Clinical & Research Subspecialty for Neuro-Rehabilitation
Neurologic Rehabilitation and Neural Repair Program
Steven C. Cramer, MD, Program Director
Ahmet Arac, MD, PhD
S. T. Carmichael, MD, PhD
Bruce Dobkin, MD
Jason Hinman, MD, PhD
Michael Su, MD
Neurorehabilitation fellow
Primary Clinical and Teaching Services
Inpatient service at the California Rehabilitation Institute (Cal Rehab) in nearby Century City. This is a 138-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility that sees patients in the early subacute phase with conditions that include stroke, TBI, SCI and general neurology. Attendings are based in our department and in the Dept. PM&R at Cedars-Sinai.
Two- and 4-week elective rotations at Cal Rehab are offered, with a focus on either [1] clinical activities, with Dr. Michael Su and the neurorehabilitation fellow; or clinical research, with Dr. Steven Cramer.
- We also provide neurorehabilitation consultations for inpatients at the Ronald Reagan Medical Center at UCLA in Westwood, on topics that include neurology, neurosurgery, geriatrics, medicine, and orthopedics and extend to rehabilitation treatment and prognosis.
Outpatient service in the Neurology Clinic in Westwood. Attendings include Drs. Bruce Dobkin, Ahmet Arac, and the neurorehabilitation fellow in a weekly clinic that emphasizes strategies to manage loss of motor control, language, mobility, and specific cognitive abilities, as well as their functional consequences.
Steven C. Cramer, MD
Teaching:
Teach neurology residents and fellows when attending on inpatient service Teach post-doctoral fellows in research lab
Clinical Care:
Attends on inpatient stroke service
Research:
Studies stroke recovery in human patients, with a focus on clinical trials and biomarker development.
Ahmet Arac, MD, PhD
Teaching:
Neurorehab fellows, residents, and students in the outpatient clinic and courses.
Clinical:
Neurorehabilitation clinic
Research:
Applications of machine learning and deep behavior to automated kinematics and neural recordings.
Simultaneously examines neurons with silicon probes at multiple CNS levels in the motor network during reach-and–grasp behavior.
S. Thomas (Tom) Carmichael, M.D., Ph.D.
Teaching:
Teach neurology residents and fellows when attending on inpatient service
Teach graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in research lab
Clinical Care:
Attends on inpatient general neurology service
Infrequent outpatient clinic
Research:
Studies the molecular and cellular mechanisms of neural repair after stroke, using mouse models. Several findings have made their way into clinical trials.
Bruce Dobkin, MD
Teaching and clinical: Neurorehab clinic
Research:
- Phase 2 and 3 clinical trials, trial designs, pilot studies
- Maraviroc controlled trial: Compare placebo to CCR5 blockade to enhance recovery by mechanisms of regeneration, learning, and drug plus training-induced plasticity.
- Remote tele-rehabilitation: Test a more rigorous clinical trial design for neural repair studies that optimizes training and practice, using home-based tele-rehabilitation, virtual reality, and behavioral management.
- 3-D kinematics: With Dr. Arac, test new monitoring and outcome kinematic measurements during real-life tasks that may offer more sensitive measures of motor changes than traditional clinical scales.
Jason Hinman, MD, PhD
Teaching:
Residents and stroke fellows
Clinical:
Acute and subacute stroke in clinic and Stroke Service.
Research:
Microvascular disease mechanisms and repair in stroke and neurodegenerative disease.
White matter vascular lesion mechanisms and repair.
Michael Su, MD
Associate Medical Director, California Rehabilitation Institute
Director of the Stroke Rehabilitation Program, California Rehabilitation Institute
Teaching:
Residents and fellows at Cal Rehab in stroke / neurorehabilitation, neurocritical care.
Clinical:
Inpatient service at California Rehabilitation Institute
Research:
Clinical trials