Michelle Camicia

Michelle Camicia is the director of operations for Kaiser Foundation Rehabilitation Center at the Vallejo Medical Center. She is responsible for day-to-day operations of the center as well as outreach, quality, and regulatory oversight. Michelle is a past president of the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses. She has participated in numerous national and international advisory panels and committees related to professional nursing practice, rehabilitation, and healthcare reform and has published 13 peer-reviewed publications. Michelle currently serves on the National Institutes of Health National Advisory Board on Medical Rehabilitation Research, the National Quality Forum Neurology Standing Committee, and the editorial board of Rehabilitation Nursing, and she is chair-elect of the American Heart/Stroke Association International Stroke Conference State-of-the-Science Symposium. Michelle recently finished her doctorate in nursing and healthcare leadership program at The Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at the University of California, Davis. She is studying the predictive validity of the Preparedness Assessment for the Transition Home After Stroke (PATH-s), a novel instrument she developed with a colleague to assess stroke caregivers’ commitment and capacity for the caregiving role.