Member Community Leaders

AAPM&R Member Communities are self-identified, organically established communities offering opportunities for members to connect with each other, share experiences and advance the future of the specialty together! Find more information about Member Communities here.

AAPM&R hosted a self-nomination process for members seeking to be elected as chair and other leadership positions of our Member Communities. Many of the communities had uncontested nominees.   

• Adaptive Athletes and Sports - Johan Latorre, MD, MS, FAAPMR
• African American Physiatrists - Vovanti T. Jones, MD, FAAPMR
• Age-Friendly Care in Rehabilitation - Mooyeon Oh-Park, MD, FAAPMR
• Alternative Pain Medicine - Bruce Hsu, MD, MBA, MS, FAAPMR
• Amputee/Limb Loss Restoration Rehabilitation - Prateek Grover, MD, PhD, MHA, FAAPMR
• Asian Physiatrists - Raymond Chou, MD, FAAPMR
• Brain Injury Medicine Fellowship Directors - Nenad Brkic, MD, FAAPMR
• Business of Healthcare Physiatrists - Mohammad Agha, MD, MHA, FAAPMR
• Cancer Rehabilitation Medicine - Leslie Bagay, MD, FAAPMR
• Central Nervous System - Diane Mortimer, MD, MSN, FAAPMR
• Chicago Physiatrists - Courtney Stefanski, MD, FAAPMR
• Early-Career Physiatrists - Elizabeth Martin, MD, MPH, MHS, FAAPMR & Mary Elise McClanahan, MD, FAAPMR
• Exercise as Medicine - Amy West, MD, EdM, FAAPMR
• Hypermobility Syndromes - Jennifer Hankenson, MD, FAAPMR
• Inpatient Consultants - Sofiya Prilik, MD, FAAPMR
• Inpatient Rehabilitation - Craig DiTommaso, MD, FAAPMR
• Intellectual Disability - Jessica Prokup, MD
• International Rehabilitation and Global Health - Nina Carmela Tamayo, DO, MS, MPH, FAAPMR
• Interventional Pain - Gurtej Singh, MD, FAAPMR
• Kosher Physiatry - Daniel Krasna, MD, FAAPMR
• LatinX in Physiatry - Sol Abreu-Sosa, MD, FAAPMR
• LGBTQIA+ in Physiatry - Jason Edwards, DO, FAAPMR
• Muslim Physiatrists - Zainab Al Lawati, MD, FAAPMR
• Neuromodulation - Chane Price, MD, FAAPMR
• Neuromuscular Medicine and EDX - Colin Franz, MD, PhD, FAAPMR
• Overhead Athlete - Ryan Nussbaum, DO, FAAPMR
• Pain Medicine - Jennifer Cushman, MD
• Pediatric Rehabilitation - Kimberly Hartman, MD, MHPE, FAAPMR
• Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine Current Fellows/Combination Residents and Future Candidates -Gabrielle McDermott Schneider, DO
• Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine Fellowship Program Director - Karl Klamar, MD, FAAPMR
• Pediatric Sports Medicine - Ami Hampole, DO
• Performing Arts Medicine - Tracy Espiritu McKay, DO, FAAPMR
• Physiatry in Skilled Nursing Facilities - Matthew Cowling, DO, FAAPMR
• Physiatric Life Care Planners - Todd Cowen, MD, FAAPMR
• Private Practice Physiatrists - Anitgone Argyriou, MD, FAAPMR
• Puerto Rican Physiatrists - Christopher Bonilla, MD, MS
• Regenerative Medicine - Shawn Uraine, MD, FAAPMR 
• Research in Physiatry - Patricia Zheng, MD, FAAPMR
• Running Medicine - Sara Raiser, MD, FAAPMR
• South Asian Physiatrists - Ravi Kasi, MD, FAAPMR
• Spasticity Management - Zachary Bohart, MD, FAAPMR
• Spina Bifida Providers - Danielle Powell, MD, FAAPMR
• Spinal Cord Injury Medicine - Shane Stone, MD
• Spine Medicine - Roger Luo, MD, FAAPMR
• Sports Medicine - Cleo Stafford, II, MD, MS, FAAPMR
• Sports Medicine Current Fellows and Future Candidates - Crystal Graff, MD
• Sports Medicine Fellowship Directors - Kenneth Mautner, MD, FAAPMR
• Therapeutic Cannabis Physiatrists - Stuart J. Glassman, MD, MBA, FAAPMR
• Women Physiatrists - Sony Issac, MD, FAAPMR
• Wound Medicine - Rummana Aslam, MD FAAPMR