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Faculty Emeritus
Jefferson Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute
Dr. Whyte is a physiatrist and experimental psychologist and founding director of the Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute (now Jefferson Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute), where he continues as Institute Faculty Emeritus. Dr. Whyte has spent the bulk of his career studying recovery from traumatic brain injury with a special emphasis on disorders of consciousness. His research has addressed prognostic prediction, long-term outcome, assessment, and treatment, and has provided some of the key evidence supporting current evidence-based treatment for brain injury. In addition to his empirical research on brain injury, he has published extensively on the special methdologic challenges posed by rehabilitation research and potential solutions to some of those challenges. Until recently, he co-led the Rehabilitation Medicine Scientist Training Program, with Michael Boninger, to address the shortage of physician scientists in rehabilitation. Most recently, he has been a lead developer of the Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System (RTSS), a rehabilitation-wide framework for specifying treatments with respect to their known or hypothesized active ingredients. His research has been funded by the NIH, NIDILRR, PCORI, and several private foundations.
Friday, February 20, 2026
8:15 AM - 9:15 AM AST
