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Thursday, February 19, 2026
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM AST
Breakfast Symposium

7:00 AM - 8:00 AM AST

Breakfast Symposium-Step into the Spasticity Experience!

Location: Ballroom B 3rd Floor

Presenter: John Alm, DO, MHA – West Virginia University

Sponsored By

7:00 AM - 8:00 AM AST
Roundtable Discussion: Opportunities & Challenges for Research Departments

7:00 AM - 8:00 AM AST

Roundtable Discussion: Opportunities & Challenges for Research Departments

Location: 204

7:00 AM - 5:00 PM AST
Registration Hours

7:00 AM - 5:00 PM AST

Registration Hours

7:30 AM - 5:00 PM AST
Program Coordinator Sessions

7:30 AM - 5:00 PM AST

Program Coordinator Sessions

Location: 102 ABC

Presenter: Terri L. Isbell, C-TAGME – UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

Presenter: Aurea Baez-Martinez, MSML, C-TAGME (she/her/hers) – Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine

Presenter: Caroline Fischer, MBA (she/her/hers) – ACGME

Presenter: Maria Hamud

Presenter: Paul Zobitz, MBA – American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Presenter: Megan Gentile, MPH, C-TAGME (she/her/hers) – MGB Spaulding Rehabilitation

8:15 AM - 9:15 AM AST
Thursday Educational Sessions 1

8:15 AM - 9:15 AM AST

Clinical Compensation Principles in Academic Medicine

Location: 103 AB

Course Director: Anna Rogers, MHA – University of Utah Health

Speaker: Aaron Olsen, MBA – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Administration

8:15 AM - 9:15 AM AST

Expect the unexpected - Important Anatomic Variants for Spasticity Interventionalists

Location: 209 ABC

Course Director: Michael Saulino, MD, PhD – Cooper University Health Care

Faculty: Daniel Moon, MD (he/him/his) – Jefferson Moss Magee Rehab

Speaker: Kimberly G. Heckert, MD – Thomas Jefferson University

Clinical

8:15 AM - 9:15 AM AST

Exploring Neurorehabilitation Fellowships: TBI, Pediatrics, SCI, and Neuromuscular Pathways

Location: 202 A

Course Director: Shane Stone, MD (he/him/his) – UC Davis Health

Speaker: Michael Nguyen, MD, MPH (he/him/his) – UTHealth Houston

Speaker: James B. Meiling, D.O. – Mayo Clinic

Speaker: Ana M. Ortiz-Santiago, MD – University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine

Academic/Education

8:15 AM - 9:15 AM AST

Interventional Spine and Pain Management: Starting and Advancing in your Career as a Physiatrist

Location: 208 ABC

Course Director: Jayesh Vallabh, MD, MBA (he/him/his) – The Ohio State University

Faculty: Maria Grabnar, MD (she/her/hers) – Case Western Reserve University/MetroHealth

Faculty: Terence Hillery, MD – MetroHealth/CWRU

Faculty: Ameet Nagpal, MD, MS, MEd, MBA – Medical University of South Carolina

Academic/Education

8:15 AM - 9:15 AM AST

Nextgen Approaches to Multidisciplinary Translational Medicine in PM&R

Location: 201 AB

Course Director: W. David Arnold, MD – University of Missouri

Faculty: Ryan Castoro, DO – University of MIssouri

Faculty: Julieth Andrea Sierra Delgado, MD, MSc (she/her/hers) – University of Missouri

Faculty: Kristina M. Kelly, PT, DPT, MS, EdM, NCS, CPT, PES (she/her/hers) – University of Missouri

Research

8:15 AM - 9:15 AM AST

Rehabilitation Oncology 101

Location: 203

Course Director: Adrian Cristian, MD MHCM – Miami Cancer Institute

Speaker: Ishan Roy, MD-PHD FAAPMR (he/him/his) – Shirley Ryan AbilityLab/Northwestern University

Speaker: Eric Wisotzky, MD FAAPMR (he/him/his) – MedStar National Rehabilitation Network

Speaker: Jessica Engle, DO (she/her/hers) – Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Academic/Education

8:15 AM - 9:15 AM AST

Washington Update Year-In-Review: What You Need to Know. Past, Present, Future.

