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Dr. McNair has practiced occupational therapy for over fifteen years, primarily working in the inpatient rehabilitation setting, with specialization in spinal cord injury and complex medical rehabilitation. McNair serves as clinical faculty and the Doctoral Capstone Coordinator within the Rutgers University Department of Rehabilitation and Movement Sciences Occupational Therapy Doctorate program, and a per diem occupational therapist advanced clinical specialist at Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation in West Orange, NJ.
McNair is an active member and current co-chair of the American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) Education Committee and serves as the Secretary of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM) SCI Interdisciplinary Special Interest Group (ISIG). She has presented and published nationally and internationally on various topics over the last decade, particularly in the field of spinal cord injury and cancer rehabilitation, with a specific focus on systems-level data-driven decision making.
McNair’s current research focuses on development and implementation of community-based rehabilitation models for young adults with spinal cord injury to support the transition to adulthood.
M.S./B.S. OT, University at Buffalo (SUNY)
Ph.D., Seton Hall University
Dr. McNair’s research focuses on improving health system design and service delivery for individuals with complex, chronic conditions across rehabilitation and survivorship care contexts. Using health services research, implementation science, and mixed-methods approaches, her work examines patterns of care fragmentation, healthcare utilization, secondary health conditions, and patient-reported outcomes to inform scalable, system-level interventions.
A central area of her scholarship includes rehabilitation and community-based care for individuals with spinal cord injury and cancer, where she has evaluated post-acute service delivery, functional and quality-of-life outcomes, and community-based transition supports. Her research aims to advance scalable, data-informed models of post-acute and community-based care that improve continuity, equity, and long-term outcomes.
| Title | Sponsor | Effective Dates | Role |
| True Grit SCI: A Residential Summer Camp for Young Adults with Spinal Cord Injury to Support the Transition to Adulthood | Rutgers Health-IDEA: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Advocacy Innovation Grants | August 2024-July 2025 | Principle Investigator |
| Title | Authors | Where and When |
| Predicting Early Mortality in the Inpatient Cancer Rehabilitation Population Using Admission Performance Status Score | McNair, K; Dallman, A; Kirshblum, S; Stubblefield, M.D. | (2025) American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation; 10.1097/PHM.0000000000002754 |
| Using constructs from the Diffusion of Innovation theory and Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research to evaluate and implement rehabilitation technology in neurologic rehabilitation: A commentary | Bonner, S., & McNair, K. | (2025) Assistive Technology; doi:10.1080/10400435.2025.2498657 |
| Using Performance Status to Identify Risk of Acute Care Transfer in Inpatient Cancer Rehabilitation. | McNair, K., Botticello, A., & Stubblefield, M. D. | (2024) Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 105(5), 947–952. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2023.12.016 |
| Translation of Karnofsky Performance Status (KPS) for use in inpatient cancer rehabilitation | McNair, K., Zeitlin, D., Slivka, A. M., Lequerica, A. H., & Stubblefield, M. D. | (2023) PM&R, 15(1), 65–68. https://doi.org/10.1002/pmrj.12741 |
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