Ross Zafonte, Earle P. and Ida S. Charlton Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and head of the HMS Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, with Qing-Mei Wang, Sabrina Paganoni, Irene Davis, Grant Iverson and David Storto, President of Partners Continuing Care and the Spaulding Rehabilitation Network. Paolo Bonato was unable to attend and is not pictured. Image: Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
Ross Zafonte, Earle P. and Ida S. Charlton Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and head of the HMS Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, with Qing-Mei Wang, Sabrina Paganoni, Irene Davis, Grant Iverson and David Storto, President of Partners Continuing Care and the Spaulding Rehabilitation Network. Paolo Bonato was unable to attend and is not pictured. Image: Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
Recently the Harvard Medical School Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation gathered at the Boston campus of Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital to celebrate the faculty promotions of several of its members.
Grant Iverson and Irene Davis were named Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Iverson is interested in patient outcomes from mild traumatic brain injury in athletes, civilians, service members and veterans. Davis, who is also director of the Spaulding National Running Center at Spaulding Hospital Cambridge, is interested in the biomechanics of barefoot running and in the rehabilitation and treatment of running injuries.
The promotions of Iverson and Davis doubled the number of full professors in the HMS department of Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, as they became just the third and fourth full professors in the department.
In addition, Paolo Bonato attained the level of associate professor and Sabrina Paganoni and Qing-Mei Wang attained the level of assistant professor.
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation is just beginning its third decade as a department at HMS. The Spaulding Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation residency program was granted accreditation in 1992, and the first residency class began in 1993. In 1995, the HMS Faculty Council voted to give Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation independent department status.
