John Whyte MD, PHD, FACRM

Dr. Whyte received his MD and a PhD in cognitive psychology at the University of Pennsylvania (1981), completed residency training in physical medicine and rehabilitation at the University of Minnesota (1984), and then a fellowship in neurotrauma at Tufts New England Medical Center and the Greenery Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center (1985). Throughout Dr. Whyte’s career, he has been active in academic pursuits related to rehabilitation, including serving as president of the Association of Academic Physiatrists, and being an active member of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, where his contributions have been recognized with the Distiniguished Academician and Fellow awards, respectively.
He has also served on peer review and scientific planning committees for the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR, now NIDILRR), and the Veterans Administration. Dr. Whyte serves as an associate editor for the American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, and as an ad hoc reviewer for many additional rehabilitation, psychology, and neuroscience journals.
Dr. Whyte is a physiatrist and experimental psychologist specializing in traumatic brain injury rehabilitation. He is the founding director of the Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, begun in 1992. His research focuses on cognitive impairment after TBI, including assessment and treatment, with a major emphasis on disorders of attention, executive function, and consciousness. His research has been funded by NIH, NIDRR, the Department of Defense, and several private foundations. He was a member of two Institute of Medicine policy panels (“The Future of Disability Cognitive Rehabilitation after TBI”, 2011). In addition to his empirical research, he has a longstanding interest in the special challenges posed by rehabilitation treatment trials, the difficulties in defining rehabilitation treatments, and the role of theory in guidingrehabilitation research. In 2008 Dr. Whyte received the Robert L. Moody Prize forDistinguished Initiatives in Brain Injury Research and Rehabilitation Distinguished Academician Award from the Association of Academic Physiatrists the Joel A. DeLisa, MD Award for Excellence in Research and Education in theField of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation.