The SRAlab, formerly known as the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, is a world-class academic medical center focused on rehabilitative care. Ranked as the #1 Rehabilitation Hospital in the United States every year since 1991, the organization is revolutionizing the future of rehabilitative care and paving the way in developing a new category of medicine. 

The Shirley Ryan Ability Lab is a “translational” research hospital where clinicians, scientists, innovators, and technologists work together in the same space, applying research in real time to physical medicine and rehabilitation. It is the world’s first and only center of its kind. 

In 2007, Shirley Ryan Ability Lab decided that being ranked #1 worldwide was not enough. As a way to continue to push boundaries, SRAlab realized that there had to be a change in the way that the medical community thought and behaved relative to rehabilitation. In the past, clinicians and therapists worked with patients to adapt to their disability with focus on the process. Now, Shirley Ryan has shifted the model so that clinicians, therapists, and patients work to advance ability, focusing on the patient outcome. The model of care is designed to treat the whole patient—physically and mentally—as well as their caregivers. Along with rehabilitative care, the SRAlab is a worldwide leader in medical and rehabilitative research. Their research portfolio includes over 250 projects with an overall value of $125 Million USD. These efforts are led by over 30 PhD scientists, over 65 physicians, and hundreds of therapists of different specialties.

SRAlab is a global organization, and it shows. They see over 60,000 patients from 75 different countries. They are associated with several locations in the GCC region, including three in Saudi Arabia. 

For further information please visit www.sralab.org