Schuylkill Rehabilitation Center

• Aquatic Therapy
• Golf Program
• Hand Therapy
• Lymphedema Management
• Occupational Therapy
• Physical Therapy
• Physician Services
  • Luis R. Visot, M.D., M.P.H.
  • Thomas Brooks Wheeler, M.D.
• Prosthetics & Orthotics
• Psychology Services
• Public Education Lectures
• Speech Therapy
• Sports Medicine
• Support Groups
• Workinetics

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Luis R. Visot, M.D., M.P.H.

Medical Director Schuylkill Rehabilitation Center

Employment     Years Title Employer 1989 – Present Medical Director Schuylkill Rehabilitation Center 300 Schuylkill Medical Plaza Pottsville, PA 17901 1989 – Present Staff Physiatrist Pottsville Hospital & Warne Clinic 420 South Jackson Street Pottsville, PA 17901 1988 – 1989 1986 – 1988 Physiatrist Medical Director Great Lakes Rehabilitation Hospital Erie, PA 1982 – 1986 1980 - 1982 Chairman Interim Chairman Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, School of Medicine University of Missouri, Columbia 1980 – 1986 Medical Director Howard A. Rusk Rehabilitation Center, University of Missouri, Hospital & Clinics 1979 – 1984 Consultant – DME Division of Family Services, Medical Services (Medicaid), Missouri 1984- 1986 Clinical Associate Professor University of Missouri, School of Medicine, Columbia 1978 – 1984 Assistant Professor University of Missouri, School of Medicine, Columbia 1955- 1978 Physician Puerto Rico

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Education
Years	Institution	Degree
1945	Ponce High School	Diploma
1945- 1948	College of Agriculture & Mechanical Arts Mayaguez, Puerto Rico	Premedical
1948 – 1950	Marquette University, School of Medicine Milwaukee, WI
1951 – 1954	Universidad Nacional Autonoma De Mexico Mexico, D.F.	M.D.
1957- 1958	University of Puerto Rico School of Public Health	M.P.H.
1967- 1969	Resident, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Baylor College of Medicine Affiliated Hospitals Houston, Texas

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Honors & Awards

• 1983 State of Missouri Commendation as Chairman of the Hospital Utilization Review Committee (Medicaid)
• 1984 Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities, Certificate of Recognition for Program Contribution

Membership in Professional Societies

• Academia Medica del Sur (Past Secretary), Honorary Member
• American Academy of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (Fellow)
• American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine
• American Association of Academic Physiatrists
• International Rehabilitation Medicine Association
• American Academy of Electrodiagnostic Medicine
• Pennsylvania Medical Association
• Schuylkill County Medical Society
• American Medical Association
• CARF (Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities) Surveyor from 1983 - Present

Licensures

• E .C. F .M. G.
• Puerto Rico Board of Medical Examiners
• Missouri State Board of the Healing Arts
• Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Board Certification

• American Board of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, 1974

Publications

Frank, RG, Lising, AA, Visot, LR, Wonderlich, S, Kashani, J, Umlauf, R, Ashkanai, G, Use of the dexamathasone suppression test to discriminate affective disorders after spinal cord injury. American Journal of Psychiatry.