Dr. Gad Alon is an emeritus associate professor at the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA. He was a core faculty until retiring in 2012. The core of his research endeavor has been to develop, test, and help bring to the market new treatment options to treat slow-to-heal wounds, manage acute inflammation, strengthen weak-sarcopenic skeletal muscles, and assist in the recovery following damage to the central nervous system (CNS) using both functional electrical stimulation (FES) and neuromodulation in the form of non-invasive electrical stimulation of the brain (ESB). In recent years, he began focusing on the design, development, and testing of wearable wireless self-administered FES and EBS systems with the goal of making FES and EBS a standard-of-care option in the discipline of rehabilitation medicine worldwide. Prior to retirement, his major teaching included electrotherapy, management of limb amputation, management of pathological movements, and therapeutic technologies. He has been awarded Faculty of the Year six times. He is invited frequently to share his interests and knowledge with clinicians and scientists throughout the USA and around the world.
