Clara Häfliger is PhD student in Health Sciences at the University of Lucerne and a project scientist in the Person-centered Health Care & Health Communication research group at Swiss Paraplegic Research. She has a Bachelor in speech and language therapy with eight years of clinical experience in intensive care, acute care and rehabilitation, specialized in spinal cord injury. In 2022 she completed her master's degree in health sciences at the University of Lucerne. In her PhD she focuses on challenges in person-centered communication in spinal cord injury rehabilitation with a focus on the role of interprofessional communication.

Jackie Chu is a physiotherapist with a Bachelor of Applied Science (Physiotherapy) and Master of Philosophy. She is a titled neurological physiotherapist with Australian Physiotherapy Association. Currently, she is a PhD candidate enrolled at University of Sydney, Australia. Her PhD thesis focuses on process evaluation embedded in randomised controlled trials. She has 20 years of clinical experiences in field of geriatric and neurological rehabilitation, with a strong interest in physiotherapy management of people with neurological conditions.

Dr. Tijn van Diemen is working as a Healthcare psychologist and researcher in the Sint Maartenskliniek in Nijmegen, the Netherlands since 2003. In 2020 he finished his PhD, the title of his theses: self-management, self-efficacy and secondary health conditions in people with spinal cord injury. This mix-methods study includes all 8 rehabilitation centres in the Netherlands with a specialization in spinal cord injury. After he completed his PhD in 2020 he is combining his research and clinical work in the Sint Maartenskliniek. Tijn is the chair of the workforce psychology of the Dutch and Famish Society of Spinal Cord Injury and member of the board. He is board member of ESPA and the ISCoS psychosocial SIG. He is co-chair of the ISCoS workforce for the psychological functioning extended dataset for people with SCI.

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Dr. Stolwijk is a rehabilitation physician at the Department of Rehabilitation, Physiotherapy Science & Sport and an Associate Professor at the Center of Excellence for Rehabilitation Medicine Utrecht. Specializing in spinal cord injury rehabilitation, her research focuses on enhancing social participation by addressing psychosocial issues and secondary complications like pain, neurogenic bowel, and mood disorders. She earned her PhD in 2009 and became an Associate Professor at UMCU in 2024. She has supervised numerous (PhD) students and medical residents, and (co)authored over 60 publications. Dr. Stolwijk chairs DuFSCoS and is member of the Scientific & Research Committee of ISCoS.