Chief Scientific Officer/Scientific Director
NIH Clinical Center
Bethesda, MD, United States
Dr. Leighton Chan is a Tenured Senior Scientist, the Chief of Rehabilitation Medicine, and the Chief Scientific Officer/Scientific Director at the NIH Clinical Research Center, a 200-bed research hospital on the NIH campus. Born and raised in New York City, he received his BA degree from Dartmouth College and his MD from the UCLA School of Medicine. He received residency training at the University of Washington in Seattle. Subsequently, he completed a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar Research Fellowship and was a Congressional Fellow for the Honorable Jim McDermott (Washington). In 2007, after 10 years on the faculty of the University of Washington, Dr. Chan took a position at NIH where he manages a department of 120 staff and students who support NIH's Intramural Research Program. In 2024, he was named the Clinical Center’s Chief Scientific Officer, with purview over all the tenure track and tenured investigator in the hospital.
Dr Chan is also the Co-Director of the Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine (CNRM), one of the largest Traumatic Brain Injury research centers in the world. The CNRM links the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, the Uniform Services University with the NIH Intramural Research Program and focuses on improving the recovery of injured warfighters.
Dr. Chan has published more than 198 peer reviewed articles, including 11 in JAMA and NEJM. He is currently the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, the oldest and largest academic journal in the field of rehabilitation. In 2007, he was elected to the US National Academy of Medicine (formally the Institute of Medicine).
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Publishing in High-impact Rehabilitation Journals 0920
Friday, November 1, 2024
8:15 AM – 9:15 AM
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