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Over 35 years of clinical experience in Brain Injury Rehabilitation in academic clinical settings in Philadelphia, Toronto, Pittsburgh and Richmond, VA. Board Certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. SubSpecialty Board Certification: Brain Injury Medicine (ACGME certified).Now retired from active clinical practice since September, 2020. Actively involved as a science advisor for the Pari Center ( http://paricenter.com )  Ongoing interests:neuromuscular ultrasound,electrodiagnostic medicine, phenomenological analysis and biosemiotics as applied to cognitive, behavioral and affective sequelae of brain injury, medical ethics of brain injury rehabilitation, the holistic understanding of human functionality and optimization of functionality through rehabilitation, Bohmian Quantum Physics.  Additional interests:Semiotics, Narrative Medicine, person-centered healthcare, Salutogenesis in healthcare (cf. Aaron Antonovsky / ‘sense of coherence’), Stress Medicine / Allostatics, Consciousness Science, Posttraumatic Growth and Resilience, Neuroethics, Palliative Rehabilitation, Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, ReBUS (RElaxed Beliefs Under pSychedelics) Theory / Anarchic Brain, Jungian Depth Psychology and writing of Erich Neumann, Philosophy of Medicine (medical phenomenology), Biosemiotics, process-oriented approaches to human cognition, nonlinear dynamical systems modeling, coordination dynamics and the complementary nature in non-equilibrium meta-stable dynamical states (JAS Kelso), consciousness science, theoretical/relational biology of Robert Rosen–fabricated ‘Mechanisms’ vs. living ‘Organisms’ (cf. ’Life Itself’ and ‘Essays on Life Itself’)…‘Problem of the Actualization of Potentia’ via from the level of the whole organism (ie. Goldstein’s ‘self-actualization’) down to the quantum level (‘Relational Realism’ (M Epperson) and the ‘Relativistic/Possibilist Transactional Interpretation’ of quantum physics (R E Kastner)

‘Divided Brain Theory’ and hemispheric asymmetry of Iain McGilchrist ( http://channelmcgilchrist.com/ ), Biosemiotics of time consciousness and the foundational temporal continuum on which reality unfolds ‘manifest’ physical Actuality vs. ‘hidden’ relational Reality (D Hoffman)

Materialism vs. Realism vs. Idealism

Semiotic Panpsychism/Philosophical systems of: …AN Whitehead (process-relational thought and ‘philosophy of organism’), …E Lévinas (‘ethics as first philosophy’), …CS Peirce (‘pragmaticism’, triadic semiotics, semiotic realism, process metaphysics, ‘Synechism’), …H Jonas (‘phenomenology of life’), …existential philosophies of Bergson, Canguilhem, Merleau-Ponty, and Kurt Goldstein, …mystical writings including Kabbalah (Zohar).…Kabbalistic / Semiotic Panpsychism.