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Association of Academic Physiatrists
- Dec 10, 2020
- 3 min
AAMC's Virtual Annual Meeting: News for Physiatrists
By: Danielle Perret Karimi, MD, Natasha Romanoski, DO, Jessica Beardsley, MD and Sterling Haring, DO, the AAP’s AAMC Representatives Lear...
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Association of Academic Physiatrists
- Nov 30, 2020
- 2 min
December 2020 Update
House and Senate appropriations leaders are negotiating spending levels for all 12 FY 2021 appropriations bills as the December 11th cont...
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Association of Academic Physiatrists
- Nov 23, 2020
- 3 min
Special Meeting of the AMA House of Delegates: News for Physiatrists
By: Prakash Jayabalan, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor at Northwestern University/ Shirley Ryan AbilityLab and the AAP’s AMA Representative ...
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Association of Academic Physiatrists
- Nov 9, 2020
- 2 min
Q&A with Karen Morice, MD
Sports Medicine Fellowship Associate Program Director at Montefiore, Assistant Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Membe...
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Association of Academic Physiatrists
- Oct 26, 2020
- 2 min
November 2020 Update
Election 2020 While the upcoming Presidential Election garners most of the headlines, control of the U.S. Congress is also up for grabs. ...
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Association of Academic Physiatrists
- Oct 9, 2020
- 5 min
Q&A with Bruce M. Gans, MD
Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer at the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation and Distinguished Member of the AAP How di...
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Association of Academic Physiatrists
- Sep 29, 2020
- 2 min
October 2020 Update
Congress Expected to Pass Stopgap Funding Plan The Senate is expected to pass a temporary funding bill, known as a Continuing Resolution ...
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Association of Academic Physiatrists
- Sep 15, 2020
- 3 min
A Call to Action: Defining Physiatry
By: Amber Clark, MD, Resident Physician at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Former Advancement Representative for the AAP’s Re...
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Association of Academic Physiatrists
- Aug 27, 2020
- 2 min
September 2020 Update
Congress Returns after August Recess The 116th Session of Congress will end in December, giving lawmakers only four months to wrap up leg...
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Association of Academic Physiatrists
- Aug 17, 2020
- 3 min
Q&A with Richard Wilson, MD, MS
Vice Chair and Division Director of Neurological Rehabilitation at MetroHealth System, Associate Professor at Case Western Reserve Univer...
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Association of Academic Physiatrists
- Jul 31, 2020
- 5 min
August 2020 Update
House Continues to Push Spending Bills House Democrats are plowing forward on their attempt to pass all 12 Fiscal Year 2021 spending bill...
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Association of Academic Physiatrists
- Jul 20, 2020
- 6 min
Disability Advocacy: Reflections from COVID-19
After several years as a Navy doctor, returning to PM&R residency training in the early 1990s was like stepping into a new reality filled...
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Association of Academic Physiatrists
- Jul 13, 2020
- 2 min
Q&A with Felicia Skelton-Dudley, MD, MS
Assistant Professor at Baylor College of Medicine, Investigator at the Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety, Micha...
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Association of Academic Physiatrists
- Jul 2, 2020
- 2 min
July 2020 Update
House and Senate health committees of jurisdiction have been very busy in the past two weeks holding hearings on the COVID pandemic. Both...
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Association of Academic Physiatrists
- Jun 29, 2020
- 3 min
Q&A with John Whyte, MD, PhD
Institute Scientist Emeritus for the Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute and Founding Chair of the AAP’s Public Policy Committee How d...
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Association of Academic Physiatrists
- Jun 15, 2020
- 2 min
June 2020 Update
House Announces Ambitious July Goals House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) has announced that he plans to make July a productive month...
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Association of Academic Physiatrists
- Jun 13, 2020
- 5 min
Advocacy Pearls
Physicians have the power to influence Congress. Ready to become a physician advocate? Ready to help educate the nation about Physiatry? ...
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Association of Academic Physiatrists
- Jun 12, 2020
- 1 min
Why We Started this Blog
The Association of Academic Physiatrists (AAP) is your voice for PM&R, GME, research and disability-related issues on Capitol Hill. We wa...
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