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Sara Cuccurullo, MD (she/her/hers)

Professor, Chair and Residency Program Director, Medical Director and VP
JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute

Sara Cuccurullo MD, Professor and Chair, Residency Program Director, Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Medical Director and VP, JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute, Physician-in-Chief Rehabilitation Services HMH

Dr. Cuccurullo graduated from SUNY Downstate in 1987 and completed her residency in PM&R at Rutgers-RWJ/JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute (JRI). She was board certified in 1992.
She joined the staff of JFK JRI in 1991 and served as the Residency Program Director (PD) since 1998. She has taught the PM&R Board Review Course since 1991. Dr. Cuccurullo is Editor-in-Chief and published the fourth edition of The PM&R Board Review Textbook in 2019. She has received the Teacher-of-the-Year Awards multiple times. In addition, she received: the Distinguished Alumni Award, the 2018 AAP Outstanding Service Award, the 2019 AAPM&R Distinguished Member Award and in October 2019 and 2023 was named as a NJ Top Health Care Influencer. She has served as Past President of the National Residency and Fellowship PD Council and is currently Past President of the National Chair Council. She was appointed as a Board member of the AAP in 2014 and presently still serves on the AAP Board. She was appointed AAP Co-Chair of the Women in Academic Physiatry Task Force. She authored over 40 book chapters, 30 peer reviewed articles and over 130 abstracts. She was appointed Chair of Rutgers-RWJ Medical School and the Medical Director/VP for JFK JRI in February 2014. Her clinical research includes the Stroke-HEARTTM Trials and the upcoming Stroke Recovery Program CROSS (Cardiac Rehabilitation of Stroke Survivors) trials. Dr. Cuccurullo is a PI on these projects and has been invited both nationally and internationally to present this published research. In March 2018 She was appointed Chair at HM School of Medicine and Physician-in-Chief of Rehabilitation Care Transformation Services of HM Health Network.



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