Leighton Chan, M.D., M.P.H.
Dr. Leighton Chan, the Chief of Rehabilitation Medicine at the NIH Clinical Center, is a Diplomate of the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and the American Board of Electrodiagnostic Medicine. Dr. Chan received his B.A. degree from Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire with a major in political science. He graduated from the UCLA School of Medicine in 1990. Dr. Chan then completed postgraduate training in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Washington. During his training he also obtained a Master of Science degree in rehabilitation science. Subsequently, he completed a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar Fellowship, earned a master of public health degree at the University of Washington School of Public Health and was a Congressional Fellow for the Honorable Jim McDermott (Washington). From 1994 to 2006, Dr. Chan was on the faculty of the University of Washington's Department of Rehabilitation Medicine. From 2002 to 2006, he was associate professor. He has published more than 40 peer reviewed articles and numerous book chapters. His research interests include health services research, quality of care given to Medicare beneficiaries, and Medicare payment policy issues.

Galen O. Joe, M.D.
Dr. Galen O. Joe, a senior staff physiatrist and Director of the Rehabilitation Medicine Consult Service at the NIH Clinical Center, is a Diplomate of the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. He completed his undergraduate education at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA; post-graduate medical education at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Piscataway, NJ; and dual residency training in Internal Medicine and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Joe completed senior staff fellowship training in musculoskeletal rehabilitation medicine in the Rehabilitation Medicine Department at the NIH Clinical Center. He is currently involved in research protocols looking at evaluation, conservative management and monitoring of patients with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Type 1, avascular necrosis of the hip in HIV disease and assessment of impairments and function in inflammatory myopathies. His research interests are general, musculoskeletal, rheumatologic, and cardiopulmonary rehabilitation medicine. He currently collaborates on research protocols with NIAMS, NINR, NHGRI, NIEHS, NINDS and NIAID.

Li Li, M.D.
Dr. Li Li, a staff physiatrist in Rehabilitation Medicine at the NIH Clinical Center, is a Diplomate of the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation as well the American Board of Electrodiagnostic Medicine. She completed her residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School, Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation in 2001. Prior to her joining the NIH, she was an attending physician at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; an assistant professor at the Medical College of Virginia. Her clinical interests include electrodiagnosis (focal peripheral neuropathies such as carpal tunnel syndrome, radiculopathies, plexopathies, peripheral neuropathies, and plexopathies), musculoskeletal rehabilitation, pain management, and general rehabilitation. Her research interests are musculoskeletal medicine as well electrodiagnostic medicine. Dr. Li is currently involved in a number of NIH research protocols with NCI and NINDS.

Scott M. Paul, M.D.
Dr. Scott M. Paul, a senior staff physiatrist, Rehabilitation Medicine at the NIH Clinical Center, is a Diplomate of the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation with subspecialty certification in Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine.  He received his Bachelor of Engineering Science in bioengineering from the Johns Hopkins University in 1980. Dr. Paul attended the New York State Student?s Program at the Sackler School of Medicine of the Tel Aviv University in Israel and received his medical degree in 1985. Dr. Paul began his post-graduate medical training at Washington University in St Louis and completed residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY. He continued at Albert Einstein to complete a fellowship in Pediatric Rehabilitation at the Rose F. Kennedy Center. Prior to joining the NIH in 2001, Dr. Paul was in private practice in Montgomery County, Maryland with Rehabilitation Medical Director responsibilities at Montgomery General, Shady Grove Adventist and Gladys Spellman Specialty Hospitals.  He previously served as Chief of Physical Medicine at Dayton Children?s Medical Center and Director of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Hospital for Sick Children in Washington, DC.   Dr. Paul is the Research Coordinator for the Medical Staff Section of the Rehabilitation Medicine Department.  He is the principal investigator of the department?s omnibus screening protocol, which enables staff to study new rehabilitation techniques, tools and equipment.  In addition, he serves as an associate investigator in the NIH?s osteogenesis imperfecta, polyostotic fibrous dysplasia, neonatal onset multisystem inflammatory disease, Friedreich's ataxia, and cerebral palsy protocols.  He has authored a number of abstracts, articles and book chapters relating to childhood onset disabilities.

Monique B. Perry, M.D.
Dr. Monique B. Perry, a senior staff physiatrist in Rehabilitation Medicine at the NIH Clinical Center, is a Diplomate of the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Dr. Perry received her Bachelor of Science degree from Howard University where she graduated Magna Cum Laude and was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society. She graduated from Howard University College of Medicine. Dr. Perry completed her residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, D.C. She completed a fellowship in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine at the Portner Orthopedic Rehabilitation Inc. in Honolulu, Hawaii. Dr. Perry completed a musculoskeletal medicine senior staff fellowship in Rehabilitation Medicine at the NIH Clinical Center. Dr. Perry is the Quality Assurance Coordinator for the medical staff for Rehabilitation Medicine. She is currently involved in research involving impairment, functional performance and disability in the treatment of alkaptonuria, progeria, Smith Magenis Syndrome, and obesity. Dr. Perry has research interests in general rehabilitation, musculoskeletal medicine, arthritis, orthopedic medicine, and electrodiagnostic medicine. Dr. Perry currently collaborates on research protocols with NHGRI and NIDDK.

Jay P. Shah, M.D.
Jay P. Shah is a senior staff physiatrist in the Rehabilitation Medicine at the NIH Clinical Center. He completed his residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at New York Medical College in Valhalla, N.Y. Dr. Shah is a Diplomate of the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. His clinical research interests include the pathophysiology of myofascial pain and the integration of physical medicine techniques with promising complementary approaches in the management of neuromusculoskeletal pain and dysfunction. He is the Director of the Medical Rehabilitation training program for Rehabilitation Medicine. Dr. Shah lectures extensively on mechanisms of chronic pain, myofascial pain, acupuncture techniques and other related topics. He and his co-investigators at the NIH are utilizing novel microanalytical techniques to study the unique biochemical milieu of myofascial trigger points. He is also an instructor in medical acupuncture courses at Harvard Medical School and New York Medical College.