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Ashraf S. Gorgey is currently the Director of Spinal Cord Injury Research at Hunter Holmes McGuire at VA Medical Center and Professor at the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Virginia Commonwealth University. He has a bachelor and master degrees in Physical Therapy from Cairo University in 1994 and 2000, respectively. He acquired his PhD in Exercise Physiology in 2005 with special emphasis on electrical stimulation, muscle activation and fatigue from the University of Georgia. In 2007, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan with special focus on studying the medical consequences, body composition and metabolic changes after spinal cord injury (SCI). His research background is in Rehabilitation and Exercise Physiology with special interest in individuals with SCI. His research work has focused on investigating rehabilitation strategies that could improve the quality of life in individuals with SCI and minimize the SCI health related secondary complications. Dr. Gorgey is primarily interested in applications of electrical stimulation, and the capability of utilizing exercise intervention to evoke skeletal muscle hypertrophy, favorable body composition and metabolic profiles in persons with chronic SCI. He is also interested in understanding the cellular and molecular adaptations to unloading and hypertrophy. Recently, he has been investigating the effects of exoskeleton rehabilitation, epidural stimulation, trans-spinal stimulation on motor recovery after SCI. His research has received a national recognition by different organizations, including the Department of Veteran Affairs and Department of Defense. Dr. Gorgey has published more than 150 peer-reviewed articles and presented nationally as well as internationally in different scientific meetings.
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