Leadership
Paul Wehman, Ph.D.
Director
Dr. Wehman has served as the Director for the NIDRR funded Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Workplace Supports and Job Retention (VCU-RRTC) for 23 years. He has been part of a group of professionals, researchers, and advocates dedicated to the hiring, advancement, and retention of individuals with significant disabilities in competitive employment, with a concentration on services to persons with physical disabilities such as spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury and who are typically underrepresented populations in employment and rehabilitation.
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John Kregel, Ed.D.
Associate Director
Dr. Kregel is Professor of Special Education at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and Associate Director of the VCU Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Workplace Supports and Employment Retention (VCU-RRTC). He is currently directing research activities focusing on: New approaches to increasing employment retention of individuals with disabilities.
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Vicki Brooke, M. Ed.
Director of Training and Knowledge Translation
Valerie Brooke, M.Ed has been a faculty member at Virginia Commonwelth University (VCU) and working in the field of employment for people with significant disabilities for over twenty-five years. Ms. Brooke is the Director of Training at VCU's Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Workplace Supports and Job Retention funded by the NIDRR and serves as the Principal Investigator/Project Director for several personnel training grants promoting employment for people with disabilites.
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Katherine Inge, Ph.D., O.T.R.
Director of Instructional Technology
Dr. Inge has been with VCU-RRTC since 1982. Dr. Inge holds degrees in occupational therapy, special education, and educational leadership. She has co-authored several books, book chapters, journal articles, newsletters, and other training materials on employment for individuals with significant disabilities.
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Liz Getzel, M.A.
Director of Postsecondary Education Initiatives
Elizabeth Evans Getzel is the Director of Postsecondary Education Initiatives at Virginia Commonwealth University’ Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Workplace Supports and Job Retention, a grant funded center focusing on education and employment needs of individuals with disabilities.
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Howard Green, M.S.
Director of Employment Services
Mr. Green manages five job coaches and oversees the Business Connection employment program serving individuals with disabilities from the Virginia Department of Rehabilitative Services and Hunter McGuire Veterans Medical Center. Mr. Green has coordinated and provided a number of training activities across the country on business development for the employment of people with disabilities.
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Grant Revell, M.S., M.Ed.
Research Associate
Mr. Revell serves as a research associate at the Virginia Commonwealth University Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Workplace Supports and Job Retention (VCU RRTC). He has extensive experience in the areas of policy analysis and funding related to state level and national implementation of employment supports for individuals with significant disabilities.
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Pam Targett, M. Ed.
Director of Special Projects
Pam Targett is the Director of Special Projects as of October 2008. Previously, she served as Director of Employment Services for over 20 years, where she oversaw the day to day operations of the RRTC Supported Employment vendorship that serves approximately 70 individuals with disabilities (including veterans) each year.
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Michael West, Ph.D.
Director of Research
Dr. West has been with the RRTC for 22 years, has primarily been involved in research, evaluation, and policy analysis projects, with expertise in disability (i.e. MR, TBI, SCI), employment, vocational rehabilitation, and rehabilitation technology.
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