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 is a research affiliate at the  and the Division of Disability Resources and Educational Services, or DRES, at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
He has served as the head coach of the University of Illinois wheelchair track and road racing team since 2005. In that time, his athletes have won 55 medals across four paralympic games while setting 14 world records on the track, and have won the Boston Marathon, London Marathon, Chicago Marathon, and New York City Marathon. In recognition of such performances, he has been named the USOC U.S. Paralympic Coach of the Year on three occasions.
Bleakney conducts research related to assistive technology and devices for individuals with disabilities as well as research related to human performance, specifically for athletes with disabilities. In 2017, he established the UIUC Human Performance and Mobility Maker Lab, an interdisciplinary lab where students with and without disabilities collaborate to design and develop assistive technology. As director of the HPML, Bleakney is faculty in the School of Art + Design at UIUC. He also co-directs the  at the Beckman Institute, which supports interdisciplinary design research centered around the lived experiences of people with disabilities.
He has also consulted with BMW, Toyota, Bridgestone Americas, and several Champaign-based start-ups in advancing racing wheelchair and other accessible technology research and development initiatives.
Education

M.S., print journalism, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2002
B.A., English literature, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000

Honors

2019: Chancellor's Academic Professional Excellence Award
2016: USPOC U.S. Paralympic Coach of the Year
2015: USOPC Doc Counsilman Science Award
2015: USPOC U.S. Paralympic Coach of the Year
2009: Alexis Wernsing Innovation Award
2007: USPOC U.S. Paralympic Coach of the Year

Flavia Andrade is an Associate Professor at the School of Social Work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She also holds appointments in the departments of Sociology and Kinesiology and Community Health. She is a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America.
What I Do

I am committed to advancing our understanding of health disparities at older ages. My hope is that everyone should age well and with good social support. My work aims to uncover factors that can help societies be more equitable and for individuals to reach better health outcomes. To do so, I use several datasets from many countries around the world, particularly Latin America and the United States.
Flavia Andrade is a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America. Prior to coming to UI, she was a postdoc at the University of Chicago at the Harris School of Public Policy.






Research Interests


Demography, Sociology, Public Health




Research Description


Dr. Andrade is exploring how transitions at the population level, such as demographic, socioeconomic, nutritional, and epidemiological, are influencing health across the life course. Currently, her work has been focusing on the health of adults and older adults in Latin America and the Caribbean and Latinos in the US. Her current research focuses on several outcomes: chronic conditions (e.g., diabetes and hypertension), quality of life, disability, cognition, mental health, oral health, and life expectancy.
Currently, she is involved in several international projects aimed at understanding the determinants of health disparities. The ultimate goal is to identify factors that are more malleable to changes through interventions and policies.




Education


PhD Sociology - University of Wisconsin-Madison
MS Population Health - University of Wisconsin-Madison
MA - Demography - Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Ba Economics - Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil




Additional Campus Affiliations


Professor, School of Social Work
Acting Director, Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies
Professor, Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies
Professor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Professor, Women & Gender in Global Perspectives
Affiliate, Center for Social and Behavioral Science
Selected Publications


Guimaraes, R., Andrade, F. C. D. (2020). Healthy life-expectancy and multimorbidity among older adults: do inequality and poverty matter? Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 104157.
Andrade, F. C. D., Corona, L. P., Duarte, Y. A. O. (2019) Educational differences in cognitive life expectancy among older adults in Brazil. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1-8.
Andrade, F. C. D. (2010). Measuring the impact of diabetes on life expectancy and disability-free life expectancy among older adults in Mexico. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 65B(3): 381-389.

Dr. Bonnielin Swenor is founder and director of the , and Endowed Professor for Disability Health and Justice at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. She has been an associate professor since June 2019, and holds various appointments at numerous centers across the university.
Her work uses data-driven approaches to transform societal views of disability, an approach best summarized by the Center motto: “shifting the paradigm from ‘living with a disability’ to ‘thriving with a disability.’” Her research has received attention from federal policy leaders at the White House, in Congress, and in multiple federal agencies, advising multiple institutions and organizations on disability equity and inclusion. She was named a Health Equity Champion by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

 has over two decades of educational and professional experience serving college students with disabilities.
Sears is the director of Beckwith Residential Support Services and the assistant director of academic services with the  at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She holds a Ph.D. in community health with a rehabilitation emphasis from the University of Illinois and is currently a research assistant professor of kinesiology and community health. She is a researcher at the . 
Key research areas

Factors impacting the career readiness of college students with disabilities
Empathic design methodology and its impacts on overall quality of life outcomes for everyday living
Emerging adulthood and disability identity

Notable Honors, Awards, Affiliations: 

University of Illinois Emerging Women Leaders - Nominee, 2022-2023
Outstanding BSW Field Education Instructor Award for the 2017-2018 academic year -  School of Social Work, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, April 2018
Recipient of the Robert Greenberg for Innovation Award - 4th Annual Career Opportunities for Students with Disabilities (COSD) conference, Northbrook, IL, November 2013
Recipient of the Chancellor’s Academic Professional Excellence (CAPE) Award, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, April 2012
Association of Higher Education & Disability (AHEAD)

Dr. Eric Patton is a professor of management at Saint Joseph's University. Dr. Patton's primary research interests include: neurodiversity, inclusion, mental health, workplace culture, workplace recruitment, disability, inclusion and accessibility in the workplace. Dr. Patton has been with Saint Joseph's since 2007. Before SJU, he was a lecturer at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec.