Dr. Douglas Katz
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Douglas I. Katz, MD is Associate Professor of Neurology at Boston University School of Medicine. He received his undergraduate degree from Brandeis University and medical degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and completed his neurology training at Boston University. Following a fellowship in behavioral neurology at Boston University and the Boston VA, he has focused his clinical, teaching and research career on neurorehabilitation and brain injury and is a recognized expert in the field. He has been Medical Director of the Brain Injury Program at Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital in Massachusetts for over 25 years, one of the first dedicated brain injury rehabilitation programs in the US. Dr. Katz’s research interests include predictors of recovery after traumatic brain injury (TBI), disorders of consciousness after brain injury, brain-behavior relationships of cognitive impairments after TBI, rehabilitation and pharmacologic treatment of cognitive problems after TBI, and he has numerous publications in these areas. He has co-edited two books, including a comprehensive text on brain injury with Nathan Zasler and Ross Zafonte, Brain Injury Medicine, soon to be released in its 2nd edition. Dr. Katz has been actively engaged in neurorehalitation education and training including serving as chair of the Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital Annual Neurorehabilitation Conference since 1988 and director of the neurorehabilation fellowship at Boston University. He is currently Chair of the ASNR and AAN Neurorehabilitation Section Committee for UCNS subspecialty certification. He is involved in five neurorehabilitation editorial boards including Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair and has been invited to speak at over 90 Neurorehabilitation presentations nationally and internationally. Dr. Katz is on the Board of Governors and is Vice President of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, and was recently on the Board of Directors of the American Society of Neurorehabilitation and the Brain Injury Association of America. He was Chair of the Section on Neural Repair and Rehabilitation for the American Academy of Neurology. He serves on several editorial boards, including Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair and the Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation. His honors also include the prestigious Sheldon Berrol Clinical Services Award from the Brain Injury Association of America.
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