Register now for the 14th Annual Kessler Foundation Wheelchair 10K! Part of the Fred D'Elia Ridgewood Run, it is one of the largest integrated races in the country as wheelchair athletes compete on the same course, at the same time, as the runners. The Wheelchair 10K will be held on Memorial Day, Monday, May 26th at Graydon Pool–201…
Kessler Foundation received the LADACIN Network’s Humanitarian Award at their 33rd Annual Rosebud Gala in Eatontown, NJ on March 15. “On behalf of Kessler Foundation, we are honored to receive LADACIN’s Humanitarian Award,” said Elaine E. Katz, senior vice president of Kessler Foundation, upon accepting the award. “Both…
West Orange, NJ. April 10, 2014. Kessler Foundation has acquired its second Ekso - the Ekso GT™ - the newest exoskeletal device from Ekso Bionics™. The Foundation is one of first to implement the Ekso GT, which will be studied solely in patients with hemiplegia who are less than three months post stroke. Ekso…
Featured on Dr. Jon Lieff’s Scientific American's MIND blog - the Kessler stroke team’s important research article on the relationship between the immune mechanisms and the nervous system:
Pasquale G. Frisina, Ann M. Kutlik, Anna M. Barrett. Left-Sided Brain Injury Associated With More Hospital-Acquired Infections…
Raymond Martin has participated in wheelchair sports since he was 5 years old and always had one goal in mind—to reach the Paralympics. Now 18, he spent the last year training extremely hard in order to qualify. Despite the demands of senior year and preparing to move to Illinois for college, he kept a strict 6-day per week training…
David decorates the cupcakes early in the morning to get ready for the day’s sales. Ally hops in the food truck and begins setting up—ten varieties of cupcakes, coffees and lattes, smoothies, pastries, cookies, brownies, and other mouth-watering creations. Tiffany goes out with the truck and fills customer orders. This is a typical…
Craig H. Neilsen Foundation Announces 2015 Psychosocial Research and Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Grants
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The Craig H. Neilsen Foundation is pleased to announce the opening of its 2015…
On March 30th, Daniel Mollino kicked off his cross-country journey on his bicycle to bring awareness to traumatic brain injury (TBI) and raise funds for Kessler Foundation. He began his ride, known as 'TBI to Victory,' at Kessler's West Orange campus.
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Elaine Katz, senior VP at Kessler Foundation, authored a Star Ledger guest editorial on February 13. Katz details factors contributing to progress in the hiring of Americans with Disabilities, and calls for a concerted effort to continue to expand…
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WEST ORANGE, N.J. – February 6, 2015. As 2015 begins, Americans with disabilities continue to make employment gains for the fourth consecutive month, according to…
