Where Our Vision Will Take Us

Today, we are evolving our culture to new levels of collaboration and inquiry as we attract top talent. We accomplish this as we educate clinicians globally and elevate the field of rehabilitation through our leadership, increasing research capabilities and scope.

To improve patient treatment plans, we are in the early stages of incorporating promising experimental interventions. We use patient-specific data in real time to better inform each patient’s treatment. All while serving more patients than ever before.

Now, our Vision challenges us to do more. Our goal is to attract and retain leading scientists and clinicians doing work of critical importance to our patient populations. This will support our intention of shortening the time frame for scientific discovery.

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Donor Impact Stories

John and Kathy Schreiber

John and Kathy Schreiber Give $15 Million to Shirley Ryan ÌÀÍ·Ìõapp

The gift has been directed to Shirley Ryan ÌÀÍ·Ìõapp’s Accelerate Ability fundraising campaign. Specifically, it will fund innovative care and game-changing research targeted to patients with diverse brain conditions.

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Maya Yuen

New Robert R. McCormick Foundation Center for Hope and Equity to Be Led by Maya Yuen

Meet Maya Yuen, manager of the newly created Robert R. McCormick Foundation Center for Hope and Equity.

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Impact Report 2022

2022 Impact Report

On behalf of everyone at Shirley Ryan ÌÀÍ·Ìõapp, we thank you for your support. We invite you to take a look at our FY22 Impact Report below.

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Accelerate Ability Campaign in Honor of Joanne C. Smith, MD

​​Physician  •  Champion   •  Leader •  Visionary  •  Friend

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Opportunities to Support

We see meaningful opportunities to accelerate what’s already in progress, build on everything we’ve done, and continue discovering and innovating ways to make our patients better. To do so, we need access to resources that are aren’t available to us today. Following are just a few examples of how we will deploy funds raised by this campaign.

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Cutting-Edge Research

By integrating medicine and science, we can fuel better, faster patient recoveries. Our work is not finished — in fact, we’re just getting started. We invite you to read a selection of case studies highlighting our cutting-edge research.

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Reframing a Problem as a Solution

Exploiting Spasticity's Promise: Biomarker Points to Recovery in Spinal Cord Injury.

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Mitra Lavasani

Scoring Start-up Funding for Breakthrough Research

Regrowing cartilage to turn back the body’s aging clock lends hope that osteoarthritis can be reversed.

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Patient receiving therapy

Accelerating Next-gen Rehabilitation Technology

GEMS is a lightweight, robotic hip exoskeleton that provides walking and balance assistance to people recovering from stroke and older adults.

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Inside the Accelerate Ability Campaign

See how Accelerate Ability builds on successes from our first five years and the critical areas it will focus on.