Bruce Dobkin, MD, FRCP

Bruce H. Dobkin, MD, FRCP, is Professor of Clinical Neurology at the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; Director of the Neurologic Rehabilitation and Research Program; and Co-Director of the Wireless Health Institute and the Stroke Center. He is editor of the journal Neurorehabilitation & Neural Repair, ranked first in its field for the past 7 years. He has published 4 single-authored books, including The Clinical Science of Neurologic Rehabilitation (Oxford Press) and Brain Matters, Stories of a Neurologist and his Patients (Crown Publ), along with over 175 scientific articles related to neurorehabiliation, stroke and brain and spinal cord injury. He was also a columnist for the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Discover, and other lay publications. He has been continuously funded for research in motor control, functional neuroimaging, wireless health, and as the principal investigator of multi-center clinical trials by foundations and the National Institutes of Health since 1990. He has trained 28 research fellows, served as the PI of 2 T32s from NIH for 10 years, and teaches clinical research for the CTSI and as the PI of the NINDS NeuroNEXT site at UCLA. He helped develop and then directed the Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson Medical Research Foundation for studies in neural repair and cancer. Since 2009, he has collaborated with UCLA engineers and computer scientists on developing and testing mobile health devices, including wireless inertial sensors with activity pattern-recognition algorithms for laboratory quality monitoring of complex physical actions and new health outcome measures for daily care.