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Research Scientist
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital. Harvard Medical School
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Dr. Gloria Vergara-Diaz is a physiatrist from Spain. She received her Medical Degree in 2008 and her master degree in Biomedical Research in 2011 from Universidad de Sevilla (Seville, Spain). She completed the training program in the specialty of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Virgen del Rocío University Hospital in Seville (Spain) in 2013. After the residency program, she was working in the same hospital as a physiatrist in the Trauma ER and in the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Department.
She is currently a Research Scientist in the Motion Analysis Lab at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and the Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School, and she has recently completed her PhD work at University of Seville.
She is interested in the rehabilitation of individuals with neurological disorders, in pediatric rehabilitation and in the management of patients with disabling conditions. She is experienced in doing evaluations, monitoring outcomes and providing therapeutic interventions.
Her main research interest is focused on addressing gait difficulties in children with cerebral palsy by integrating concepts from physical medicine and rehabilitation, engineering, neuroscience and computer science. Her publications are mainly related to neurological disorders and much of her current research that has yet to yield publications is focused on the evaluation of motor control and the optimization of rehabilitation strategies in people with neurological disorders.
