Stroke Rehabilitation Panel
Plenaries & Panels
Tuesday, September 29th; 11:00 – 11:45am
Stroke Rehabilitation Panel
Meet Our Speakers
Lorie Gage Richards, PhD, OTR/L, FAHA, FAOTA, University of Utah Department of Occupational and Recreational Therapies
Dr. Richards is a licensed occupational therapist with a PhD in Experimental Psychology from Syracuse University. She was been involved in stroke rehabilitation research for over 30 years, having held academic appointments at the University of Kansas Medical Center, the University of Florida and the Malcolm Randall VA Medical Center, and, currently at the University of Utah, where she was Chair from 2011-2026. Dr. Richards research centers mostly on clinical trials testing the efficacy of interventions for hemiparesis post-stroke. Her research has been funded from local, VA, and NIH sources. She is currently a Co-I for a trial to test the effectiveness of a UE telerehabilitation protocol and a site-PI for a study validating an algorithm for predicting UE recovery after stroke, both funded through NIH’s StrokeNet consortium. She’s also a co-I of a newly awarded RO1 testing the efficacy of neurostimulation in UE recovery. She has been the Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Occupational Therapy, a co-editor of the Rehabilitation subsection for Stroke, and is currently a co-editor for the Rehabilitation and Recovery subsection for Frontiers in Stroke. She was a member of the writing group for the 2010 VA/DOD/AHA Management of Stroke Rehabilitation guidelines and the AHA 2016 Stroke Rehabilitation Guidelines.
Lauren Shapiro, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Stroke Rehabilitation Program, Brooks Rehabilitation
Lauren Shapiro, MD, MPH is board certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) and Brain Injury Medicine and serves as the Medical Director of the Stroke Rehabilitation program at Brooks Rehabilitation in Jacksonville, FL. She received her medical degree from the State University of New York (SUNY) Stony Brook School of Medicine and then completed a residency in PM&R at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine program at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, where she served as chief resident. She also earned a Master’s degree in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Dr. Shapiro has considerable experience in both inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation settings and joined Brooks Rehabilitation after 7 years in the Department of PM&R at the University of Miami, where she served as an associate professor. She brings substantial expertise in the rehabilitation care of persons with stroke, traumatic brain injury, and other disabling conditions. She is also a skilled clinician-educator, having mentored numerous medical students, residents, and fellows.
Dr. Shapiro has authored a multitude of book chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles and frequently serves as a panelist for national conferences and webinars. She is the past Chair of the Inpatient Rehabilitation Member Community and the incoming Chair of the Reimbursement Policy Review Committee of the American Academy of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, which awarded her one of the inaugural PM&R Awareness and Value awards in 2023.
Joel Stein, MD, Simon Baruch Professor and Chair, Department of Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons; Professor and Chair, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine; Physiatrist-in-Chief, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
Dr. Joel Stein received his BA from Columbia University, and his MD from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He then completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx, followed by a residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at NewYork Presbyterian Hospital. He was on the staff at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital from 1992-2008, where he served as medical director of the stroke rehabilitation program, and as Chief Medical Officer, as well as a faculty member at Harvard Medical School.
Since 2008, Dr. Stein has served as the Simon Baruch Professor and Chair of the Department of Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, as well as Professor and Chair of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, and Physiatrist-in-Chief at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Stein’s primary clinical and research interests are in the area of stroke and other aspects of neurological rehabilitation. He has been active in research on the use of robotic and other technologies to facilitate recovery after stroke. He has authored or coauthored more than 200 scientific articles, two books on stroke for the lay public, and has served as editor of a comprehensive medical textbook on the subject entitled “Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation” published by Demos Medical Publishing.
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