Walter R. Frontera MD, PhD

Walter R. Frontera, MD, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine. Rehabilitation, and Sports Medicine at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR). He completed his medical studies and a residency in PM&R at the UPR and a doctoral degree in exercise physiology at Boston University. He was the Inaugural Chair of PM&R at the UPR, Harvard Medical School/Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital (Boston, MA), and Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN). From 2006-2011 he served as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the UPR.