Elizabeth “Lisa” M. Hannold, PhD, is a Research Health Scientist at the RORC and serves as a Courtesy Lecturer with the Rehabilitation Counseling Department at the University of Florida’s College of Public Health and Health Professions. Dr. Hannold is a qualitative investigator with the RORC’s Focus 3, where her research has focused on the psychosocial impact of locomotor training (treadmill training with body weight support) on veterans with incomplete spinal cord injury.

Dr. Hannold has an MS degree in Counseling Psychology/Community Counseling from Gannon University (Erie PA), and earned her PhD in Rehabilitation Science from the University of Florida in 2004. Dr. Hannold was a recipient of a 2002-2003 Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Pre-Doctoral Associated Health Rehabilitation Research Fellowship. While a doctoral student, Dr. Hannold received a 2001 Graduate Student Teaching Award from the University of Florida’s Office of Research and Graduate Studies, and the 2003 John Muthard Research Award from the University of Florida’s College of Health Professions, Department of Rehabilitation Counseling.

Dr. Hannold holds memberships in several professional organizations, and has had articles published in Paraplegia News magazine and the Journal of Applied Rehabilitation Counseling. As a former independent living center program manager, Dr. Hannold has 12 years of experience meeting the peer support, independent living skills, and rehabilitation-to-community transition needs of persons with physical disabilities. Dr. Hannold currently serves as a Member of the Board of Directors for the Center for Independent Living of North Central Florida, and is a member of the Citizen’s Disability Advisory Council for the City of Gainesville, Office of Equal Opportunity.