Wallingford, CT
http://www.bumc.bu.edu/Dept/Content.aspx?DepartmentID=91&PageID=332
Michigan
University of Michigan Model Spinal Cord Injury Care System
Ann Arbor, MI
http://www.med.umich.edu/pmr/modelsci/index.htm
New Jersey
Northern New Jersey Spinal Cord Injury System
Kessler Medical Rehabilitation Research and Education Corporation (KMRREC)
West Orange, NJ
http://www.kmrrec.org/nnjscis/
New York
Mount Sinai Spinal Cord Injury Model System
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
http://www.mssm.edu/rehab/spinal/
Ohio
Northeast Ohio Regional Spinal Cord Injury System
MetroHealth System, Cleveland, OH
http://www.metrohealth.org/body.cfm?id=2283
Pennsylvania
Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center of the Delaware Valley
Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
http://www.spinalcordcenter.org/
University of Pittsburgh Model Center on Spinal Cord Injury
Pittsburgh, PA
http://www.upmc-sci.org/
Texas
Texas Model Spinal Cord Injury System
The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research (TIRR)
Houston, TX
http://www.texasmscis.org
Washington
Northwest Regional Spinal Cord Injury System
University of Washington, Seattle WA
http://sci.washington.edu/
