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Inova Health System and George Mason University
Lynn Gerber, MD, is University Professor Emerita at George Mason University, and Director for Research, Medicine Service Line, Inova Health System. She is former Chief, Department Rehabilitation Medicine, Clinical Center, NIH (retired 2005). She graduated from Tufts University School of Medicine, completed medicine internship and residency at the New England Medical Center and fellowship specializing in rheumatology at National Institutes of Health. She completed residency in PM&R at George Washington University. She is boarded in all three specialties.
Currently, Dr. Gerber mentors residents, undergraduate and graduate students. She directed the Outcomes Program at Beatty Center, Inova (2025) which pursues transdisciplinary research studying performance, perception and proteomics of function, fatigue and pain in people with chronic liver disease and obesity. Dr. Gerber is considered an innovator in these research areas. She was PI of an active protocol investigating fatigue in chronic liver disease and post-COVID syndrome. Currently, she is part of a multi-disciplinary team investigating characteristics of myofascial pain funded through a HEAL grant from NIH (2022-2025, 2026-2030).
Dr. Gerber helped develop the specialty of cancer rehabilitation and has been awarded for this work, for scientific innovation, leadership, humanitarian activities and teaching from Federal Government, universities, foundations and professional societies. She has contributed 17 chapters to textbooks on cancer rehabilitation; has authored/co-authored a total of >200 peer reviewed manuscripts and 45 on the subject of rehabilitation of patients with cancer and has helped develop outcome measures and provide guidance for people with cancer diagnoses. She has received multiple grants in support of her research (NIH, NIDLRR, NSF,PNC Foundation, Inova Foundation). She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine(IOM), elected in 2008.
