Skip to main content
ACRM 100th Annual Conference Main banner
InBody BWA
Final Program


Back

Gerben DeJong, PhD, FACRM

ACRM Past President; Senior Fellow & Professor
MedStar NRH & Georgetown U School of Med
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Naples, Florida, United States

Gerben DeJong, PhD, FACRM is a Senior Fellow for Health Policy & Post-acute Care at the MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital (MNRH) and serves as Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at the Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, DC. .

Prior to rejoining MedStar NRH in late 2004, Dr. DeJong served a 2-year stint with the University of Florida as a professor in the Department of Health Services Research, Management & Policy. Previously until 2001, Dr. DeJong served for 16 years (1985-2001) as MedStar NRH’s founding Director of Research and as Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, DC.

Dr. DeJong has conducted many multi-center clinical and health outcome studies. He is the author or co-author of nearly 300 papers on clinical interventions, health outcomes, health policy, health care financing, and post-acute care. For the last 40 years, Dr. DeJong has also tracked the American post-acute health care system and its publicly traded companies, especially their growth, development, and consolidation. He is also an avid student of health care reform and has lectured widely on the topic.

In 2006-07, Dr. DeJong served as President of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine. He has served on many boards, both advisory and fiduciary. Dr. DeJong is the recipient of many awards and is a frequently invited speaker both in the United States and abroad. In 1984, he was a Fulbright Scholar in the Netherlands. In 2013, Dr. DeJong was the William Evans Visiting Fellow with the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery & Musculoskeletal Medicine at University of Otago and the Burwood Academy in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Presentation(s):