Association of Academic PhysiatristsJan 42 minJanuary 2021 UpdateOn December 27, 2020, President Trump signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 into law to close out the 116th Session of Congr...
Association of Academic PhysiatristsDec 10, 20203 minAAMC's Virtual Annual Meeting: News for PhysiatristsBy: Danielle Perret Karimi, MD, Natasha Romanoski, DO, Jessica Beardsley, MD and Sterling Haring, DO, the AAP’s AAMC Representatives Lear...
Association of Academic PhysiatristsNov 30, 20202 minDecember 2020 UpdateHouse and Senate appropriations leaders are negotiating spending levels for all 12 FY 2021 appropriations bills as the December 11th cont...
Association of Academic PhysiatristsNov 23, 20203 minSpecial Meeting of the AMA House of Delegates: News for PhysiatristsBy: Prakash Jayabalan, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor at Northwestern University/ Shirley Ryan AbilityLab and the AAP’s AMA Representative ...
Association of Academic PhysiatristsNov 9, 20202 minQ&A with Karen Morice, MDSports Medicine Fellowship Associate Program Director at Montefiore, Assistant Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Membe...
Association of Academic PhysiatristsOct 26, 20202 minNovember 2020 UpdateElection 2020 While the upcoming Presidential Election garners most of the headlines, control of the U.S. Congress is also up for grabs. ...
Association of Academic PhysiatristsOct 9, 20205 minQ&A with Bruce M. Gans, MDExecutive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer at the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation and Distinguished Member of the AAP How di...
Association of Academic PhysiatristsSep 29, 20202 minOctober 2020 UpdateCongress Expected to Pass Stopgap Funding Plan The Senate is expected to pass a temporary funding bill, known as a Continuing Resolution ...
Association of Academic PhysiatristsSep 15, 20203 minA Call to Action: Defining PhysiatryBy: Amber Clark, MD, Resident Physician at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Former Advancement Representative for the AAP’s Re...
Association of Academic PhysiatristsAug 27, 20202 minSeptember 2020 UpdateCongress Returns after August Recess The 116th Session of Congress will end in December, giving lawmakers only four months to wrap up leg...
Association of Academic PhysiatristsAug 17, 20203 minQ&A with Richard Wilson, MD, MSVice Chair and Division Director of Neurological Rehabilitation at MetroHealth System, Associate Professor at Case Western Reserve Univer...
Association of Academic PhysiatristsJul 31, 20205 minAugust 2020 UpdateHouse Continues to Push Spending Bills House Democrats are plowing forward on their attempt to pass all 12 Fiscal Year 2021 spending bill...
Association of Academic PhysiatristsJul 20, 20206 minDisability Advocacy: Reflections from COVID-19After several years as a Navy doctor, returning to PM&R residency training in the early 1990s was like stepping into a new reality filled...
Association of Academic PhysiatristsJul 13, 20202 minQ&A with Felicia Skelton-Dudley, MD, MSAssistant Professor at Baylor College of Medicine, Investigator at the Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety, Micha...
Association of Academic PhysiatristsJul 2, 20202 minJuly 2020 UpdateHouse and Senate health committees of jurisdiction have been very busy in the past two weeks holding hearings on the COVID pandemic. Both...
Association of Academic PhysiatristsJun 29, 20203 minQ&A with John Whyte, MD, PhDInstitute Scientist Emeritus for the Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute and Founding Chair of the AAP’s Public Policy Committee How d...
Association of Academic PhysiatristsJun 15, 20202 minJune 2020 UpdateHouse Announces Ambitious July Goals House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) has announced that he plans to make July a productive month...
Association of Academic PhysiatristsJun 13, 20205 minAdvocacy PearlsPhysicians have the power to influence Congress. Ready to become a physician advocate? Ready to help educate the nation about Physiatry? ...
Association of Academic PhysiatristsJun 12, 20201 minWhy We Started this BlogThe Association of Academic Physiatrists (AAP) is your voice for PM&R, GME, research and disability-related issues on Capitol Hill. We wa...
