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Chief Clinical Officer
US Physiatry
Craig DiTommaso, M.D. is the Chief Clinical Officer for US Physiatry. Dr. DiTommaso performs rehabilitation management and consultations for patients with neurological diagnoses including traumatic brain injury, stroke, cerebral palsy, and/or spinal cord injury. Procedural interventions include baclofen pump management, chemodenervation, neurolysis, joint aspiration, and dry needling. He has a passion for rehabilitation of individuals with a disorder of consciousness. When not at work, he enjoys scuba-diving with his wife and riding bicycles with his two children.
His medical career started at Tulane University. He completed his residency at the Baylor College of Medicine. He then completed a Brain Injury Medicine fellowship at University of Washington. He remained at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle as a neuro-trauma consultant until returning to Houston.
In Houston, Dr. DiTommaso ascended to the medical director of inpatient rehabilitation for Baylor College of Medicine and served as an assistant professor. During his tenure with BCM, he was the medical director of Baylor St. Luke’s Rehabilitation Services, Baylor St. Luke’s Rehabilitation Center, and a primary attending on the TIRR Disorder of Consciousness program. Dr. DiTommaso was the Director of Inpatient Rehabilitation Services for Baylor College of Medicine and also taught Brain Injury Medicine fellows, PM&R resident physicians, medical students, and physician assistant students.
Currently, Dr. DiTommaso is growing his rehabilitation practice in north Houston and developing early career physicians within US Physiatry. His areas of focus include practice growth, building continuity of care, and billing and coding. He serves as an adjunct assistant professor of Neurology at UTMB and Sam Houston State. His research interest include prognosis after traumatic brain injury, robotics, and spasticity treatment. He is an editor for both the PM&R journal and the CNS Rehabilitation section of the Knowledge NOW project. He is the 2025 Chair for the AAPM&R Inpatient Rehabilitation Member Community.
