Kathy Zebracki, PhD is Director of Psychology at Shriners Hospitals for Children, Chicago and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She received her Bachelor of Science from Northwestern University and a PhD in Clinical Psychology from Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Zebracki completed her psychology residency at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago (now Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago) and an NICHD-funded fellowship at Loyola University Chicago. Dr. Zebracki is the Editor-in-Chief of Topics in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation and an Associate Editor of Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology. She is on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine (AACPDM), the American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) and the Illinois Spina Bifida Association (ISBA).
Dr. Zebracki is an active clinician, researcher, and educator. Her primary clinical interests are in the care of children and adolescents with physical disabilities and chronic health conditions. Her research focus is in the area of psychosocial and medical outcomes of youth with spinal cord dysfunctions, including spinal cord injury and spina bifida. She also serves as a clinical and research mentor for clinical psychology doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows. Dr. Zebracki has authored over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles, 10 book chapters, and 115 presentations or posters at national and international meetings. Dr. Zebracki is a Co-Editor of the textbook: Spinal Cord Injury in the Child and Young Adult.