Susan Garstang, MD

Professor - Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at UT Southwestern Medical

Dr. Susan Garstang is currently with the Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center where she serves as the residency program director as well as the Medical Director of the Spinal Cord Injury Clinic and Rehabilitation Services for Parkland Health and Hospital Systems.

She is a specialist in spinal cord injury, and spasticity related to neurological disorders, and has given many educational presentations to allied health professionals and other physicians pertaining to these areas. In addition, she teaches UT Southwestern Resident Physicians and Medical Students, for which she has received multiple teaching awards.  She is on the Professional Advisory Board (and is Medical Director) for Rehab Without Walls®, and is on the Speaker's Bureau for Allergan.

Her current research interests include topics in electrodiagnostics, the clinical management of spinal cord injury, and graduate medical education research.

After graduating from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, she completed her Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Residency at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.  She then completed a Spinal Cord Injury Medicine fellowship at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey/New Jersey Medical School.