Gerard E. Francisco, MD

Professor and Chair of PM&R
University of Texas McGovern Medical School and TIRR Memorial Hermann, Houston, Texas, USA
Houston, Texas, United States

Gerard E. Francisco, M.D., is the Wulfe Family Chair in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R), and chairman and professor in the Department of PM&R at McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). Concurrently, he is the Chief Medical Officer of TIRR (The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research) Memorial Hermann Hospital. Dr. Francisco's expertise include brain injury medicine, stroke rehabilitation, spasticity management ,and technology-facilitated rehabilitation. He was inducted to the National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine) in 2017. Prior to that he was the AAPMR Walter J. Zeiter Lecturer in 2011 and the International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (ISPRM) Sidney Licht Lecturer in 2016. Dr. Francisco received the AAPMR Distinguished Member Award in 2015. He is past president of the Association of Academic Physiatrists from 2015-2017 and was recipient of its Distinguished Academician Award in 2020. Dr. Francisco is President-Elect of the ISPRM, chair of the Brain Injury Medicine committee and secretary of the American Board of PM&R, founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of ISPRM and past chair of the Residency Review Committee of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (2014-2017). He is a recipient of grants from the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation, various foundations and industry, for his research in spasticity, rehabilitation robotics and neuromodulation.

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Presentation(s):

• OnabotulinumtoxinA Treatment of Upper Limb Spasticity: Analysis of US Practice Patterns From the ASPIRE Study

  Thursday, November 10, 2022
  4:14 PM – 4:30 PM

• Bringing Evidence-Based Paired Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS) Therapy to the Clinic

  Friday, November 11, 2022
  1:00 PM – 2:15 PM