Welcome
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Who We Are
Welcome to the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Our mission is to optimize health and function of individuals with disabilities through a patient-centered continuum of care, with the goal of improving quality of life.
We invite you to browse our web site and learn more about our patients!
Our faculty are doctors and psychologists in rehabilitation medicine who provide clinical care, teaching, research and advocacy primarily in North Carolina, but also through outreach to benefit rehabilitation patients worldwide.
Our Team Approach
Our rehabilitation doctors, also called physiatrists, manage care through an interdisciplinary rehabilitation team of colleagues from UNC Health Care and other departments. For example, our physiatrists regularly prescribe physical, occupational, speech and recreational therapy, and monitor that therapy over time. They attend care conferences with nurses, social workers, care managers, therapists and other specialists to let the patient and family ask questions and make important decisions.
The UNC Advantage
Our patients benefit from the wider interdisciplinary team, and also from immediate access to the university's full range of medical resources. Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation is proud to join other programs at UNC in exceeding national standards.
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Our Local & Global Partnerships
Our faculty members and staff continue to improve rehabilitation care locally and globally through support groups, education, research and telecommunications, expanding UNC's rehabilitation resources to individuals and families.
Residents participate in our Global Partnership in Medical Rehabilitation, and we continue to welcome participants from other countries, as delegations and in our international visiting scholars program.
