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Shanti M. Pinto, MD

Assistant Professor
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Dr. Pinto is currently an Assistant Professor in the department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and O’Donnell Clinical Neuroscience Scholar at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, TX, USA. She completed her medical education at the University of Pittsburgh Medical School as part of the Physician Scientist Training Program. She completed residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) in 2016, where she received the Excellence in Brain Injury Medicine award, followed by fellowship in Brain Injury Medicine at UPMC in 2017. She has presented at numerous national conferences and received the Best Paper Award for current fellows at the Association of Academic Physiatrists Annual Meeting as a fellow in 2017 and as a faculty physician in 2020. In October 2020, she was awarded the inaugural Atrium Health Excellence in Research Award for Early Career Scientists. She serves as co-project director for the North Texas Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems site, and she is funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) to study the link between autonomic nervous system dysfunction, cerebrovascular autoregulation impairments, and outcomes after traumatic brain injury.

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