Display Name Deborah Gaebler-Spira, MD

About Me

Dr. Deborah Gaebler-Spira is a Professor of Pediatrics ad Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. She has worked with families and children with cerebral palsy over the last 30 years. She has actively collaborated with pediatric neurology, pediatric orthopedics and pediatric neurosurgery to provide integrated care that maximizes the child's potential for function. In addition she has collaborated with the Sensory Motor performance lab to include children in the study of spasticity and robotics. She has been active in the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy as president and now as chairman of the publication committee and member of the Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology editorial board. In the past she served as the AAPMR liaison to the American Academy of Pediatrics section on Children with Disability. Locally she has been on the Pathways Awareness Foundation board.