Location: 202 BC

Course Director: Greg Worsowicz, MD – Mayo Clinic Florida

Speaker: Clinton Faulk, MD – East Carolina Brody School of Medicine

Speaker: Chris Rorick, MPA – Polsinelli

Speaker: Chloe Slocum, MD, MPH – Harvard Medical School Department of PM&R

Administration

9:30 AM - 10:30 AM AST
PLENARY SESSION DeLisa Lecture: Precision Rehabilitation to Optimize Human Ability

9:30 AM - 10:30 AM AST

PLENARY SESSION: DeLisa Lecture: Precision Rehabilitation to Optimize Human Ability

Location: Ballroom A - 3rd floor

Keynote Speaker: Pablo Celnik, MD – Shirley Ryan Ability Lab

10:30 AM - 11:15 AM AST
Demo Piramal Critical Care Hands-On ITB Pump Refill Demo

10:30 AM - 11:15 AM AST

Piramal Critical Care Hands-On ITB Pump Refill Demo

Location: Expo Hall

Presenter: Lizette Alvarez, MD

Sponsored By

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM AST
Anatomy and Cadaver Lab for Adult Upper Limb Spasticity

10:45 AM - 11:45 AM AST

Anatomy and Cadaver Lab for Adult Upper Limb Spasticity

Location: Expo Hall

Presenter: Shivani Gupta, DO – Advocate Christ Medical Clinic. Chicago, IL

Presenter: Madeleine Norris, PhD, MsC – University of Miami, Miami, FL

Presenter: Michael Saulino, MD, PhD – Cooper University Health Care

Sponsored By

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM AST
Thursday Educational Sessions 2

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM AST

Are Amputee Centers of Excellence Achievable? Universal Challenges and Successful Strategies.

Location: 202 BC

Course Director: David M. Crandell, MD – Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Harvard Medical School Dept of PM&R

Speaker: Ana V. Cintron, MD, FAAPMR – University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, Department of Physical Medicine, Rehabilitation & Sports Medicine

Speaker: Joanne Gonzalez, MD – University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine

Speaker: Prateek Grover, MD, PhD, MHA – Penn State University School of Medicine

Speaker: David C. Morgenroth, MD (he/him/his) – University of Washington and VA Puget Sound

Clinical

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM AST

Optimizing Real-World Neuromodulation Outcomes for Chronic Pain: A Multidisciplinary Perspective

Location: 208 ABC

Course Director: Christine Hunt, DO (she/her/hers) – Mayo Clinic

Speaker: David Provenzano, MD – Pain Diagnostics and Interventional care

Speaker: Alexios Carayannopoulous, DO, MPH, DABPMR, FFSMB, FASOMR (he/him/his) – Brown University Health

Neuromodulation

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM AST

Research Administration in an Evolving Research Landscape

Location: 103 AB

Course Director: Yelena Sionova, MBA (she/her/hers) – NYU Langone Health / Rusk Rehabilitation

Speaker: Megan Morris, PhD, MPH, CCC-SLP – Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, NYU Langone Health

Administration

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM AST

Supporting Current and Future Disorders of Consciousness Programs with State-of-the-Art Resources and Accreditation

Location: 209 ABC

Course Director: Terrence C. Carolan, MSPT, MBA – CARF International

Speaker: Sangeeta P. Driver, MD, MPH – Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

Speaker: Caroline Schnakers, PhD – Research Institute at Casa Colina Hospital and Centers for Healthcare

Speaker: Jennifer Russo, MD (she/her/hers) – Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation

Clinical

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM AST

The Power of Yes, the Wisdom of No: Seizing Opportunity in Academic Medicine Without Losing Yourself

Location: 203

Course Director: Aaron J. Yang, MD – Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Speaker: Prakash Jayabalan, MD, PhD – Shirley Ryan AbilityLab/Northwestern University

Speaker: Eric Wisotzky, MD FAAPMR (he/him/his) – MedStar National Rehabilitation Network

Speaker: Sandra Hearn, MD – University of Michigan

Speaker: Erika L. Trovato, DO, MS (she/her/hers) – Burke Rehabilitation Hospital

Speaker: Victoria C. Whitehair, MD – MetroHealth Rehabilitation Institute

Speaker: Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez, MD – UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

Speaker: Kristin A. Wong, MD (she/her/hers) – The University of Texas at Austin

Speaker: Kirk Lercher, MD – Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation

Academic/Education

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM AST

Trans-disciplinary Phenotyping for Low Back Pain

Location: 201 AB

Course Director: Gwendolyn A. Sowa, MD, PhD – Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, UPMC

Speaker: Nam Vo, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Pittsburgh Department of Orthopaedics

Speaker: Gina P. McKernan, PhD – University of Pittsburgh Department of PM&R

Speaker: Carol M. Greco, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychiatry

Speaker: Michael J. Schneider, DC, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Pittsburgh, Doctor of Chiropractic Program

Research

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM AST

Ultrasound-guided procedures in hand and wrist

Location: Ballroom B 3rd Floor

Course Director: Seyed Ali Mostoufi, MD – Department Of PM&R, University of Miami

Faculty: Amit Bhargava, MD – Advanced Interventional Pain & sports Medicine Cente

Speaker: Tricia A. Prince, DO, MS – UHealth - Jackson Rehabilitation Care

Clinical

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM AST
Meet LIAM: Elevating Upper Limb Spasticity Training with Precision and Innovation

