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! AAPM&R is pleased to recognize our 2019-2020 Member Community chairs who raised their hands and joined Team Physiatry as Academy volunteers. Add your name to our team roster at phyzforum.aapmr.org.
- D'Wan Carpenter, DO, MS: African American Physiatrists
- Danielle Zelnick, MD: Alternative Pain Medicine
- Marlis Gonzalez-Fernandez, MD, PhD; Amputee/Limb Loss Restoration Rehabilitation
- Kirk Lercher, MD: Brain Injury Medicine Fellowship Directors
- Ekta Gupta, MD: Cancer Rehabilitation Medicine
- David Ripley, MD, MS: Central Nervous System
- Max Fitzgerald, MD: Chicago Physiatrists
- Colleen Sullivan, MD: Early-Career Physiatrists
- Jonathan Whiteson, MD: Exercise as Medicine
- Kanakadurg Poduri, MD: Geriatric Rehabilitation
- Lauren Shapiro, MD: Inpatient Rehabilitation
- Priya Chandan, MD, MPH: Intellectual Disability
- David Lee, MD: Interventional Pain
- Edward Hurvitz, MD: Kosher Physiatry
- Glendaliz Bosques-Mendez, MD: LatinX in Physiatry
- R. Samuel Mayer, MD: Medical Educators
- Mehul Desai, MD, MPH: Neuromodulation
- Shawn Jorgensen, MD: Neuromuscular Medicine
- Jason Zaremski, MD: Overhead Athlete
- Erik Shaw, DO: Pain Medicine
- Melissa Tinney, MD: Para/Adaptive Athletes and Sports
- Joline Brandenburg, MD: Pediatric Rehabilitation
- Theodore Yip, MD: Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine Current Fellows/Combination Residents and Future Candidates
- David Pruitt, MD: Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine Fellowship Program Directors
- Mary Dubon, MD: Pediatric Sports Medicine
- Lauren Elson, MD: Performing Arts Medicine
- Sasha Iversen, DO: Physiatry Life Care Planners
- No Chair: Private Practice Physiatrists
- Isaac P. Syrop, MD: Regenerative Medicine
- Heather Vincent, PhD, MS: Research in Physiatry
- Kevin Vincent, MD, PhD: Running Medicine
- Aaron Yang, MD: Spine Medicine
- Mark Ellen, MD: Sports Medicine
- Kenneth Mautner, MD: Sports Medicine Fellowship Directors
- Stephanie Tow, MD: Sports Medicine Current Fellows and Future Candidates
- Jason Marchetti, MD: Texas Physiatrists
- Mary Russell, DO, MS: Women Physiatrists
- Mark Griffith, MD: Wound Medicine