Leighton Chan, MD MPH

Chief
Rehabilitation Medicine Department Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland

Leighton Chan, MD, MPH
Co-Editor in Chief, Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
Chief of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health

Dr. Leighton Chan is a Tenured Senior Scientist and the Chief of Rehabilitation Medicine at the NIH Clinical Research Center, a 200 bed research hospital on the NIH campus. He received his BA degree from Dartmouth College and his MD from the UCLA School of Medicine. He received residency training in PM & R at the University of Washington. Subsequently, he completed a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar Fellowship, earned an MPH at the UW School of Public Health, and was a Congressional Fellow for the Honorable Jim McDermott (Washington). In 2007, after 10 years on the faculty of the University of Washington, Dr. Chan took his current position at NIH where he manages a department of 100 staff and students who support NIH's Intramural Research Program. In 2013, he was named Co-Editor in Chief of the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

Dr. Chan has concentrated his research efforts on studying the services provided to individuals with disabilities. His areas of focus have been providing health care and social support for individuals with disabilities, as well as the impact of aerobic training on a number of diseases. He is also he Co-Director of the Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine, one of the largest TBI research centers in the world. He has published more than 150 peer reviewed articles, including 11 in JAMA, Lancet and NEJM, and has received research funding in excess of $60 million. In 2007, he was elected to the Institute of Medicine (now the National Academy of Medicine).

Presentation(s):

• Meet the Editors of the ACRM Scientific Journals — Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation & Archives of Rehabilitation Research & Clinical Translation

  Tuesday, October 20, 2020
  5:30 PM – 6:30 PM EST

• PLENARY I: 100 years of the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: A Legacy of Disseminating the Best Evidence - Opening Remarks & ACRM Award Presentation by Dr. Pamela Roberts (799868)

  Wednesday, October 21, 2020
  5:00 PM – 6:15 PM EST

• PLENARY I PANEL Q&A: 100 years of the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: A Legacy of Disseminating the Best Evidence

  Wednesday, October 21, 2020
  6:15 PM – 6:45 PM EST