Betty Chernack, MD
Betty joins us as an Assistant Professor of PM&R on the Academic Clinician track. She is a graduate of Pomona College (Neuroscience) in Claremont, CA,and Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia. She received residency training within the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard University based at the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston, MA. She participated in subspecialty fellowship training in Hospice and Palliative Medicine at Rowan University based at the Cooper University Hospital in Camden, NJ. She becomes an excellent addition to our evolving program in cancer rehabilitation.
Stephen Hampton, MD
Stephen joins us as an Assistant Professor in PM&R on the Clinical Educator track. He attended Trinity University (Biology) in San Antonio, TX, and University of Texas School of Medicine in Houston. He received residency training within the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark, NJ. He participated in subspecialty fellowship training in Brain Injury Medicine, at the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School based at the Kessler Institute of Rehabilitation in West Orange, NJ. He provides clinical and academic depth to our neurological rehabilitation programs.
Flavia Vitale, PhD
Flavia joins us as an Assistant Professor and was jointly recruited as research faculty by Penn’s Departments of Neurology and PM&R for the tenure track. She is trained as a biomedical engineer at the Universta Campus Bio-Medico di Roma in Rome, Italy. Her doctoral training in chemical engineering occurred at the Universita di Roma “La Sapienza” also in Rome. She participated in a postdoctoral fellowship funded by the Robert A. Welch Research Foundation in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Rice University in Houston, TX. She continued her post-doctoral training within Penn Neurology’s Center for Neuroengineering and Therapeutics. She will collaborate with the Singh Center for Nanotechnology at Penn, developing and testing bioelectronic devices with the aim of product development for therapeutic purposes within rehabilitation. She brings even more depth to our biomedical engineering rehabilitation research programs.
Jasmine Y. Zheng, MD
Jasmine joins us as an Assistant Professor of PM&R on the Academic Clinician track. She attended the University of Michigan (Cell and Molecular Biology, Medical Anthropology) in Ann Arbor, MI, and the George Washington School of Medicine in Washington, DC. She received her residency training in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Michigan. She is a general physiatrist with subspecialty interest in cancer rehabilitation.