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Fong Chan Ph.D.

Fong Chan Ph.D.

Fong Chan, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin-Madison) is the Norman L. and Barbara M. Berven Professor of Rehabilitation Psychology (Emeritus) in the Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison). Before joining the faculty at UW–Madison in 1992, he was on the faculty in the Department of Psychology at the Illinois Institute of Technology for four years (1988-1992) and the Department of Rehabilitation Counseling Psychology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center for five years (1983-1988). Dr. Chan has more than 35 years of experience conducting applied rehabilitation research in the topical areas of psychosocial interventions, demand-side employment, transition and postsecondary education, evidence-based vocational rehabilitation practices, multicultural issues in rehabilitation, and research methodologies. He has published over 400 refereed journal articles and book chapters (h-index 57; 40 is outstanding and 60 is truly exceptional). For his research, Dr. Chan has received 12 American Rehabilitation Counseling Association Research Awards, the National Council on Rehabilitation Education (NCRE) Career in Rehabilitation Education Award, the American Rehabilitation Counseling Association (ARCA) James Garrett Distinguished Career in Rehabilitation Research Award, and the American Psychological Association (APA), Division of Rehabilitation Psychology, Tamara Dembo and Beatrice Wright Lecture Award. Dr. Chan is the editor of the Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, and editor of six textbooks: 1) Healthcare and Disability Case Management; 2) Case Management for Rehabilitation Health Professionals; 3) Counseling Theories and Techniques for Rehabilitation Health Professionals; 4) Understanding Psychosocial Adjustment to Chronic Illness and Disability: A Handbook for Evidence-Based Practitioners in Rehabilitation; 5) Certified Rehabilitation Counselor Examination Preparation: A Concise Guide to the Foundations of Rehabilitation Counseling; and 6) Assessment in Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling. Germane to this proposed project, Dr. Chan has served as a research and content development consultant for the Minority-Disability Alliance in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (MIND Alliance; Hunter College), the Project Work Opportunity through Resource and Capacity Building (WORC; Southern University), and the Cooperative Learning and Individualized Mentoring to Build Self-Efficacy, Persistence, and Goal Attainment in African American College Students with Disabilities (CLAIM; Southern University) projects that use the SCCT framework to design goal persistence interventions for Black college students with disabilities to complete their degrees and find rewarding jobs in professional occupations. He is the director for “Practical Wisdom—Positive Rehabilitation Psychology and the Legacy of Beatrice Wright” (funded by NILDIRR); producer for “The Forerunners” (funded by NSF/Hunter College-City University of New York), “Impression Management Job Interview for People with Disabilities” (funded by NIDILRR), “The Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act” and “ADA Job Accommodations Act” funded by the Social Security Administration Medicaid Infrastructure Grant.


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