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Visiting Scholar Chosen for Barack Obama's Transition Team

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Susan Daniels, Visiting Scholar at the Kay Center for E-Health Research, has been chosen as co-chair to lead the transition team for Social Security for President-elect Obama. Barack Obama's transition team announced the appointment of Dr. Susan Daniels as a team leader for the Social Security Administration Team last week. Dr. Daniels has been a Visiting Scholar at the Kay Center for almost two years, helping to guide research endeavors and policy analysis in the area of technology use for disability determination.

Notes Kay Center Director and SISAT Associate Professor Tom Horan, "Susan is a major force in disability policy and I am sure she will play a critical role in ensuring that the new Administration attends to key issues confronting this major federal program".

From 1988 to 1991 Daniels served as Associate Commissioner in the Rehabilitation Services Administration in the U.S. Department of Education. From 1991 to 1994 she was Associate Commissioner of the Administration on Developmental Disabilities in the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Daniels served as Deputy Commissioner for Disability and Income Security Programs at the Social Security Administration from 1994-2000, where she helped pass The Ticket to Work and Work Incentive Improvement Act.

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