Bio — Scientific Advisory Board member

Jonathan Fellus, M.D.

Dr. Fellus is currently the Director of Brain Injury Services and Director of the Spasticity Clinic at Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation. He completed his medical internship at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and completed neurology training at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, PA. He also completed a Neurorehabilitation Fellowship at University of Maryland Medical System's Kernan Rehabilitation Hospital, with a focus on brain injury rehabilitation.

He is a frequent lecturer on brain injury topics and is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosciences at UMDNJ. He sits on the Board of Directors for the Brain Injury Association of New Jersey, the Physician's Advisory Board of the Epilepsy Foundation of New Jersey, and the American Society of Neurorehabilitation; and has been appointed to the Governor's panel on brain injury research.

Dr. Fellus has been named by his peers as among the Best Doctors in New Jersey/New York Metro area. Publication topics that he has contributed to are neurorehabilitation and brain injury rehabilitation. He supports research in these areas with a particular interest in neuropsychopharmacological management of posttraumatic cognitive, behavioural and mood/emotional disorders as well as promoting motor and functional recover through the use of pharmacologic agents.

He has assisted in establishing the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation's Severe Disorders of Consciousness Program which has led to a significant increase in the number of patients being referred regionally and nationally.

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