What is precision rehabilitation, and why do we need it?
Precision medicine is defined as clinical care that is designed to optimize efficiency or therapeutic benefit for particular groups of patients. Over the last decade, precision medicine has revolutionized several medical fields (e.g., oncology, cardiology) by leveraging advances in genomics and acute disease management to provide increasingly personalized medical care.
Precision rehabilitation shares the broader precision medicine goal of aiming to provide the right intervention, at the right time, in the right setting, for the right person. However, rehabilitation is differentiated from other fields of medicine in that it is centered around the longitudinal assessment and treatment of whole-person function.
By bringing the philosophy of precision medicine to rehabilitation, the Precise Center will leverage the domains of whole-person function - physical, cognitive, and psychosocial - to generate multimodal datasets that facilitate identification of clinically meaningful subgroups based on an individual's holistic functional status.
The Precise Center will provide a blueprint and necessary tools to help clinicians and researchers working across the lifespan move from a one size fits all model of care toward a model of precision rehabilitation.
Who we are
Leadership
Our Team
Lauren
Allen
Caitlin
Banks
Grace
Bellinger
Ciprian
Crainiceanu
Kelly
Daley
Calliope
Holingue
Tricia
Kirkhart
Kevin
McLaughlin
Radhika
Raghunathan
Rachel
Reetzke
Heather
Riordan
Nathan
Stenberg
Jan
Stenum
Adrian
Svingos
Rini
Varghese
Stakeholder Engagement Council
The Stakeholder Engagement Council guides The Precise Center's work toward getting the right treatment, to the right person, at the right time.
It is made up of clinicians, researchers, and people who use rehabilitation services to make sure that lived experience is informing research and resources,
Council members help shape decisions about research priorities, tools we develop, and how we share findings. Members are compensated for their time and expertise, and we are committed to making all meetings and materials accessible.
The PRECISE Center's Community Engagement consists of:
Why It Matters
We believe people with lived experience should be partners in research—not just participants. These experiences and insights help shape research that makes a real difference in rehabilitation care. They help answer questions like what do patients, clinicians, and families need to thrive? How can we strengthen collaboration to provide better care across people's lives?
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