 | Dr. Elliot Roth and Dr. Amy Bastian with donor Judith Rubin (l to r) |
Honoring a Physical Medicine Pioneer The Inaugural David Rubin, MD, Lectureship In honor of medical school alumnus, David Rubin, MD, the Northwestern University Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation hosted the inaugural David Rubin, MD, Lectureship on June 24. Held at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, the lecture was opened by Elliot J. Roth, MD, Paul B. Magnuson Professor and chair of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation of the Feinberg School of Medicine, who remarked on the occasion’s importance to the department and all physicians dedicated to the field. Dr. Roth went on to introduce the visiting lecturer, Amy J. Bastian, PhD, PT, Director of the Motion Analysis Laboratory at Kennedy Krieger Institute and associate professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. In her address, “Does Our Current Understanding of Motor Adaptation and Learning Help Rehabilitation?” Dr. Bastian described how motor adaptation and learning are essential for rehabilitation, and can be used as metrics to determine how patients can generate more normal movement patterns over time. As the author of more than 40 articles and four book chapters, Dr. Bastian’s research covers a variety of processes, ranging from visual perceptual to fundamental motor actions including balance, arm/hand control, and walking. She is a member of the Society for Neuroscience Program Committee, the Society for Neuroscience, Society for the Neural Control of Movement, American Physical Therapy Association-neurology section awards committee, and the American Physiological Society. The David Rubin, MD, Enrichment Fund in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Feinberg School of Medicine was created by Judith Rubin in recognition of her late father. Dr. Rubin earned his bachelor’s degree and doctorate in zoology from the University of Chicago in 1939 and 1943, and in 1947, he earned his medical degree from Northwestern University. Upon completing his residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation at Los Angeles County General Hospital, Dr. Rubin served as a physician at the California Rehabilitation Center from 1948 to 1951 and 1955 to 1956. In the interim, he served as a Captain in the United States Army at the Percy Jones Army Hospital and Brooke Army Hospital, where he was in charge of amputee training. Subsequently, Dr. Rubin was Chief, Department of Physical Medicine, at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles from 1961 to 1966, and senior attending staff from 1966 until his retirement. Additionally, he was a consultant with the Veterans Administration (Department of Veterans Affairs) from 1959 until 1986, and from 1956 until his retirement, Dr. Rubin also had a full-time physical medicine and rehabilitation private practice.
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