Beatrice Wright and Tamara Dembo Lecture on Psychosocial Aspects of Rehabilitation

The Dembo-Wright Award Lecture was founded in 2003 by the David and Minnie Meyerson Foundation to honor Dr. Tamara Dembo’s and Dr. Beatrice Wright’s landmark contributions to the psychosocial aspects of rehabilitation psychology. The Dembo-Wright lecture is presented annually at the mid-year Rehabilitation Psychology conference. The honorarium is funded by an annual grant from the Meyerson Foundation.

2003: Franklin Shontz, Ph.D., Rehabilitation Psychology: A Personological Approach

2004: Rhoda Olkin, Ph.D., Accessible Research with Parents with Disabilities and Their Teens

2005: Martha Banks, Ph.D., Full Attention to Whole Clients: Maximizing Success by Minimizing Assumptions

2006: Margaret Brown, Ph.D., Past and Present Meet in the RRTC on TBI Interventions

2007: Alice Marie Stevens, MS and Treven Pickett, Psy.D., Multi-trauma and TBI Rehabilitation: Injured Soldiers Returning from Iraq and Afghanistan

2008: Shari Wade, Ph.D., Working and Families to Improve the Social Sequelae of Traumatic Brain Injury: Where We Are and Where We Need to Go?

2009: Dana Dunn, Ph.D., Social Psychology of Disability

2010: Carol Ryff, Ph.D., The Relevance of Psychological Well-being to Disability and Rehabilitation

2011: Michele Rusin, Ph.D., ABPP, Psychological Intervention in Rehabilitation: The Lay of the Land

2012: David Patterson, Ph.D., ABPP, Every Theory Has a Range of Convenience

2013: Paul Kennedy, D.Phil., M.Sc., FBPsS., C.Psychol., Beyond Adversity: A Journey of a Scientist Practioner

2014: Susanne M. Bruyére, Ph.D., CRC, An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Workplace Factors Impacting Employment Outcomes for People with Disabilities

2015: Robert G. Frank, Ph.D., ABPP

2016: Fong Chan, Ph.D., CRC

2017: Allen W. Heinemann, Ph.D., ABPP (Rp)

2018: Linda Mona, Ph.D., Disability Culturally Competent Sexual Healthcare

2019: Dana Dunn, Ph.D., Tribute to Dr. Beatrice Wright

2020: Erin Andrews, Psy.D., ABPP (Rp), Nondisabled Adjustment to Disability: Rehabilitation Psychologists as Allies and Advocates

2021: Timothy Elliott, Lessons learned on the line in between: A scientist-practitioner looks back

2022: Charles “Chuck” Bombardier, Ph.D., ABPP (Rp), Why and How to Add Physical Activity Promotion to Your Treatment Toolbox