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Albert Recio, MD, PT

Associate Professor
Kennedy Krieger Institute

Dr. Albert Recio is a physician in the paralysis restoration program at the International Center for Spinal Cord Injury (ICSCI), and medical director for the aquatics medicine program at Kennedy Krieger Institute. He is also an associate professor of PM&R at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Dr. Recio's research interests center on activity-based restoration therapies (ABRT). In an effort to provide patients with long-term SCI greater independence. Dr. Recio's field of interest also includes electrical stimulation in the treatment of recalcitrant pressure wounds and the use of functional electrical stimulation (FES) to activate nerves innervating extremities affected by paralysis resulting from spinal cord injury (SCI). Dr. Recio actively follows over 200 patients per year and reads routine DXA scans.

Dr. Recio served as a clinical scientific peer reviewer for the New York State Spinal Cord Injury Research Board, the Journal of International Medicine, the Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development, the American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and the Journal of Behavioral and Brain Science. He won the Best Paper Presentation at the third world congress of the International Society of Physical Rehabilitation Medicine (ISPRM) in Sao Paolo, Brazil for his paper titled Post-Stroke Depression: Medication and Rehabilitation. Dr. Albert Recio has been the recipient of the Josefina Laperal Tamayo Award for Excellence, Community Service Award, the Perpetual Help Medical Center Loyalty Award, the Dean’s Gold Medal Award and Academic Scholarship Award. His paper titled Fertilized Duck Egg (Balut) and Cholesterol, won Best Paper Presentation at the Asian Medical Students' Conference in Hong Kong.

Dr. Recio has piloted the Virtual Sailing Simulator Research Program allowing individuals with disabilities to participate in real time “ride on” virtual sailing that has the potential to bridge the gap between dry land and on-the-water adaptive sailing.

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