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM AST

Meet LIAM: Elevating Upper Limb Spasticity Training with Precision and Innovation

Location: Ball Room A

Presenter: Jessica Mulhern, DO

Sponsored By

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM AST
Pediatric Rehab Fellowship Directors Group

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM AST

Pediatric Rehab Fellowship Directors Group

Location: 209 ABC

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM AST
Administrative Director's Council Meeting

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM AST

Administrative Director's Council Meeting

Location: 210

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM AST
Education Meeting

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM AST

Education Meeting

Location: 104 AB

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM AST
Thursday Educational Sessions 3

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM AST

How do we begin? An Intro to Training for Acute Neurologic Consult Services

Location: 209 ABC

Course Director: Arline Edmond, MD (she/her/hers) – Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

Speaker: Vera Staley, MD (she/her/hers) – University of Colorado and Denver Health

Speaker: Jing Lin, MD – New York University

Speaker: Jasmine SH Ng, MD (she/her/hers) – UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland

Clinical

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM AST

Navigating the Spectrum of Pediatric Chronic Pain: Interactive Case Based Learning

Location: 201 AB

Course Director: Sabrina S. Dieffenbach, MD (she/her/hers) – Rutgers New Jersey Medical School/Children's Specialized Hospital

Faculty: Katherine Bentley, MD – Children's Specialized Hospital/ Rutgers University

Faculty: Ziva Petrin, MD – Rutgers New Jersey Medical School/ Children's Specialized Hospital

Speaker: Nova Hou, MD, MPH (she/her/hers) – Stanford University

Clinical

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM AST

Orthobiologics in Regenerative Rehabilitation: Transforming Healing and Recovery

Location: 208 ABC

Course Director: Joanne Borg Stein, MD (she/her/hers) – Spaulding Rehab/Mass General Brigham/ Harvard Medical School

Speaker: Prakash Jayabalan, MD, PhD – Shirley Ryan AbilityLab/Northwestern University

Research

Sponsored By

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM AST

Psychology Administration

Location: 103 AB

Course Director: Nahir A. Henry, MHA PT (she/her/hers) – Johns Hopkins Hospital

Speaker: Anna Rogers, MHA – University of Utah Health

Administration

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM AST

Return to Sport After Injury: A Case-Based Discussion on the Return to Sport Continuum

Location: 202 BC

Course Director: Gerardo Miranda-Comas, MD – University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine/ Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Faculty: William Micheo, MD (he/him/his) – University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine

Faculty: Walter Frontera, MD – UPR School of Medicine

Faculty: Martin E. Roldan, MD (he/him/his) – University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine

Clinical

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM AST

Spinal Stenosis. New Treatments for an Old Diagnosis. Is It Time to Incorporate New Innovations into Your Practice?

Location: 203

Course Director: Seyed Ali Mostoufi, MD – Department Of PM&R, University of Miami

Speaker: Amit Bhargava, MD – Advanced Interventional Pain & sports Medicine Cente

Faculty: Andrew O. Sherman, MD – University of Miami

Faculty: Zacharia Isaac, MD (he/him/his) – Harvard University

Academic/Education

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM AST

Teaching on the Go: Building Effective Bedside Teaching Toolkits

Location: 202 A

Course Director: Alethea J. Appavu, DO – Rush University

Speaker: Kristen A. Harris, MD – Hackensack Meridian Health/JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute

Speaker: Amanda L. Harrington, MD (she/her/hers) – UPMC

Speaker: Aaron J. Yang, MD – Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Faculty: Dana Branch, MD – Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

Faculty: Faheem Mahomed, MD – University of Texas - Austin/Dell Children's Medical Center

Faculty: Michael Nguyen, MD, MPH (he/him/his) – UTHealth Houston

Academic/Education

3:00 PM - 3:45 PM AST
The Role of Animals in the Inpatient Rehabilitation Setting

3:00 PM - 3:45 PM AST

The Role of Animals in the Inpatient Rehabilitation Setting

Location: Expo Hall

Presenter: Elissa J. Charbonneau, DO, MS – Encompass Health.

Sponsored By

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM AST
Anatomy and Cadaver Lab for Adult Lower Limb Spasticity

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM AST

Anatomy and Cadaver Lab for Adult Lower Limb Spasticity

Location: Expo Hall

Presenter: Shivani Gupta, DO – Advocate Christ Medical Clinic. Chicago, IL

Presenter: Madeleine Norris, PhD, MsC – University of Miami, Miami, FL

Presenter: Michael Saulino, MD, PhD – Cooper University Health Care

Sponsored By

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM AST
Thursday Educational Sessions 4

3:30 PM - 4:15 PM AST

Revenue Cycle Practice Relations

Location: 103 AB

Course Director: Aaron Olsen, MBA – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Speaker: Thomas A. Petruska, MBA – University of North Carolina

