Bruce Gans, MD, has left Wayne State University to join North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System as senior vice president for continuing care and chairman of physical medicine and rehabilitation.

He came to Detroit in 1989 to serve as professor and chair of physical medicine and rehabilitation at WSU, senior vice president and physiatrist-in-chief of The Detroit Medical Center (DMC), and president of the Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan. As part of the DMC’s administrative reorganization in 1996, he was named senior vice president for rehabilitation, post acute and senior services.

"Bruce has played a critical role in development and delivery of rehabilitation services, long-term care, home care and senior services across the system. In addition, he has helped establish WSU and the DMC as a regional comprehensive trauma center," said Robert Sokol, MD, dean of the WSU School of Medicine. "He has been a superb academic chair who was deeply involved in clinical training and research in his department."

Prior to joining WSU, Dr. Gans was chairman of the department of rehabilitation medicine at the New England Medical Center and professor and chair of rehabilitation medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. He holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Union College, Schenectady, NY; an MD from the University of Pennsylvania; and MS in biomedical electronic engineering from the University of Pennsylvania; and another in rehabilitation sciences from the University of Washington, Seattle.