Ashraf S. Gorgey is currently the Director of Spinal Cord Injury Research at Hunter Holmes McGuire at VA Medical Center and a Professor at Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PMR), Virginia Commonwealth University. He has a bachelor and master degrees in physical therapy. He acquired his PhD in exercise physiology in 2005 from the University of Georgia. He completed a PMR a fellowship training at the University of Michigan. In 2010 and 2018, he was awarded the fellowship status from the America College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM), respectively. His research work was funded to study the effects of electrical stimulation, exercise and testosterone replacement therapy on parameters of physical activity in persons with spinal cord injury including body composition, metabolic profile and mitochondrial health. Most recently, he was funded to study the applications of exoskeleton with and without neuromodulation techniques similar to epidural stimulation and trans-spinal stimulation on motor recovery. Dr. Gorgey’s research has received national recognition by different organizations including the Department of Veteran Affairs and Department of Defense. Dr. Gorgey has published close to 120 peer-reviewed articles and presented nationally as well as internationally in different scientific meetings.