Speaker: Lori McKenna, MAOTRL – Mount Sinai Health System NYC

Administration

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM AST

Emerging Technologies in Regenerative Rehabilitation

Location: 202 BC

Course Director: Fabrisia Ambrosio, PhD, MPT – Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital/ Harvard Medical School

Speaker: Michael L. Boninger, MD – UPMC

Speaker: Colin K. Franz, MD, PhD, FAAPMR – Northwestern University and Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

Research

Sponsored By

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM AST

Empower Movement: Prosthetics Bootcamp for Practitioners

Location: 208 ABC

Course Director: Haris R. Choudry, MD, MPH – Burke Rehabilitation Hospital

Speaker: Malav Shah, MD (he/him/his) – Burke Rehabilitation Hospital

Speaker: Gregrory DeGruchy, MD – Hartford Healthcare

Speaker: Kavita Nadendla, MD – Kennedy Krieger Institute/Johns Hopkins University

Speaker: Sharon David, MD – Mayo Clinic

Speaker: Alethea J. Appavu, DO – Rush University

Speaker: Marlis Gonzalez Fernandez, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Clinical

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM AST

From Idea to Impact: Navigating the Research Process in PM&R

Location: 202 A

Course Director: Farha Ikramuddin, MD, MHA (she/her/hers) – Mayo Clinic, Rochester

Speaker: W. David Arnold, MD – University of Missouri

Speaker: Kristin D. Zhao, PhD (she/her/hers) – Mayo Clinic

Speaker: Nathan Hogaboom, PhD – Kessler Foundation

Research

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM AST

Paradoxical response to exercise in Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) and Myalgic Encephalitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)

Location: 201 AB

Course Director: Tae Chung, MD (he/him/his) – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Speaker: Christina Kokorelis, MD – Johns Hopkins University

Speaker: Alba Azola, MD (she/her/hers) – Johns Hopkins University

Academic/Education

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM AST

Sideline coverage scenario workshop

Location: Ballroom B 3rd Floor

Course Director: Anusha Lekshminarayanan, MD (she/her/hers) – Westchester Medical Center/New York Medical College

Faculty: Shane M. Drakes, MD – Montefiore/Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Speaker: Samuel T. Dona, Jr., MD – University of Maryland

Speaker: Bram Newman, MD – Burke Rehabilitation

Speaker: Johan Latorre, MD, MS (he/him/his) – University of Alabama at Birmingham

Speaker: Yolanda Pham, MD, MPH (she/her/hers) – Montefiore Einstein

Speaker: Yomiyou Geleta, MD – ABBEL Research Division, Rehabilitation Institute at Sinai (formerly Sinai Rehabilitation Center), Sinai Hospital of Baltimore

Academic/Education

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM AST

The Complexities of Consciousness: Differentiating Overlapping Syndromes, Understanding Biases, and Mastering Assessment in Unresponsive Patients

Location: 209 ABC

Course Director: Jennifer Russo, MD (she/her/hers) – Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation

Speaker: Bei Zhang, MD, MSc – Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Department of Neurology, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

Speaker: Daniel Krasna, MD – Johns Hopkins

Speaker: Arline Edmond, MD (she/her/hers) – Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

Speaker: Matthew Puderbaugh, DO – University of Minnesota

Faculty: Cherry Junn, MD – University of Washington

Faculty: Erika L. Trovato, DO, MS (she/her/hers) – Burke Rehabilitation Hospital

Faculty: Rosanna C. Sabini, DO – Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

Speaker: Jennifer Wu, MD, PhD – Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Clinical

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM AST

Treating long COVID- We can help: A Comprehensive Multidisciplinary Outpatient Rehabilitation Approach

Location: 203

Course Director: Ava-Kathleen Rybicki, MA – University of Pennsylvania

Speaker: Benjamin Abramoff, MD – Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Speaker: Timothy R. Dillingham, MD – University of Pennsylvania

Speaker: Liliana E. Pezzin, PhD, JD (she/her/hers) – Medical College of Wisconsin

Speaker: William Niehaus, MD (he/him/his) – University of Colorado

Speaker: Jacqueline D. Neal, MD (she/her/hers) – Jesse Brown VA Medical Center/Northwestern University

Speaker: Monica Kuns, MA, CCC-SLP, CBIS (she/her/hers) – Penn Medicine Good Shepherd Outpatient Rehabilitation

Speaker: John T. Barry, PT – University Orthopaedic Associates

Research

4:15 PM - 5:00 PM AST

Physical Therapy Administration

Location: 103 AB

Speaker: Lori McKenna, MAOTRL – Mount Sinai Health System NYC

Administration

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM AST
Poster Reception

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM AST

Poster Reception

Location: Expo Hall B

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM AST
President's Welcome Reception

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM AST

President's Welcome Reception

Location: Expo Hall