Robotics in Rehabilitation

Guest Speaker:

Alberto Esquenazi, MD

Chairman, Department of PM&R; John Otto Haas Chair of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; Director, Sheer Gait and Motion Analysis Laboratory; Moss Rehab, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania

About our Speaker:

• Dr. Esquenazi is a member of Einstein Healthcare Network’s Board of Trustees. He is also a member of American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, American Society of Biomechanics Gait and Clinical Movement Analysis Society and the International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics.

• He is a professor of rehabilitation at Temple University School of Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University – Jefferson Medical College and Drexel University College of Medicine. He serves as director of the Annual Inter-City Gait and Orthotics course sponsored by the Temple/Moss Rehab physical medicine and rehabilitation residency training program.

• He was a member of the Task Force on Medical Rehabilitation Research for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine and AAPM&R.

• Dr. Esquenazi has been recognized several times by Philadelphia magazine as one of the region’s “Top Docs” and received the Distinguished clinician award from AAM&R and Pennsylvania Association of Rehabilitation Facilities.

• He has published many original papers, book chapters and has presented nationally and internationally on amputation, rehabilitation, orthosis, gait analysis and spasticity management. He’s an active researcher in technology and rehabilitation.

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