Leighton Chan

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Leighton Chan is an American medical researcher and rehabilitation physician. He is Chief of the Rehabilitation Medicine Department and Acting Chief Scientific Officer/Scientific Director at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center. [1]

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Career

Chan received his B.A. degree from Dartmouth College, in Hanover, New Hampshire, with a major in political science. He graduated from the UCLA School of Medicine in 1990. He then completed postgraduate training in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Washington. During his training, he also obtained a Master of Science degree in Rehabilitation Science. Subsequently, he completed a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar Fellowship, earned a Master of Public Health degree in Health Services at the University of Washington School of Public Health, and was a Congressional Fellow for Jim McDermott (Washington). [1]

From 1994 to 2006, Chan was on the faculty of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine of the University of Washington (UW). At the UW, he was Medical Director of UWMC's outpatient program, including clinics in Back Pain, EMG and Pulmonary Rehabilitation. He also spent several years as a consultant to a UWMC Sub-Acute Rehabilitation facility. Chan was also deeply involved in training as a member of the UW Residency Training and Admissions Committees, and as the Chair of the Annual UW PM&R Review Course.[ citation needed ]

He is board certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. His research interests include health services research, disability assessment, brain injury and pulmonary rehabilitation. His research has received financial support in excess of $45 million. He has published more than 190 peer reviewed articles, including 10 in The New England Journal of Medicine , JAMA , and The Lancet . [2]

In 2013, Chan was named the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, the largest and most cited journal in the field.

Academic degrees

Awards

Chan’s awards include the Young Academician Award from the Association of Academic Physiatrists, two outstanding teacher awards from the University of Washington School of Medicine, and a Presidential Citation Award for excellence in research by the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. [3] He has also received four NIH Director’s Awards and three NIH Clinical Center Director's Award for his work in Bethesda. Chan has also won the Distinguished Academician Award from the Association of Academic Physiatrists, [4] the Distinguished Public Service Award from the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, [5] Rene Jaheil Award for Excellence in Disability Research from AcademyHealth, and the Debbra Flomenhoft Humanitarian Award from Oncology Section of the American Physical Therapy Association. Recently, Chan received the Daniel Webster Award for Distinguished Public Service from the Dartmouth Club of Washington, [6] D.C, and the Health and Human Services (HHS) Award for Excellence in Management. [7] This award is the third highest honor award granted by HHS and is conferred by the Secretary. In 2007, he was one of the youngest individuals elected to the National Academy of Medicine,. [1]

Selected publications

Books and book chapters

See also

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "NIH Clinical Center Senior Staff: Leighton Chan, MD, MPH". National Institutes of Health Clinical Center.
  2. ↑ "Leighton Chan, MD, MPH, FACRM". American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine.
  3. ↑ "American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation".
  4. ↑ AAP. "AAP Award Winners - Association of Academic Physiatrists".
  5. ↑ "Past Award Recipients". aapmr.org. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
  6. ↑ "Past Award Recipients". dc1.dartmouth.org. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
  7. ↑ HHS Departmental Awards Virtual Ceremony – May 4, 2022 , retrieved 2022-11-28
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