The inaugural Dr. Joel DeLisa PM&R Endowed Lectureship will feature guest speaker Steven Kirshblum, MD, chief medical officer for Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation and chair of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.
All members of the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine community and our partners are invited to attend Hope and Hurdles: The Current Landscape of Spinal Cord Injury Research and Rehabilitation lecture, which will be held at 11:30 a.m. on May 14 at Providence St. Luke’s Rehabilitation Medical Center, Room 200, in Spokane, with a virtual attendance option.
The lectureship was established in 2024 when WSU alumni Joel DeLisa, MD, and Janet Hopper DeLisa established the Dr. Joel DeLisa Endowed Lectureship and Continuing Education Fund in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
The aim of the fund is to advance knowledge in the field of physical medicine and rehabilitation for students, residents, and practitioners in Spokane and beyond. The fund will be used to host annual lectureship series.
Dr. and Mrs. DeLisa are both 1964 WSU graduates. Dr. De Lisa went on to become the founding director of Kessler Medical Rehabilitation Research and Education Center and authored the internationally recognized textbook DeLisa’s Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: Principles and Practice, now in its sixth edition.