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Biography
James S. Krause, Ph.D., is a distinguished university professor in the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) College of Health Professions (CHP) and is the director of the Center for Rehabilitation Research in Neurologic Conditions. He obtained his doctorate in counseling psychology from the Department of Psychology at the University of Minnesota in 1990 and spent 13 years at the Shepherd Center in Atlanta, Georgia, prior to spending the last 23 years at MUSC. He has served as principal investigator on multiple longitudinal studies funded by the National Institute for Disability Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), including the study of quality employment throughout the work lifecycle after spinal cord injury (SCI), multiple sclerosis, and stroke; opioid misuse after SCI, the 50-year SCI longitudinal aging study and the rehabilitation research and training center on aging and physical disability. He has authored nearly 300 articles in peer-reviewed journals.
Dr. Krause has received several prestigious research awards, including several awards for the outstanding manuscript in the previous year including those from the American Rehabilitation Counseling Association (1993, 2010); American Spinal Injury Association (2007), and the National Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers (NARRTC, 2008, 2011, 2018). In 2011, he received the National Medtronic Courage Award (2011), previously awarded to Sen. Bob Dole and Sen. Max Cleeland, actor and activist Christopher Reeve, and physicist Stephen Hawking; the NARRTC Distinguished Service Award (2012), the Charleston Regional Business Journal Health Care Hero Award (2019), Excellence Award for Outstanding Leadership in SCI&D Healthcare from the American Paraplegia Society (2021). More recently, in 2023, he was honored with the South Carolina Governor’s Award for Excellence in Scientific Research, given annually to one outstanding investigator in the state, across all scientific fields and research institutions. In 2025, he received the Distinguished Career Award from the Association for Rehabilitation, Research, Policy, and Education.