Precision Rehabilitation

Friday, February 20, 2026

8:15 AM - 9:15 AM AST

Location: 209 ABC

Course Director(s)

R. James J. Cotton, MD, PhD

Attending Physician
Shirley Ryan Ability Lab, Nothwestern McGaw

Speaker(s)

John Whyte, MD, PhD (he/him/his)

Faculty Emeritus
Jefferson Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute
Amy K. Wagner, MD

Professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; Director UPMC Brain Injury Medicine Fellowship
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
W. David Arnold, MD

Executive Director, Professor of PM&R
University of Missouri

While precision medicine has revolutionized fields such as oncology, rehabilitation has not yet seen a comparable revolution. Progress has been limited due to a lack of data and conceptual frameworks to organize this data within rehabilitation. However, this is poised to change, with evolving precision around measurements of outcomes such as biomarkers and AI-powered movement analysis, documentation of interventions and ways to formalize them such as the rehabilitation treatment specification system, and more precise targeted interventions including targeted genetic interventions. This course will review the rapid progress in these domains while laying out a framework for future interdisciplinary progress.