Council Dates: October 2007 - May 2008
Independent Position: Shirley Ryan AbilityLab and Northwestern University
Dr. Monica Perez was a postdoctoral fellow in the Human Cortical Physiology and Stroke Neurorehabilitation Section at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. Her research focused on identifying the mechanisms of motor learning in patients with incomplete spinal cord injury in order to improve understanding of the underlying neural substrates. She earned her Ph.D. in physical therapy from the University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida and her BS in physical therapy from the Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile. She is currently the Scientific Chair of the Arms + Hands Lab at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab and a Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois.