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Department Head and Professor
UMN SOM
Dr. Leslie Morse, DO, is Chair and Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Minnesota School of Medicine. She is also Co-Project Director of the recently funded Minnesota Regional Spinal Cord Injury Model System. Her research, as well as her clinical focus, is the care of individuals with SCI, with a long-term goal of developing mechanism-based therapies to prevent and treat secondary health complications after injury. To that end, she is studying the impact of exoskeleton-assisted ambulation on bone health, neuropathic pain, and quality of life after SCI (a clinical trial supported by the Department of Defense). Dr. Morse completed her medical training at the University of New England and her residency in PM&R at Boston Medical Center. Author of more than 90 publications, she has received several national awards and presented her work nationally and internationally.
Research interests: spinal cord injury and osteoporosis, neuropathic pain, therapies for bone health in SCI, health benefits of exercise in SCI, biomarkers of neurological recovery