Kim Anderson-Erisman, PhD
The MetroHealth System
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland FES Center
Dr. Kim Anderson-Erisman is a Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the MetroHealth Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) School of Medicine. She has served on the Board of Directors (2017-2023) of the American Spinal Injury Association and multiple committees in the organization. She is currently the Director of the Northeast Ohio Regional Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Model System of Care. She was also a co-founder and the inaugural President of the North American Spinal Cord Injury Consortium. Her research has focused on translational investigations and bridging the gap between basic science, clinical science, and the public community living with SCI. Her training spans the spectrum of SCI research, from cellular and molecular studies to whole animal and behavioral studies, to human research. A large area of her research has focused on obtaining the perspective of people living with SCI on various aspects of research, including functional priorities, acceptable benefits and risks, preferences for interventions, and exercise participation to make research more relevant. For this work she was awarded the Craig H. Neilsen Visionary Prize in 2021 and elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2023. She has expertise in SCI outcome measures, multi-center clinical studies, and FDA-regulated Schwann cell transplantation clinical trials. At MetroHealth-CWRU she is continuing her leadership in clinical trials for SCI and further developing her independent research efforts addressing issues important to people living with SCI with an emphasis on partnerships to enhance the utility and meaningfulness of research.
