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Timothy R. Dillingham, MD

Professor and Chair
University of Pennsylvania

Timothy R. Dillingham MD MS is a Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation physician and researcher, who is currently the William J. Erdman II, Professor and Chair for the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA. He earned his Medical Degree from the University of Washington, School of Medicine in Seattle, Washington in 1986. He completed his internship and residency in Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Washington in 1990. He is board certified in PM&R and Electrodiagnostic Medicine. Following his training, Dr. Dillingham served for four years in the US Army at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, in Washington, D.C during the Persian Gulf War.

In 1994, Dr. Dillingham joined the Department of PM&R at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. In 2003, he assumed the Chair position for the Department of PM&R at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In 2011 he became Chair at the University of Pennsylvania. He has received continuous federal funding from the NIH, VA, and CDC for his investigative work over the past twenty-seven years.

His recent work involved a three-year randomized clinical trial of multidisciplinary care for persons suffering from long-COVID. He won the Distinguished Researcher Award in 2010 from the American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine (AANEM). Dr. Dillingham served as President of the AANEM from 2010 to 2011. He founded iFIT Prosthetics LLC in 2010 to address the many shortcomings of conventional prosthetics. He has mentored twenty-eight graduate and undergraduate students. He won three teaching awards across two academic institutions. In 2022 he won the AANEM Innovation Award, recognizing his development of advanced lower limb prostheses. In 2025 Dr. Dillingham won the Distinguished Academician Award from the Association of Academic Physiatrists.

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