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(Naomi) L. Gerber, MD

Director for Research
Inova Health System
Bethesda, MD, United States

Lynn Gerber, MD, is University Professor Emerita at George Mason University, and currently Director for Research, Medicine Service Line, Inova Health System. She is former Chief, Department Rehabilitation Medicine, Clinical Center, NIH (retired 2005).

She graduated from Tufts University School of Medicine, completed medicine internship and residency at the New England Medical Center and fellowship specializing in rheumatology at National Institutes of Health. She completed residency in PM&R at George Washington University. She is boarded in all three specialties.

Currently, Dr. Gerber is teaching faculty at Mason, thesis advisor to graduate students, founding Director of the Center for the Study of Chronic Illness and Disability and co-director of the Center for Adaptive Systems of Brain-Body Interactions. She directs the Outcomes Program at Beatty Center, Inova which pursues transdisciplinary research studying performance, perception and proteomics of function, fatigue and pain in people with chronic liver disease and obesity. Dr. Gerber is considered an innovator in these research areas. She is PI of several active protocols investigating fatigue in chronic liver disease and post-COVID syndrome. Currently, she is part of a multi-disciplinary team investigating characteristics of myofascial pain funded through a HEAL grant from NIH (2022-2027).

Dr. Gerber helped develop the specialty of cancer rehabilitation while at Clinical Center, NIH. She has been awarded for this work and for scientific innovation, leadership, humanitarian activities and teaching from Federal Government, universities, foundations and professional societies. She has contributed chapters to textbooks on cancer rehabilitation; co-authored 45 peer reviewed manuscripts on the subject of rehabilitation of patients with cancer especially cancer related fatigue. She has helped develop outcome measures for cancer patients.She has received multiple grants for this work. She received the Debbra Flomenhoft Humanitarian Award and ACRM Excellence in Cancer Rehabilitation Award, 2016.
She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.

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