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John Whyte, MD, PhD (he/him/his)

Institute Scientist Emeritus
Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute
Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, United States

Dr. Whyte is a physiatrist and experimental psychologist whose research career has focused on rehabilitation after severe brain injury. He is the founding director of the Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, which he continued to lead until 2018 when he transitioned to emeritus status.
Dr. Whyte’s empirical research has focused on severe brain injury with a special emphasis on disorders of consciousness. He has studied longitudinal recovery patterns and long-term outcomes, developed improved assessment methods for attention and consciousness impairments, and provided evidence-based treatments in these domains. In addition to his empirical research, Dr. Whyte has had a long-standing interest in the methodologic challenges that limit progress in rehabilitation research, and innovative solutions for those challenges. Key among these efforts has been his leadership to expand the pool of physiatric researchers, through the Rehabilitation Medicine Scientist Training Program (RMSTP) and his work to develop the Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System (RTSS), a rehabilitation-wide system for defining rehabilitation treatments with respect to their known or hypothesized active ingredients.
Dr. Whyte’s research has been funded by the NIH, NIDILRR, PCORI, the Department of the Army, and a number of private foundations. His
contributions to the field have been recognized by the AAP’s Distinguished Academician and Distinguished Member Awards, by the International Brain Injury Association’s Jennett Plum Award for Scientific Achievement in Brain Injury, and by the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine’s Coulter Lecture and Gold Key Award. In 2015, Dr. Whyte was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

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