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Chief Medical Informatics Officer and Professor of Clinical Rehabilitation Medicine
MedStar National Rehabilitation Network and Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Richard D. Zorowitz, M.D. is a graduate of the Tulane University School of Medicine. He completed an internship in internal medicine at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY, and a residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Northwestern University, IL. He is board-certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spinal Cord Injury Medicine, and Brain Injury Medicine. Dr. Zorowitz focuses his clinical activities on the rehabilitation of stroke, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, and other neurological conditions.
Dr. Zorowitz serves as chair of the Innovative Practices and Payment Models committee. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation. He has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals and has written chapters about stroke rehabilitation internationally. He is a co-editor of the textbook, Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation (2015). He participated on consensus panels of The Joint Commission (TJC) Primary Stroke Centers, the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) Stroke Subspecialty Program, and the Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement (PCPI) Stroke and Stroke Rehabilitation Workgroup. He has contributed to a number of clinical practice guidelines and scientific statements, including the Veterans Affairs/Department of Defense Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Adult Stroke Rehabilitation Care (2005); and the American Stroke Association Writing Groups for Recommendations for the Establishment of Stroke Systems of Care (2005, 2019), Metrics of Comprehensive Stroke Centers (2005), Comprehensive Overview of Nursing and Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation Care of the Stroke Patient (2010), Metrics for Measuring Quality of Care in Comprehensive Stroke Centers: Detailed Follow-up to Brain Attack Coalition Comprehensive Stroke Center Recommendations (2011), Palliative and End-of-Life Care in Stroke (2014), Adult Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery (2016), and Montana Mission: Lifeline Stroke Rehabilitation and Post-Acute Care (2022).