Rehabilitation Core

Preclinical and clinical exploration of rehabilitation science and clinical practice incorporating interdisciplinary rehabilitation to facilitate improvements in recovery or function of all aspects of injury, including strength and balance, cognition, language, and activities.

	Researcher/Clinician Name	Title	Department	Specialties
	Russell Bauer, PhD, ABPP	Professor	Department of Clinical & Health Psychology	Clinical neuropsychology, traumatic brain injury
	Gabriel Bonnell, MD	Assistant Professor	Department of Neurology	Acute management of ischemic stroke
	Prodip Bose, MD, PhD	Professor & Director	Department of Neurology	Spasticity after TBI/SCI
	David Clark, ScD	Associate Professor	Department of Aging & Geriatric Research	Enhancing walking function in people with neurological impairments, Impact of age on functional outcomes post-injury
	James R Clugston, MD, MS, FAMSSM, CAQSM	Clinical Associate Professor and Sports Medicine Fellowship Director	Department of Community Health and Family Medicine	Sport-related concussion, sports medicine
	Emily Fox, PT, PhD	Associate Professor & Director of Neuromuscular Research, Brooks Rehabilitation	Department of Physical Therapy	Control and recovery following neurologic injury and disease
	Carolyn Geis, MD	Associate Professor	Department of Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation	Traumatic brain injury rehabilitation, post-stroke and brain injury spasticity
	Suman Ghosh MD, MPA	Clinical Assistant Professor	Department of Pediatrics	Pediatric brain injury, stroke, neurocritical care, neuronal rehabilitation, spasticity, and cerebral palsy
	Elisa Gonzalez-Rothi, DPT, PhD	Research Assistant Professor	Department of Physical Therapy	Respiratory plasticity induced by neurostimulation and intermittent hypoxia; spinal cord injury; sleep apnea & pathogenic intermittent hypoxia after SCI
	Daniel C Herman, MD, PhD	Assistant Professor	Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation	Sports biomechanics related to performance and injury risk, the effect of baseline neurocognition and concussions on biomechanics and injury risk
	Michael Jaffee, MD, FAAN, FANA	Professor, Vice Chair of Neurology, and Center Director	Department of Neurology	Traumatic brain injury, concussion, sleep disorders
	Alison Kraus, PT, DPT, NCS	Neurologic Physical Therapist	Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases	Sports-related concussion, TBI, anoxic and brain injury rehabilitation, impact of age on functional outcomes post-injury
	Carolina Maciel, MD, MSCR	Clinical Assistant Professor	Department of Neurology	Cognitive function after cardiac arrest/recovery, neurocritical care, traumatic brain injury
	Lisa Merck, MD, MPH, FACEP	Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Research, Emergency Medicine	Department of Emergency Medicine	Neurological emergencies, critical care, resuscitation, and the COVID pandemic response
	Gordon Mitchell, PhD	Preeminence Professor and Director of the UF BREATHE Center	Department of Physical Therapy	Intermittent hypoxia induced respiratory plasticity, therapeutic intermittent hypoxia in spinal injury and ALS
	Gregory J A Murad, MD	Clinical Associate Professor and Residency Program Director	Department of Neurosurgery	Neurosurgery, metastatic brain tumor
	Stephen E Nadeau, MD	Professor	Department of Neurology	Application of parallel distributed processing theory to understand the neural basis of cognitive function and its breakdown with brain injury, rehabilitation strategies
	Dorian K Rose, PhD	Research Associate Professor	Department of Physical Therapy	Neuroplasticity and motor learning intervention strategies for rehabilitation of post-stroke motor control deficits
	Alexis Simpkins, MD, PhD, MSCR, FAHA	Assistant Professor	Department of Neurology	Advanced MRI and stroke, blood biomarkers and stroke, protective and preventive measures of cerebrovascular disorders, stroke recovery
	Aliyah Snyder, PhD	Assistant Professor	Department of Clinical & Health Psychology	Sports concussion, CTE
	David Vaillancourt, PhD	Professor & Chair	Department of Applied Physiology and Kinesiology	Brain regulation of movement with focus on voluntary and involuntary motor disorders
	Lisa Warren, MHS, OTR/L	Site Manager	UF Health Rehab at Fixel Center for Neurological Diseases	Upper extremity cooling in Parkinson'ss disease patients; therapy for Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, dystonia, essential tremor and other neurological disorders
	Christina A Wilson, MD, PhD	Interim Chief, Vascular Neurology Division; Associate Chair Of Education; Neurology Residency Program Director	Department of Neurology	Vascular neurology, acute ischemic stroke, aneurysm, stroke risk factors and prevention
	Jason Zaremski, MD	Clinical Associate Professor and Co-Medical Director of the High School Outreach Program	Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation	Sports-related concussions, regenerative therapeutics, throwing-related injuries