Bruce M. Gans, MD

Dr. Bruce Gans, MD is a Senior Health Policy Advisor in the firm’s legislative and healthcare practices. With extensive experience in both the medical and policy sides of health care and rehabilitation, Dr. Gans offers clients a clinical perspective on complex healthcare, rehabilitation and disability policy issues.

Dr. Gans is  board-certified  in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) and Electrodiagnostic Medicine and has devoted his career to advancing patient care and treatment, both as a clinician and as anadvocate. Most recently, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation and as the National Medical Director for Rehabilitation for Kessler’s parent company, Select Medical. He is currently a Professor of PM&R at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and serves as the Chief Policy Officer for the American Medical Rehabilitation Providers Association (AMRPA), a Powers client.

Dr. Gans has served in leadership positions at a number of leading institutions throughout his career, including Tufts University School of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Detroit Medical Center, Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the North Shore - Long Island Jewish Health System.

At Powers, Dr. Gans brings his breadth of experience as a physician, thought leader, advocate, educator, and researcher to his client work. He provides clients with insight on the practical implications of policy on health care operations and consults on issues such as rehabilitation, post-acute care, disability policy, and emerging technologies to assist people with illnesses, injuries, and disabilities.

Dr. Gans has conducted research and published extensively on the topic of rehabilitation medicine, focusing primarily on pediatric trauma rehabilitation, quantitative assessment of motor performance, rehabilitation engineering, rehabilitation health services delivery, and primary care for individuals with disabilities.

Dr. Gans received his M.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia and an MS in Biomedical Electronic Engineering from the Moore School of Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.  He also holds an MS degree from the University of Washington.  He served his medical internship at the Philadelphia General Hospital and residency in PM&R at the University of Washington, Seattle.  Dr. Gans received his BS degree in electrical engineering from Union College, Schenectady, New York.