Senior Research Clinician
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Rehabilitation Medicine
Katharine E. Alter MD is a Pediatric and Adult Physiatrist at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda Maryland where she serves as a Senior Research Clinician and as Medical Director of the Neuro-Imaging and Biomechanics Section within Rehabilitation Medicine. Prior to joining NIH full time in 2014 she was the Medical Director of Rehabilitation Programs at Mount Washington Pediatric Hospital (1998-2014) and a staff physiatrist at National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington DC (1989-1998). She is board certified in Pediatrics, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Pediatric Rehabilitation and Electrodiagnostic and Neuromuscular Medicine.
Dr. Alter is a co-investigator on numerous research protocols at NIH and is actively involved in the education and training of students, medical students, residents and fellows from NIH and MedStar Georgetown University. Her clinical interests include assessment and treatment of neurological and musculoskeletal disorders and botulinum toxin therapy. Her current research projects include diagnostic neuromuscular ultrasound, shear wave elastography, motion capture MRI, botulinum toxin therapy for movement disorders, non-invasive functional brain imaging and robotic exoskeletons for the treatment of crouch gait.
She is active in numerous professional associations and has presented nationally and Internationally on topics within her field and has published numerous peer reviewed articles and book chapters. Dr. Alter was previously on the Editorial Board of Developmental Medicine Child Neurology and is the President Elect of The International Neurotoxins Association.
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Thursday, February 27, 2025
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM MST
