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Matthew N. Bartels,MD,MPH, MD, MPH (he/him/his)

Professor in Rehabilitation Medicine
Chair of Rehabilitation Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore, USA

Matthew N. Bartels is the Chairman of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Montefiore Health System/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in the Bronx and Lower Hudson Valley in New York State. He is also Professor and Chairman of the Arthur S. Abramson Department of Rehabilitation Medicine in the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He received his MD and MPH degrees from Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons followed by Internal Medicine and Rehabilitation Medicine Residency Programs at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York. He was a faculty member in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine of Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons and was the inaugural John A. Downey Clinical Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine. At Columbia, Dr. Bartels established the Human Performance Laboratory and directed Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation until September 2013 when he became the chair at the Montefiore Health System.

Dr. Bartels has published multiple scientific and review papers. He is active in reviewing and editing for numerous journals and has served on the editorial board of several journals and Knowledge Now. His areas of interest include cardiopulmonary rehabilitation, transplant rehabilitation, heart failure, advanced lung disease, autonomic physiology, virtual reality, 3D printing, athletic performance enhancement, biomechanical interventions for musculoskeletal pain, exercise and cognition, new technologies to enhance delivery of rehabilitative care, international medicine, and development of new models of post acute care delivery. Dr. Bartels is an invited lecturer to many national and international conferences. Through the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Montefiore Health System, he has been involved in assisting the development of rehabilitation care in several nations, including China and Jamaica, with a focus on education and provision of rehabilitation services, while working to create new pathways and models for post acute care delivery in his own large health system.

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