Dromerick is known for his clinical and laboratory research on rehabilitation methods for stroke patients, including a new technique called constraint-induced movement therapy.
Education:
B.A. in Biology at University of Virginia
M.D. at University of Maryland
Additional Background: Dromerick's research focuses on physical and cognitive rehabilitation after brain injury. He is the co-prinicipal investigator of the Cognitive Rehabilitation Research Group (CRRG), an interdisciplinary group dedicated to identifying, characterizing and tracking patients who participate in cognitive studies, including research into deficits and preserved function in learning and memory after brain injury. Dromerick also is investigating a relatively new rehabilitation technique called constraint-induced movement therapy, which appears to help patients recover function in limbs affected by stroke by encouraging the to use affected limbs in therapy. He is involved in a multi-center study of amphetamines for one-sided paralysis after stroke and a prospective study of urinary tract infection after stroke. He also is a member of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, and is studying the effect of stroke on dementia.
