Human Performance Series: Session #3 - Dr. David Putrino, Sports Rehabilitation

Dear SWAG Network,

Thanks to our supporter and SWAG advocate, Dr. David Putrino, PhD, we bring to you a Five-Part Series on Human Performance. Our sessions will occur consecutively Saturdays (May 15, 22, 29, & June 5, 12) at 1:00 PM ET (virtual Zoom format).

The third session will begin on May 29, 2021, featuring Sports Rehabilitation Director, Dr. David Putrino, PhD.

Dr. David Putrino is a physical therapist with a PhD in Neuroscience. He worked as a clinician in Australia before moving to the United States to study computational neuroscience at Harvard Medical School, MIT, and NYU. He has served as a faculty member at Weill-Cornell Medicine and Burke Medical Research Institute. He is currently the Director of Rehabilitation Innovation for the Mount Sinai Health System and an Associate Professor of Rehabilitation and Human Performance at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt Sinai.

Dr. Putrino works to develop innovative technology solutions for individuals in need of better healthcare accessibility. He works with the Red Bull High Performance, the Brooklyn Nets, and the US Olympic team to use evidence-based technologies to improve athletic performance. He is also the "Chief Mad Scientist" of Not Impossible Labs, a group that crowd-sources accessible technological solutions for high-impact humanitarian problems.

His research has been featured on the ABC, Sports Illustrated, the Wall Street Journal, the BBC, Time Magazine, TEDx, Wired, and the New York Times to name just a few. He is the author of Hacking Health: How to make money and save lives in the HealthTech world, available from Amazon and Springer-Nature. In 2019, he was named "Global Australian of the Year" for his contributions to healthcare.