William Zev Rymer
W. Zev Rymer, MD, PhD is a noted professor, doctor, and neuroscientist currently serving as Director of Research Planning at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab in Chicago.
WORK IN PROCESS -- INTERVIEWING DR RYMER AND HIS COLLEAGUES. Zev W. Rymer received the MBBS medical degree from Melbourne University in 1962, and completed his residency in internal medicine at Prince Henry’s Hospital/Monash University in Melbourne in 1967. He then undertook predoctoral training for his PhD in Neuroscience at Monash University, completing training in 1971. He was awarded a Fogarty Fellowship at NINDS/NIH from 1971-1974, followed by a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University from 1974-1976, respectively. He currently serves as the director of the Singe Motor Unit Laboratory at the AbilityLab (RIC), Chicago.
In the four decades Dr. Rymer’s lab has been in the fore front of research and clinical work surrounding motor disorders in patients with stroke and spinal cord injury. In brief, these studies include analyses of changes in control signals arising from damaged brain areas using electrophysiological and imaging methods, recordings of altered motor unit discharge patterns to explore origins of muscular weakness and spasticity, and mechanical measurements of altered forces and torque patterns generated by muscles in the impaired limbs
W. Zev Rymer, M.D., Ph.D., has lent his expertise and leadership first to the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) and then to Shirley Ryan AbilityLab for the last quarter century. He was the second scientist hired by the organization and is a founding force behind the growth and success of our research enterprise, to date the largest and most internationally revered of its kind. He served RIC as Chief Scientist for nine years, Today he also continues to lead his renowned Sensory Motor Performance Program (SMPP) laboratories. In addition, Dr. Rymer served as RIC’s John G. Searle Chair in Rehabilitation Research, stepping down in July 2014.
In addition to his research roles, Dr. Rymer holds appointments as professor of physiology and biomedical engineering at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and at the Edward Hines, Jr., Veterans Administration Hines Hospital, Hines, Illinois. His laboratory receives support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Department of Education’s National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), a number of research-oriented foundations and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Dr. Rymer earned his medical degree from Melbourne University and his Ph.D. in neurophysiology from Monash University, both in Australia. After postdoctoral training at the National Institutes of Health and Johns Hopkins University Medical School, he became an assistant professor of neurosurgery and physiology at the State University of New York, Syracuse. In 1978, he came to Chicago as an assistant professor of physiology at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, and he remained as a faculty member in physiology until his appointment at the RIC in 1989.
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| Born | Australia |
| 🏫 Education | Melbourne University, 1962
Residency in internal medicine Prince Henry’s Hospital/Monash University, 1967 PhD in Neuroscience at Monash University, 1971 |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| 👔 Employer | Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago/Shirley Ryan AbilityLab |
| Known for | Neuroscience, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, pathophysiogy, stroke, spinal cord injury, spinal circuits, biomedical engineering, neural signal processing |
| Title | Director, Research Planning Engineering in Neuroscience
Professor PM&R, Physiology and Biomedical Engineering Director, Sensory Motor Performance Program (SMPP) |
Contributions to Neuroscience[edit]
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Other achievements[edit]
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Awards[edit]
- Fogarty Fellowship at NINDS/NIH.1971-1974
- Postdoctoral Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University. 1974-1976
- Sell Lecturer Award, "“Restoration of Motor Function in Persons with Chronic Spinal Cord Injury – A Potential Therapeutic Role for Acute Intermittent Hypoxia (AIH)”. 2018[1]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Sell Lecturer Award". American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA). Retrieved 8/22/2020. Unknown parameter
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