Fong Chan, Ph.D.

Fong Chan, Ph.D., is the Norman L. and Barbara M. Berven Professor of Rehabilitation Psychology (Emeritus) in the Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) having served on the faculty since 1992, and has served as director of doctoral training, area chair of the rehabilitation psychology program, and chair of the department. He previously held positions as associate professor and director of the doctoral program in rehabilitation psychology at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and assistant professor and director of vocational assessment and evaluation services in the Department of Rehabilitation Counseling Psychology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. He is a licensed psychologist in the state of Wisconsin and a fellow in the American Psychological Association. Dr. Chan has 40 years of experience conducting rehabilitation counseling and psychology research in the topical areas of health promotion and psychosocial interventions, demand-side employment, transition and postsecondary education, evidence-based vocational rehabilitation practices, multicultural issues in rehabilitation, and research methodologies. He has published 475 refereed journal articles (Google scholar h-index 70; 40 is outstanding and 60 is truly exceptional; citations 18,336). For his research, Dr. Chan has received 12 American Rehabilitation Counseling Association (ARCA) Research Awards, the National Council on Rehabilitation Education (NCRE) Career in Rehabilitation Education Award, the ARCA James Garrett Distinguished Career in Rehabilitation Research Award, and the American Psychological Association (APA), Division of Rehabilitation Psychology, Tamara Dembo and Beatrice Wright Lecture Award. Dr. Chan is the editor of the Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, and editor of six textbooks: 1) Healthcare and Disability Case Management; 2) Case Management for Rehabilitation Health Professionals; 3) Counseling Theories and Techniques for Rehabilitation Health Professionals (2 editions); 4) Understanding Psychosocial Adjustment to Chronic Illness and Disability: A Handbook for Evidence-Based Practitioners in Rehabilitation; 5) Certified Rehabilitation Counselor Examination Preparation (3 editions); 6) Assessment in Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling; and 7) A Guide to the Professional Practice of Vocational Rehabilitation in Taiwan (written in Traditional Chinese). In addition, Dr. Chan has completed all his coursework and the annual review film for a Master of Fine Arts degree in film and video production (writer and director track) at the Columbia College-Chicago and he has served as a research and content development consultant for the Minority-Disability Alliance in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (MIND Alliance; Hunter College, funded by National Science Foundation), the Project Work Opportunity through Resource and Capacity Building (WORC; Southern University; funded by Rehabilitation Services Administration [RSA]), the Cooperative Learning and Individualized Mentoring to Build Self-Efficacy, Persistence, and Goal Attainment in African American College Students with Disabilities (CLAIM; Southern University funded by RSA), the STEMM-Up project (Michigan State University and Southern University funded by RSA), the Tech-Prep project (Virginia Commonwealth University funded by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research [NIDILRR), and the Tech-Jobs project (Illinois Institute of Technology funded by NIDILRR). He was the film director for “Practical Wisdom—Positive Rehabilitation Psychology and the Legacy of Beatrice Wright” (funded by NILDIRR); producer for “The Forerunners” (funded by the National Science Foundation/Hunter College-City University of New York and Winner of the Silver Hugo, in the Human Resources category, 2010 Chicago International Film Festival), “Impression Management Job Interview Training for People with Disabilities” (funded by NIDILRR), “The Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act” and “ADA Job Accommodations Act” funded by the Social Security Administration.