Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
– United States
Jonathan F. Bean, MD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School. He served as the Director of Research and Training for the Dept. of PM&R and Partner’s Continuing Care until January 2015. He is also the Medical Director of the Spaulding Cambridge Outpatient Center. In April 2015, Dr. Bean will become the Director of the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, which is based at the Boston and Bedford VAMCs. He is the first Physiatrist to ever be appointed as director of a VA GRECC site. Dr. Bean also serves on the editorial board of the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, the Governance committee of the Association of Academic Physiatrists and served as the liaison between the American Academy of PM&R and the American Geriatrics Society until 2014. Dr. Bean is an internationally recognized expert in geriatric rehabilitative care having extensive experience in the conduct of clinical trials and measurement of disablement outcomes. In 1998, he was recipient of the New Investigator Award from the American Academy of PM&R and in 2002, he was the first Physiatrist to be awarded the Jahnigen Career Development Award for Surgical and Related Specialists from the American Geriatrics Society. With advanced training in exercise physiology and epidemiology, his work has focused on mobility problems among older adults addressing both risk factor reduction and disability prevention strategies. He has completed NIH funded observational studies and clinical trials addressing all domains of disablement outcomes. He also has a strong commitment towards the mentorship of trainees within geriatric rehabilitative research, having been awarded a Midcareer Investigator Award (K24) from the National Institute of Health. Within three of the last 10 years his trainees have received best paper awards for their research from the Association of Academic Physiatrists.
Wednesday, November 6
4:45 PM – 6:00 PM
Thursday, November 7
10:30 AM – 11:45 AM
Friday, November 8
12:45 PM – 2:00 PM