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Pablo Celnik, MD

CEO
Shirley Ryan Ability Lab

Pablo Celnik, MD, is the Chief Executive Officer of Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, the global leader in physical medicine and rehabilitation for adults and children with the most severe, complex conditions. He is a physiatrist, physician-scientist and internationally recognized leader in rehabilitation and academic medicine. As CEO, he oversees the organization’s vast clinical and research enterprise, including 2,700 employees, more than 30 sites of care, and affiliates and alliances around the world.

Previously, he served as Physiatrist-in-Chief and Chair of the Department of PM&R at Johns Hopkins University, leading the rehabilitation service line. Additionally, he served as Director of the Human Brain Physiology Lab; the Director of the Precision Medicine Center of Excellence in Rehabilitation and Co-director of the Sheikh Khalifa Stroke Institute - all at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. During his storied tenure, he achieved transformational growth across every area he led, expanding Johns Hopkins’ local and global rehabilitation footprint, scientific funding and philanthropic contributions.

Dr. Celnik has published more than 130 manuscripts in highly regarded peer-reviewed journals, has been the recipient of countless prestigious awards, including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, and has been inducted into the National Academy of Medicine.

In service to the rehabilitation and scientific community, Dr. Celnik is the current secretary treasurer for the Association of Academic Physiatrists (AAP) and is in-line to become the president of this organization.

A native of Argentina, he received his medical degree from the University of Buenos Aires, and completed residency training in neurology in Argentina. This was followed by a fellowship in neurological rehabilitation at the University of Maryland and two research fellowships at the NINDS, NIH. In 2000, he entered the PM&R residency at Johns Hopkins, where he remained for another 20 years, as faculty in PM&R, neurology and neuroscience.

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