PM&R Awareness and Value Award

David S. Rosenblum, M.D., FAAPMR

Dr. Rosenblum was drawn to the field of physiatry after witnessing the functional difference the discipline could make in the lives of those recovering from life-altering illnesses or injuries. Board-certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spinal Cord Injury Medicine and Brain Injury Medicine, he joined Gaylord Specialty Healthcare in 1992. Along with his interdisciplinary team, he has helped propel Gaylord Specialty Healthcare to the national forefront of clinical care, rehabilitation and research. As director of Gaylord’s Spinal Cord Injury Program, he led Gaylord Hospital to be among the first in the nation to use the intrathecal baclofen pump for the treatment of severe spasticity and to pioneer in the usage of exoskeletal robotic technology to allow people with spinal cord injuries or lower extremity paralysis or weakness to stand and walk.

For the past 16 years, Dr. Rosenblum has been the research site director at Gaylord Hospital as part of the Model SCI Systems, most recently with the Spaulding New England Regional Spinal Cord Injury Model system where he is the co-director of Clinical Care. In 2020, Dr. Rosenblum became the medical director for Gaylord’s Milne Institute for Healthcare Innovation, a hub for accelerating world-class rehabilitative research, technology development and innovation. He was also instrumental in the design and development of the University of Connecticut PM&R residency program, Connecticut’s first PM&R Residency program. He serves as this program’s associate program director and is the site director for the resident rotations at Gaylord Hospital. He is also an associate clinical professor in the Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Yale School of Medicine.