Nominating Committee nominees
2024 Nominees
AACPDM 2025 Nominating Committee
Nominating Committee: Jensine Clark, MD
Jensine Clark received her medical degree at Meharry Medical College in Nashville TN and completed Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Residency at the University of Cincinnati. She then completed Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine Fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital.
Dr. Clark subspecializes in pediatric rehabilitation medicine and spasticity management. She enjoys helping patients and families tackle transition issues that include regaining independence and social integration within their communities. Specializing in spasticity management also allows her to help patients maintain and increase function in their daily lives. Her training in both physical medicine and rehabilitation and pediatric rehabilitation allows her the opportunity to see patients across their lifespan.
Dr. Clark has been an active member and presenter at AACPDM since starting her fellowship in 2019. She is also apart of the Lifespan specialty interest group. In addition to her work with AACPDM, Dr. Clark is active with the American Academy of PM&R and has presented at several national conventions. She also serves as the PM&R Section Chair of the National Medical Association.
Outside of her clinical schedule, her current research interests include assessing and developing best practices for patients who are transitioning from the pediatric to adult healthcare setting, as well as interest in improving health equity and outcomes for patients with disabilities.
Nominating Committee: Vedant Kulkarni, MD
Vedant Kulkarni, M.D., serves as vice-chair and assistant chief of orthopedics, medical director of the motion analysis center and director of orthopedic education at Shriners Children’s Northern California. He is co-director of the Shriners-UC Davis Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery Fellowship. Dr. Kulkarni’s clinical practice includes hip, lower extremity and foot deformities in children, with a special emphasis on neuro-orthopedic conditions such as cerebral palsy and spina bifida. He is the winner of the Fred P. Sage Award and Mac Keith Press Award from the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine (AACPDM) for the development and validation of the free HipScreen mobile app, which empowers providers and families with tools needed to enact a hip surveillance program for children with cerebral palsy. Dr. Kulkarni has served as scientific co-chair of the 2024 AACPDM annual meeting.
Dr. Kulkarni’s research interests include the role of artificial intelligence to improve patient care decisions, interpreting the cellular mechanisms of contractures in cerebral palsy and the use of technology to create ease of access to motion analysis. He is an active member of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America and a fellow of the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and American Orthopaedic Association.
Nominating Committee: Aloysia Schwabe, MD
Aloysia Schwabe, MD is a Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine. She is the Division Chief for Pediatric PM&R at Texas Children’s Hospital. After completing residency training in PM&R at The Ohio State University and then a fellowship in Pediatric PM&R at BCM/Texas Children’s, she has been faculty at BCM/TCH for over twenty years. She is active in cerebral palsy and spasticity multi-disciplinary clinics and is serving as Co-Director of the TCH Motion Analysis Lab. Her professional goals include improving comprehensive care of children with cerebral palsy including connecting families to community-based programs and expanding research participation by pediatric rehabilitation faculty within the Pediatric Rehabilitation Division at TCH.
Dr. Schwabe has been an active member and presenter at AACPDM for over 15 years. She has served on the Lifespan committee and is excited to be a member of the new Technology SIG. She is also a Commission for Motion Lab Accreditation board member and Easter Seals of Greater Houston board member.