Health
Experience
June Isaacson Kailes, (www.jik.com) is a
Disability Policy Consultant and
the Associate Director and Adjunct Associate Professor at Center for
Disability and Health Policy at Western University. June focuses on health-related disability and
aging issues. She works as a contractor with a variety of health
facilities
and managed care organizations and government related projects as a
consultant,
trainer, writer, researcher, and policy analyst.
These
projects include Rehabilitation
Research
and Training Centers:
on Aging with a Disability, Managed Care and Disability, Health and
Wellness and
Disability, National Center of Physical Activity and Disability and the
Rehabilitation Engineering
Research Center on Accessible Medical
Instrumentation. She teaches
“Disability Competency in the Health Professions” an introduction
course to
disability issues for health professionals.
This course covers disability-related preferred etiquette practices,
disability demographics, medical and social models of disability,
quality of
life issues, culture, risk factors, secondary conditions, Americans
with Disabilities
Act compliance, and major disability-related public policy and ethical
issues.
She has delivered
hundreds of keynote addresses, workshops and seminars and
has over 100 publications on disability-related health, wellness and aging with
disability, and emergency
preparedness and
response. June
is a well-known and
respected disability rights advocate and consultant. Recognized
nationally and internationally,
she is one of the original national leaders in Independent Living
Movement.
jik@pacbell.net