Dr. Ashraf S. Gorgey is currently the Director of Spinal Cord Injury Research at Richmond VA Medical Center and Professor at Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Virginia Commonwealth University. He has bachelor and master degrees in Physical Therapy from Cairo University in 1994 and 2000, respectively. He acquired his PhD in Exercise Physiology in 2005 with special emphasis on electrical stimulation, muscle activation, and fatigue from the University of Georgia. In 2007, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan with special focus on studying the medical consequences, body composition and metabolic changes after spinal cord injury (SCI). In 2010 and 2018, he was awarded fellowship status by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM). Dr. Gorgey is primarily interested in applications of electrical stimulation, exoskeleton training, and neuromodulation in rehabilitation after SCI. He is also interested in understanding the cellular and molecular adaptations to unloading and hypertrophy.