Asare Christian, MD, MPH

Dr. Christian is a Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) physician with interest in quality and improvement science driving disability policy. He is the founder and medical director of Aether Medicine, as well as a Faculty Clinical Associate at Perelman School of Medicine. Previously, he was Physiatrist and Outpatient Medical Director at Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network in Allentown, PA, and a consultant to Well Sense Health Plan, where he created a framework and recommendations to guide program design and implementation of managed long term services and support for persons with disability. His research interests are in the areas of implementation of innovative quality and efficient models of health systems designs to vulnerable populations, specifically persons with disability.

He was a 2012 NIH/NMA Academic Fellow.  He also received the American College of Medical Quality National Quality Scholar Award and was named as an Armstrong Institute Resident Scholar in 2012. Dr. Christian’s goal is to contribute solutions to health disparities here in the US and aboard.

In his role as Ghana Representative to the International Rehabilitation Forum, has submitted a proposal to Ghana Ministry of Health to start a Medical rehabilitation clinical and academic program in the country. He wants to create high performance sustainable Medical Rehabilitation programs in places where they are non-existent through creation of context, and cultural specific rehabilitation residencies in low resource countries, and impact health policies and practices that improve access to quality and safe healthcare for economically disadvantaged groups and persons with disability.  Dr. Christian received his PM&R training from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2013, and medical degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin, in 2009.