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Leighton Chan, MD, MPH

Co-Editor-in-Chief
Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Bethesda, Maryland, United States

Dr. Leighton Chan is a Tenured Senior Scientist and the Chief of Rehabilitation Medicine at the NIH Clinical Research Center, a 200-bed research hospital on the NIH campus. Born and raised in New York City, he received his BA degree from Dartmouth College and his MD from the UCLA School of Medicine. He received residency training at the University of Washington in Seattle. Subsequently, he completed a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar Research Fellowship and was a Congressional Fellow for the Honorable Jim McDermott (Washington). In 2007, after 10 years on the faculty of the University of Washington, Dr. Chan took his current position at NIH where he manages a department of 120 staff and students who support NIH's Intramural Research Program.

Dr Chan is also the Co-Director of the Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine (CNRM), one of the largest Traumatic Brain Injury research centers in the world. The CNRM links the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, the Uniform Services University with the NIH Intramural Research Program and focuses on improving the recovery of injured warfighters.

Dr. Chan has published more than 192 peer reviewed articles, including 11 in JAMA, Lancet and NEJM. He is currently the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, the oldest and largest academic journal in the field of rehabilitation. In 2007, he was elected to the Institute of Medicine (now the National Academy of Medicine). In his free time, he enjoys fly fishing and woodworking.

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