Resume
Research Experience
- Served on the medical staff at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston for 16 years
- Chief Medical Officer at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital from 2000 onward
- Medical director of the stroke rehabilitation program at Spaulding
- Appointed Physiatrist-in-Chief at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in September 2008
- Leads rehabilitation medicine departments at both Columbia and Weill Cornell
Background
- Clinical and research interests focus on stroke rehabilitation
- Particularly emphasizes exercise as a treatment modality
- Explores robotic and other technologies to facilitate motor recovery post-stroke
- Serves as Professor and Chair of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
- Also Professor and Chairman of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College
- Currently Physiatrist-in-Chief at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
- Former faculty member at Harvard Medical School