The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: what is at stake for physiatrists and the patients we serve

Affiliations

• ¹ Access Living, Chicago, IL, United States International Council on Disabilities, Washington, DC(∗).
• ² Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago-Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL(†).
• ³ Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN(‡).
• ⁴ Harvard Law School Project on Disability, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA(§).
• ⁵ Harvard Law School Project on Disability, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA; and William and Mary Law School, Williamsburg, VA(‖).
• ⁶ Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine(¶).
• ⁷ Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ; and Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ(#).
• ⁸ Medical Humanities and Bioethics, and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Schwab Rehabilitation Hospital, Chicago, IL(∗∗). Electronic address: [email protected].