CDRC Administration
Brian Rogers, MD
Director, Child Development and Rehabilibation Center
Dr. Rogers was formerly the Division Chief of Developmental Pediatrics and Rehabilitation, State University of New York at Buffalo and the Medical Director of the Robert Warner Rehabilitation Center, Children's Hospital of Buffalo. He received his medical degree from Loyola University's Stritch School of Medicine inMayfield, IL. and performed post-doctoral studies and a clinical fellowship in developmental pediatrics at John F Kennedy Institute for Handicapped Children, Johns Hopkins Hospital, in Baltimore, Maryland.
Melanie Fried-Oken, Ph.D, CCC/Sp
Interim Director, Oregon Institute on Disability and Development
Melanie Fried-Oken, Ph.D., CCC/Sp is a certified speech-language pathologist and Professor of Neurology, Pediatrics, Biomedical Engineering, and Otolaryngology at the Oregon Health & Science University. She presently serves as interim associate director of the CDRC, and leads the Oregon Institute on Disability & Development (OIDD) which is the OHSU University Center of Excellence in Disabilities (UCED).
Dr. Fried-Oken is a leading international clinician and researcher in the field of Augmentative and Alternative Communication, and provides expertise about assistive technology for persons with acquired disabilities who cannot use speech or writing for expression. She was associate editor of the international journal, Augmentative and Alternative Communication; adjunct faculty at Portland State University where she taught the AAC graduate course; and editor of the book Speaking Up and Spelling It Out, a collection of essays written by adults with disabilities using speech technology.
In the policy arena, Dr. Fried-Oken has worked in the past to add speech generating devices to the DME list for the Oregon Medicaid program, and is a member of the Medicare Implementation Team that changed the CME rulings so that speech generating devices are now provided to Medicare enrollees. She has a number of federal grants to research communication technology for persons with Alzheimer's disease, ALS and other neurodegenerative diseases, and the normally aging population. She staffs the Augmentative Communication Clinic through the Otolaryngology department at Oregon Health & Science University.
Jeffrey P Reha, CPA
Chief Financial Officer, Child Development and Rehabilibation Center
Jane Duck, RN
Assistant Director, CDRC Clinical Programs
Director of Nursing and Nurse Manager, CDRC Clinics
Ms. Duck received her Bachelor of Science degree at Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland OR, and is a Registered Nurse with the State of Oregon.
Marianne Taylor, RN
