Dr. John Kosciulek, Associate Professor, joined the program in August, 2000. He previously served as Director of the Rehabilitation Counseling Program at the University of Missouri-Columbia from 1994-2000. Dr. Kosciulek has over 15 years of experience as a counselor, educator, and researcher. He received his doctorate in Rehabilitation Counseling Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Kosciulek is a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor (CRC).

His continuing clinical and research interests include consumer direction in disability policy development and rehabilitation service delivery, rehabilitation process, consumer satisfaction with rehabilitation services, community rehabilitation organizations, family adaptation to brain injury, rehabilitation and disability theory and model development, and research methodology. Dr. Kosciulek is former a member of the Board of the American Rehabilitation Counseling Association where he served as Chair of the Council on Public Policy and Legislation. He is the Co-Editor of Rehabilitation Education, and serves on the Editorial Review Boards of the Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, Journal of Applied Rehabilitation Counseling, and Rehabilitation Psychology.

Dr. Kosciulek is a past recipient of a Mary E. Switzer Rehabilitation Research Fellowship (1996-97) from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research. He also was selected as a Mary E. Switzer Scholar by the National Rehabilitation Association and presented a key action paper at the 1999 Switzer Seminar on the topic of consumer direction in disability policy development. He has published over 40 articles and book chapters and has presented his research to a variety of state, national, and international professional groups. He is a recipient of the 2002 ARCA Research Award.