Professor and Chair of Rehabilitation Medicine
UT Health San Antonio
San Antonio, TX, United States
Dr. Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez is an accomplished academic Physiatrist and Professor and Distinguished Chair of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at the Long School of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. She is also the Medical Director of Critical Illness Recovery and Neuro Rehabilitation at Warm Springs Rehabilitation Hospitals in San Antonio and Chief of the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation service line at the University Health Hospital system. She is a fellow member of the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, as well as on the board of trustees of the Association of Academic Physiatrists.
Dr. Gutierrez excitedly moved to San Antonio to lead the distinguished Department of Rehabilitation Medicine in 2020. Her area of clinical expertise is the care of patients with traumatic brain injury, stroke rehabilitation, interventional spasticity management, and post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC). She has over 100 publications in these areas, as well as topics related to health equity and inclusion. She is also a sub-investigator in the NIH RECOVER trial through her institution, which is one of 17 hubs in the country to be part of the initiative to study Long COVID and runs clinical trials related to spasticity management.
Disclosure(s): AbbVie: Advisory Board (Ongoing), Consultant (Ongoing), Speaker/Honoraria (Ongoing); Ipsen: Advisory Board (Ongoing), Consultant (Ongoing), Contracted Research (Principal Investigators must provide information, even if received by the institution) (Ongoing), Speaker/Honoraria (Ongoing); Merz: Consultant (Ongoing), Speaker/Honoraria (Ongoing); Revance: Consultant (Ongoing)
Thursday, October 31, 2024
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM