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Chairman and Professor, Department of PM&R and Director of Gait and Motion Analysis Laboratory
MossRehab & Albert Einstein Medical Center, Elkins Park, PA, USA.
Alberto Esquenazi, MD, serves as the John Otto Haas Chair of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Albert Einstein Medical Center, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is Chief Medical Officer of MossRehab and Magee Rehabilitation hospitals, as well as Director of the Gait and Motion Analysis Laboratory, Clinical Director of the Regional Amputee Center. Also in Philadelphia, Dr. Esquenazi is Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University.
Dr. Esquenazi’s research focuses on spasticity, gait analysis, limb prosthetics, orthotics and pioneering applications of robotics for rehabilitation. Dr. Esquenazi has published over 140 articles and book chapters. His research and clinical work has led him to be an invited speaker at national and international events. He serves on the editorial boards for PM&R the Journal of Injury, Function and Rehabilitation and the Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, Rehabilitación (Journal of the Spanish Society of R&PM), Medical Journal of the Sociedade Portuguesa de Medicina Fisica e de Rehabilitacao and the Korean Journal of PRM.
Dr. Esquenazi is a member of several national and international professional, educational, and research societies and review pannels, Past-President of the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and recipient of the Frank Krusen Lifetime Achievement Award. He is the recipient of other prestigious national and international awards for his clinical and research innovation and educational efforts.