ACRM Board of Governors
ACRM is led by members elected to serve on the board of governors. Supporting the board are volunteer standing committees as well as a business team led by the Chief Executive Officer.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
PRESIDENT
Fofi Constantinidou, PhD, CCC-SLP, CBIS, FACRM, FASHA
Professor of Language Disorders & Clinical Neuropsychology
Director Center for Applied Neuroscience
University of Cyprus
Nicosia, Cyprus
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PRESIDENT-ELECT
Brad Kurowski, MD, MS, FACRM
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, OH
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PAST-PRESIDENT
Pamela Roberts, PhD, OTR/L, SCFES, FAOTA, CPHQ, FNAP, FACRM
Executive Director, Office of Chief Medical Officer;
Executive Director and Professor,
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; Co-Director, Division of Informatics,
Department of Biomedical Sciences,
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center;
Sr. Director, Quality, Outcomes, and Research,
California Rehabilitation Institute,
Los Angeles, CA
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SECRETARY
Rachel Proffitt, OTD, OTR/L
Associate Professor
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO
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TREASURER
Abiodun Akinwutan, PhD, MPH, MBA, MIH, FASHAP, FACRM, FAMedS
Dean and Professor
University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City, KS
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MEMBERS-AT-LARGE
Sutanuka Bhattacharjya, PhD, OTR/L
Assistant Professor
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA
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Brian Downer, PhD
Associate Professor
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, TX
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Patricia Heyn, PhD, FGSA, FACRM
Founding Director and Professor of Gerontology and Physical Therapy,
Center for Optimal Aging
Marymount University
Arlington, VA
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Claire Kalpakjian, PhD, MS, FACRM
Associate Professor
University of Michigan, Dept. of Physical
Medicine and Rehabilitation
Ann Arbor, MI
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Sonya Kim, PhD, CRC, BCB, FACRM
Research Associate Professor
New York University Grossman School of Medicine
New York, NY
EX-OFFICIO
Jeffrey R. Basford, MD, PhD, FACRM
Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota
Allen W Heinemann, PhD, ABPP (RP), FACRM
Co-Editor-in-Chief, Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine,
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
Chicago, IL
Leighton Chan, MD, MPH, FACRM
Co-Editor-in-Chief,
Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Bethesda, MD
Shannon Juengst, PhD, CRC, FACRM
Clinical Investigator, Senior Scientist
TIRR Memorial Hermann
Houston, TX
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Chetan Phadke, BPhT, PhD
Manager of Research and Library Services
Providence Care Centre
Kingston, ON
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Alex Wong, PhD, DPhil
Research Associate Professor
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab/ Northwestern University
Chicago, IL
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Anne Deutsch, PhD, RN, CRRN, FACRM, FARN
Clinical Research Scientist
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
Chicago, IL
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Catherine VanDerwerker, PT, DPT, PhD
Research Health Scientist
Ralph H. Johnson VAMC and the Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, SC
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Maria Cecilia Alpasan, PhD, OTR/L, CPHQ
Quality and Education Coordinator
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA
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