Dr. Bell is requesting renewal of his SRCS for an additional 5 years at which point Dr. Bell will have 54 years of VA service. During these 5 years he plans to continue to vigorously pursue his research, education, administrative and service mission. Dr. Bell has been involved in VA rehabilitation research for almost five decades. During that time, he has helped shape the field of vocational rehabilitation and cognitive remediation, and many of his innovations have been adopted into clinical practice and have inspired new research by investigators nationally and internationally. His research has focused on 1) vocational rehabilitation, 2) neurocognitive and social cognitive deficits and their relationships to functional impairments, 3) development of assessment instruments, 4) cognitive remediation, and 5) substance abuse rehabilitation. He has a consistent record of successful research with funding from VA HSR&D, VA RR&D, NIMH, NIDA, NIAAA, DoD and NSF. Currently, he is principal investigator of a VA RR&D MERIT grant, and a current NIAAA RO1 grant. He also has pending for this round a resubmission of a MERIT application to RR&D Engineering panel regarding continued development of the Automated Test of Embodied Cognition (ATEC), for which the VA has an international patent pending. He also has a CDMRP grant pending for ATEC evaluations for stages of multiple sclerosis. Dr. Bell also plans to continue his scientific contributions in terms of publications and presentations. During his current SRCS funding, he has published over 50 peer reviewed articles, 2 book chapters, 2 new testing instrument and their manuals (Activate Test of Embodied Cognition (for children) and the Automated Test of Embodied Cognition for adults) and despite the pandemic has given more than 20 scientific presentations. Two of Dr. Bell’s contributions to assessment are used nationally and internationally in psychiatric clinical trials and are regarded as the “gold standard” for measuring work performance and for measuring social cognition. One indication of his status as a leader in psychiatric rehabilitation is that he was selected by the World Health Organization to be one of three USA psychiatric rehabilitation experts for their 24- member international panel for the development of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF-11) and was then selected to be one of 4 team leaders on the project. Dr. Bell is an accomplished educator and mentor with more than 55 mentees during his career, many of whom have gone on to independent research careers. Fifteen are currently working for the VA. In 2001, Dr. Bell was awarded a prestigious training grant (NIMH T32) to provide training in functional disability interventions. This award was twice competitively renewed because of its significant impact on bringing young and promising investigators into the field of rehabilitation. He plans to continue to train researchers interested in rehabilitation thr...