MedStar Health News

Actress/Singer, Ali Stroker, from the hit Fox TV series, ‘Glee,’ and Broadway musical, ‘Spring Awakening,’ visited with Spinal Cord Injury and Pediatric patients at MedStar NRH. Ms. Stroker visited as a patient ambassador for Wellspect HealthCare and LoFric® catheters.

Unveiling Bel Air Medical Campus on April 2, Opening Doors on April 12.

Alexander Dromerick, MD, MedStar NRH VP of the Research Division and Chair and Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine at Georgetown University, along with being the co-director of the Center for Brain Plasticity and Recovery (a joint program between Georgetown University and MedStar NRH), recently had a very prestigious article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

Curtis Whitehair, MD, FAAPMR, program director for the Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation residency program at MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital/MedStar Georgetown University Hospital is one of just 10 recipients of a 2016 Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).

The Chinese Delegation from Henan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine recently visited MedStar National Rehabilitation Network. The Delegation was composed of a group consisting of physicians, deans and professors from the university.

New research at MedStar Rehabilitation Network aims to spot and treat Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs) for spinal cord injury patients, who are being treated for bladder dysfunction. Through a grant pr...