Professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; Director UPMC Brain Injury Medicine Fellowship
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Amy K. Wagner MD is a tenured Professor, Vice-chair Faculty Development, and UPMC Endowed Chair for Translational Research in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Pittsburgh. She holds appointments in the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Neuroscience and Clinical and Translational Science Institute. She is Associate Director for Rehabilitation Research at the Safar Center for Resuscitation Research.
Dr. Wagner has defined her work with rehabilitation centered biomarkers research as Rehabilomics Research (www.rehabilomics.pitt.edu). Dr. Wagner’s clinical research (dopamine systems, hormones, inflammation, neurotrophins) explores genetics and serum-based biomarkers to support personalized treatment selection, clinical decision-making, and prognostication after TBI. Her experimental research incorporates immunotherapies, neuropharmacological agents, and rehabilitation-relevant cognitive training paradigms to understand their impacts on behavioral recovery.
She was the 2018-2019 National Neurotrauma Society President and the Neurotrauma 2019 Conference Chair. She is a 2020 inductee into the National Academy of Medicine. Dr. Wagner has published over 140 original research and 80 invited articles and chapters and is the editor in chief of the text book: Acute Care Neuroconsultation and Neurorehabilitation Management. Her extensive transdisciplinary and translational research portfolio of federally funded research includes that National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control, the National institute for Disability, Independent living, and Rehabilitation Research, and the Department of Defense for her TBI and cardiac arrest research. She is also active member of the Neurocritical Care Society sponsored Curing Coma Campaign and a 2020 inductee into the National Academy of Medicine.
Dr. Wagner mentors numerous research trainees and directs the Brain Injury Medicine Clinical Fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Clinically, she treats patients undergoing inpatient neurorehabilitation and is an acute care brain injury medicine consultant for neurologically devastated patients hospitalized at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Friday, February 20, 2026
8:15 AM - 9:15 AM AST
