September 23,
2003
Deborah Julie Franklin, MD, PhD,
Appointed Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine
at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
(Philadelphia, PA) - Deborah
Julie Franklin, PhD, MD, has been appointed Assistant
Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine at the University
of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Franklin is
presently partnered in a clinical practice with Keith
Robinson, MD, Chief of Rehabilitation Medicine at Pennsylvania
Hospital.
Recipient of a Harrison Fund Fellowship in cancer rehabilitation
in 2001 from Pennsylvania Hospital, Franklin has continued
to focus her clinical work in this area. An accomplished
Ashtanga yoga instructor, she is working on incorporating
various movement therapies into physiatric recommendations.
Franklin attended Harvard University where she earned
her BA in 1986, and she earned both her PhD and MD from
the University of Pennsylvania. She is certified by
the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
and a member of the American Academy of Physical Medicine
and Rehabilitation, the Cancer Rehabilitation SIG and
part of the Cancer Executive Committee at the Joan Karnell
Cancer Center.
She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in
the history of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
School of Arts and Sciences and is currently teaching
bioethics through the History and Sociology of Science
department.
Her research has been published in Rehabilitation
Medicine: Principles and Practice, Archives of Physical
Medicine and Rehabilitation, New England Journal of
Medicine and the Annals of the American Academy
of Political and Social Sciences. She has also lectured
on a variety of topics over the last three years including
cancer rehabilitation and the history of the neurosciences.
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