UPMC Medical Education Brain Injury Medicine (Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation) people

Director, Brain Injury Medicine Fellowship

Brain injury medicine physician, Professor at UPMC Medical Education

Director, Brain Injury Medicine Fellowship

Amy Wagner earned a biology degree at Illinois State University and an MD at Northwestern University Medical School before completing physical medicine and rehabilitation residency at the Charlotte Institute of Rehabilitation. She is a professor at the University of Pittsburgh, directs UPMC’s Brain Injury Medicine Fellowship, and practices brain injury rehabilitation. Her research centers on rehabilitation biomarkers, neuroplasticity and recovery after traumatic brain injury, and cardiac arrest. She coined the term “Rehabilomics” for rehabilitation-centered biomarker research.

Rehabilomics and biomarker-guided personalized rehabilitation after traumatic brain injury, Neurobiology of neuroplasticity and recovery after traumatic brain injury, Cognitive training and rehabilitation paradigms after experimental traumatic brain injury, Dopamine-focused neurorehabilitation following cardiac arrest

Gary Galang, MD

Assistant Director, PM&R Fellowship Programs

Brain injury medicine physician, Assistant Professor at UPMC Medical Education

Traumatic brain injury, acquired brain injury, spinal cord injury, spasticity, post-concussive syndrome, neurotoxins, and motor neuron disease

Kevin Franzese, DO

Assistant Director, Brain Injury Medicine Fellowship

Brain injury medicine physician, Assistant Professor at UPMC Medical Education

Brain injury medicine, medical education

Alissa Totman, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor

Brain injury medicine physician, Assistant Professor at UPMC Medical Education

management of brain injury, spasticity, botulinum toxin injections, medical education