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W. Zev Rymer, MD, PhD

  • Vice President, Research
  • John G. Searle Chair in Rehabilitation Research
  • Director, Sensory Motor Performance Program
  • Professor, Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, NU
  • Professor, BME, McCormick School of Engineering, NU

Research Interests

W. Zev Rymer, MD, PhD is currently researching regulation of movement in normal and neurologically disordered human subjects; physiological effects of spinal cord injury; sources of altered motoneuronal and inter-neuronal responses in spinal segments below a partial or complete spinal cord transaction using electro-physiological; pharmacological and biomechanical techniques; rehabilitation robotics.

Awards & Recognition

Honors Graduate Medicine, 1962, University of Melbourne
Fogarty International Fellow NIH, 1971-1974, Laboratory of Neural Control, NINDS
Chairman, Engineering Foundation Conference "Biomechanics of Movement" Henniker, New Hampshire, June, 1979
Invited instructor, Cold Spring Harbour, June, 1980, 1981, 1982 Mammalian CNS course
Chairman, NIH Special Study Section (8 occasions)
Member, Musculoskeletal and Orthopedics Study Section, NIH, 1983-1987
Member, GRM Study Section: 1994-1998, Chair: 1999-2001
Member AIMBE, 2001
Honorary Life Member – American Physical Therapy Association

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