Biography
Paul. F. Pasquina, M.D., Colonel,
U.S. Army (ret)
Dr. Pasquina is the Professor and Inaugural Chair
of the Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R) at the
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) and the Chief of
the Department of Rehabilitation at Walter Reed National Military Medical
Center (WRNMMC). His board
certifications include PM&R, Electrodiagnostic Medicine, and Pain Medicine. He is a graduate of the United States
Military Academy at West Point and USUHS.
He completed a fellowship in primary care sports medicine from USUHS and
Georgetown University. His current research efforts are focused on exploring
new technologies to enhance the recovery, rehabilitation, and reintegration of
combat casualties, particularly those with extremity trauma and traumatic brain
injury. These efforts are primarily
concentrated through his positions as the Director of the Center for
Rehabilitation Sciences Research (www.CRSR.org ) and Co-Principle Investigator within the
Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine (www.usuhs.mil/cnrm/)
Prior to his retirement from active military
service, he served as the Chief of the Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation
at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, which also included the Amputee
and Traumatic Brain Injury Services. He has served as the PM&R specialty
consultant to the Army Surgeon General; Senior Medical Officer of the
Ortiz Level II Military
Treatment Facility, International Zone, Baghdad, Iraq; and a Secretarial appointee for the U.S.
Department of Veterans Affairs’ Advisory Committee on Prosthetics and Special
Disabilities Programs. He continues to serve as a consultant to the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), U.S. Army’s Medical Research and
Material Command (MRMC), Food & Drug Agency (FDA), and as a member of the
Board of Visitors for the Volgenau School of Engineering, Department of
Bioengineering, George Mason University and University of Pittsburgh School of
Health and Rehabilitation Sciences.
Dr. Pasquina has received multiple military
awards, as well as awards for teaching and mentorship, including the U.S.
Army’s “A” Proficiency Designation for academic excellence, the Order of Military Medical Merit,
the Legion of Merit with two oak leaf clusters, da Vinci Lifetime Achievement
Award, Partners in Progress Heroes of Military Medicine Award, Lewis Aspey
Mologne Award, Alfred Mann Foundation Scientist of Year Award, Distinguished Clinician Award from the
American Academy of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Chapel of the Four
Chaplains Legion of Honor Bronze Medallion Bronze, and Honorary Fellow of the
Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America
(RESNA).
He has authored several books, multiple book
chapters, and numerous journal articles and policy papers. His work as the co-editor
of the Textbook of Military Medicine: Care of the Combat Amputee, was
recognized with the First Place award for Technical Text from the Washington
Book Publishers Association in 2010.