Deborah L. Wilkerson Early Career Award 2023 Recipient
The Awards Committee is pleased to honor Amit Kumar, BPHT, MPH, PhD with the 2023 Deborah L. Wilkerson Early Career Award supported by CARF International. This award recognizes the significant contributions he has made to rehabilitation research during her early career work.
Dr. Kumar will be presented the Wilkerson Award at the ACRM 2023 Annual Conference.
ABOUT AMIT KUMAR
Amit Kumar is a health services researcher with graduate training in population health. Dr. Kumar received his MPH and PhD in Population Health from the University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship in health services research at Brown University School of Public Health. During his fellowship, Dr. Kumar empirically compared Medicare Advantage (MA) and traditional Fee-For-Service (FFS) plans for post-acute rehabilitation utilization and patient outcomes. Dr. Kumar is a recipient of two R03 and one R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health to support his research on disparity in rehabilitation care. Recently, he received an R01 grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities to examine the race and Medicare-Medicaid Dual Enrollment disparities in access to quality and intensity of post-acute rehabilitation care and health outcomes in stroke. Over the last five years, Dr. Kumar have made substantial contribution in developing methodology and building a large data research in the field of rehabilitation and health equity that can be used by investigators and trainees across the country.
