Primary Faculty Members

Kennedy Krieger Institute International Center for Spinal Cord Injury: Adult/Pediatrics Outpatient and Pediatrics Inpatient

Philippines Cabahug, MD

  • Director, Spinal Cord Injury Medicine Fellowship Program
  • Assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  • Board certification: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (2013), Spinal Cord Injury Medicine (2013)

Travis Edmiston, MD 

  • Attending, spinal cord injury medicine, inpatient and outpatient care across the lifespan
  • Assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  • Board certification: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (2018), Spinal Cord Injury Medicine (2023)

Rebecca Martin, OTR/L, OTD, CPAM 

  • Manager, clinical education and training
  • Assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  • Board certification: National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy (2001)

Albert Recio, MD, PT 

  • Medical director, Aquatic Therapy Program
  • Clinical and research director, Virtual Sailing Simulator Research Program
  • Assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  • Board certification: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (2009), Spinal Cord Injury Medicine (2011)
  • Specialty certification: The International Society for Clinical Densitometry

Cristina Sadowsky, MD 

  • Clinical director and co-founder
  • Assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  • Board certification: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (1999), Spinal Cord Injury Medicine (2000)
  • Specialty certification: Rare Neuroimmunologic Disorders, The International Society for Clinical Densitometry

University of Maryland Rehabilitation & Orthopaedic Institute: Acute Inpatient

Peter Gorman, MD 

  • Chief, Division of Rehabilitation Medicine
  • Associate professor of neurology, University of Maryland School of Medicine
  • Board certification: Neurology (1991), Spinal Cord Injury Medicine (2019)

Melita Theyagaraj, MBBS 

  • Director, Multitrauma Rehabilitation Unit
  • Assistant professor of neurology, University of Maryland School of Medicine
  • Board certification: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (2006), Spinal Cord Injury Medicine (2007)

The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center: Nontraumatic Spinal Cord Dysfunction

Tae Hwan Chung, MD 

  • Clinical associate, neuromuscular medicine and spinal cord injury medicine
  • Assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation and of neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  • Board certification: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (2012)

Scott Newsome, DO 

  • Director, Neurosciences Consultation and Infusion Center at Green Spring Station
  • Director, Stiff Person Syndrome Center
  • Co-director, Multiple Sclerosis Experimental Therapeutics Program
  • Director, Optical Coherence Tomography Clinic
  • Associate professor of neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  • Board certification: Neurology (2008)

Carlos A. Pardo-Villamizar, MD 

  • Director, Johns Hopkins Transverse Myelitis Center
  • Associate professor of neurology-neuroimmunology and neurological infections, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  • Board certification: Neurology (2001)

Malcolm Winkle, MD 

  • Attending physician, neurological rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
  • Clinical instructor of physical medicine and rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  • Board certification: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (2023), Spinal Cord Injury Medicine (2023)