Salia Rehab

Jenna is a physical therapist with a Doctorate in Physical Therapy (DPT) from Temple University. She received her B.A in Communication Disorders and Biopsychology from William Paterson University of New Jersey. During her studies, she completed multiple clinical and research affiliations at NYU Langone Health, New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, and the Department of Veterans Affairs. She previously served as a physical therapist at NYU Langone Rusk Rehabilitation where she gained experience in adult acute care and adult inpatient neurological rehabilitation. Her areas of clinical and research interest include knowledge translation into neurological rehabilitation practice and the role of novel technology in motor recovery following neurological injury.

Steve Wolf is a physical therapist clinician and neuroscientist who received his PT training at Columbia and Boston Universities and his doctoral training at Emory University where he is a Professor in several departments. He explores novel interventions to improve extremity use in patients with stroke as well as mechanisms of cortical reorganization and inter-joint coordination associated with these resulting improvements. Within the past 23 years he has led several NIH funded clinical trials governing these concepts. Relevant to this proposal, work over the past 3 years on the use of implanted vagus nerve stimulation to access pathways to sensory and motor cortices in stroke survivors contributes to an emerging scope of explorations that facilitates planned knowledge translation activities. These activities lay the groundwork for clinical implementation of future evidence generated from clinical trials built upon our foundational studies in cortical stimulation to enhance upper extremity post-stroke functional capacity.