Meet the SCI Science Perspectives Podcast Team!

		Trevor Dyson-Hudson, MD, FASIA is Director of the Center for Spinal Cord Injury Research and Co-Director of the Northern New Jersey Spinal Cord Injury System—a NIDILRR-funded Spinal Cord Injury Model System of care—at Kessler Foundation (West Orange, NJ). He is also a Research Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (Newark, NJ). Dr. Dyson-Hudson’s research interests include prevention and treatment of common secondary medical complications affecting people with SCI, as well as community reintegration and employment after injury. Dr. Dyson-Hudson has benefited from his own lived experiences with spinal cord injury (C6/C7 tetraplegia complete) since 1992.
		Dr. Fareea Khaliq is the Director of Spinal Cord Injury/Disorders at the John D. Dingell VA Medical Center in Detroit, MI where she manages care for acute and chronic Veterans with spinal cord injuries and disorders and medical complications that arise. Previously, she served as a spinal cord injury physician at the VA Boston Healthcare System as well as Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Tufts University School of Medicine and Clinical Lecturer at Harvard Medical School/Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital. She completed her spinal cord injury fellowship training at the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Along with having a passion for educating her residents and fellows in all topics of spinal cord injury, she is constantly learning about and implementing the latest research in the spinal cord injury field.
		David McMillan, PhD, is Director of Education and Outreach at the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis. Dr. McMillan liaises The Miami Project’s care and cure mission to a diverse audience in a variety of settings. The Miami Project’s efforts span FDA indication-seeking clinical trials across virtually all clinical research settings—surgical, inpatient, outpatient, and beyond. As an Assistant Professor, Dr. McMillan’s dissertation pertained to the role of the autonomic nervous system in the absorption, trafficking, and fates of dietary fat. He still keeps a keen eye on the neurogenic physiology of feeding and obesity, but now collaborates on various laboratory efforts in the neuroscience umbrella. Dr. McMillan also aligns some of his field efforts with regional demands and and affordances—aiming at the disproportionate risks (e.g., hurricanes and heat) and rewards (e.g., scuba and sailing) the Tropical Atlantic poses for people living with disability from paralysis.
		Chris Riegner, MPH is a clinical research coordinator on the spinal cord injury team at the National Capital Spinal Cord Injury Model System based out of MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, DC. He also serves as the production assistant for the SCI Science Perspectives podcast hosted by the American Spinal Injury Association. Mr. Riegner holds a Master’s in Public Health from George Washington University since 2024 and has 4 years experience coordinating in-human trials of multiple drug and device treatments for secondary complications of spinal cord injury, including neurogenic bladder, neurogenic bowel, spasticity, autonomic dysfunction, and urinary tract infections.