Richard M. Herman

Richard Herman was born in Brooklyn, NY. He received the B.S. degree in physical chemistry from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, a Certificate in physical therapy from the School of Education, New York University, and the bachelor's of medicine, obstetrics and surgery degree from Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. He completed a medical internship with Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, and a residency in rehabilitation medicine with the Bronx Municipal Hospital, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY. He completed a postdoctoral VRA Fellowship on motor control and clinical activities in rehabilitation medicine. from 1965 to 1969, he was an Assistant Professor in rehabilitation medicine with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. in 1969, he became a Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, and Director of the Krusen Center for Research and Engineering with the Moss Rehabilitation Hospital, Philadelphia. in 1971, he became a Professor and Chairman of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Temple University and Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Drexel University, Philadelphia. in 1982, he became Director of the Rehabilitation Medicine Unit, Catholic Medical Center, Manchester, NH, and Research Professor of surgery (neurosurgery) at the Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH. in 1987, he joined the Samaritan Rehabilitation Institute as its Medical Director and assumed the directorship of the Clinical Neurobiology and Bioengineering Research Laboratories. He has been a Research Professor in the Departments of Bioengineering and Kinesiology at Arizona State University, Tempe, and in the Department of Pharmacology at the Health Sciences Center, University of Arizona, Tuscon. His principle research interests are directed at developing tools to better understand movement control and to test contemporary as well as novel therapeutic interventions for CNS-related dysfunctions. Presently, he is developing a physiological and functional models with emphasis on the interaction between neural and metabolic (bioenergetics) systems. Further, he has established laboratories dedicated to neural control of the microcirculation with emphasis on the role of small primary sensory neurons in certain populations of obese and pre- and postdiabetic subjects. Dr. Herman is a member of the Society of Neuroscience, American Physiology Society, American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Association of Academic Physiatrists.