David Putrino

David is physiotherapist with a PhD in Neuroscience. He worked clinically in both private practice and hospital environments in Australia, before moving to the United States to study computational neuroscience at Harvard Medical School and MIT. He went on to accept a post-doctoral fellowship at New York University, designing prostheses for Brain Machine Interface devices. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, and the Director of Telemedicine and Virtual Rehabilitation at Burke Medical Research Institute. In this position, he works to develop low-cost and accessible healthcare solutions for individuals in need of better healthcare accessibility. He is a Principal Investigator for a multi-site, NIH-funded investigation of the role of telemedicine in the rehabilitation of sub-acute stroke survivors. He is the Principal Investigator for the Telehealth Intervention Program for Seniors (TIPS).