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George F. Wittenberg, MD, PhD

Professor
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Dr. George Wittenberg, MD, PhD has a tenured appointment as professor in the Department of Neurology and is a Neurologist/Researcher in the Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System. Dr. Wittenberg has secondary appointments in the Departments of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and Bioengineering. He is Director of the Laboratory for Research on Arm Function and Therapy (RAFT), one of the Rehab Neural Engineering Labs. He arrived in Pittsburgh in 2018 as the outgoing Director of the VA Maryland Exercise and Robotics Center of Excellence.

Dr. Wittenberg received training at Harvard, UC San Diego, Washington U., St. Louis, and the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Wittenberg's overall goal is the restoration of voluntary movement after neurological injury and in neurological disorders. His clinical and research interests are in neurorehabilitation, stroke, cerebral palsy and movement disorders. He uses transcranial magnetic stimulation, functional imaging, and rehabilitation robotics to study recovery of motor function.

Dr. Wittenberg is a Fellow of the American Society of Neurorehabilitation and Board Certified in Neurology and Brain Injury Medicine. He is an Associate Editor of Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair and on the Executive Committees of the National Center of Neuromodulation for Rehabilitation and the Neurorehabilitation and Restorative Neuroscience Training Network (NRNTN, a K12 program).

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