Dr. David R. Gater, Jr., MD, PhD, MS
Doctor | Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
1120 NW 14th St FL 9 Miami FL, 33136About
Dr. David Gater is a physiatrist practicing in MIAMI, FL. Dr. Gater is a medical doctor specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation, and within the specialty, Spinal Cord Injury Medicine. As a physiatrist, Dr. Gater focuses on a patients ability to function, and can treat multiple conditions that affect the brain, nerves, spine, bones, muscles, joints, ligaments and tendons. Dr. Gater can diagnose and treat pain that is a result of injury, disease or a disabling condition. Physiatrists often lead a team of physical therapists, occupational therapists and physicians in a patients treatment or prevention plan.
Education and Training
U Arizona College of Medicine MD 1992
Board Certification
Spinal Cord Injury Medicine (Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation)
Physical Medicine and RehabilitationAmerican Board of Physical Medicine and RehabilitationABPMR- Spinal Cord Injury Medicine
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Rapid assessment of rehabilitation options for functional disability.
- Electrical stimulation: a societal perspective.
- The initial effects of low-volume strength training on balance in untrained older men and women.
- Autonomic dysreflexia: a plastic surgery primer.
- Relationship between regional bone density measurements and the time since injury in adults with spinal cord injuries.
- Reconsidering the motor recovery plateau in stroke rehabilitation.
- Physician perceptions of upper extremity reconstruction for the person with tetraplegia.
- Upper extremity reconstruction in the tetraplegic population, a national epidemiologic study.
- A comparison of hydrostatic weighing and air displacement plethysmography in adults with spinal cord injury.
- Diabetes mellitus in individuals with spinal cord injury or disorder.
- Perceptions of people with tetraplegia regarding surgery to improve
- Obesity after spinal cord injury.
- Opinions on the treatment of people with tetraplegia: contrasting perceptions of physiatrists and hand surgeons.
- Oral baclofen administration in persons with chronic spinal cord injury does not prevent the protective effects of spasticity on body composition and glucose homeostasis.
- Locomotor and resistance training restore walking in an elderly person with a chronic incomplete spinal cord injury.
Areas of expertise and specialization
Faculty Titles & Positions
- Professor, Chair & SCIM Fellowship Director U Miami Miller School of Medicine (PM&R) 2019 - Present
Professional Memberships
- Academy of Spinal Cord Injury Professionals
- American Paraplegia Society
- American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Association of Academic Physiatrists
- American Spinal Injury Association
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