Gayle R Spill

Gayle R Spill, MD serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, with clinical practice at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Shirley Ryan AbilityLab.

Education and Training:

• MD: UMDNJ/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (1990)
• Residency: Northwestern University, McGaw Medical Center (Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago) (1994)
• Board Certification: Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Her research program critically examines ethical dimensions of rehabilitation medicine, specializing in futility assessments, prognosis communication in neurotrauma, cancer rehabilitation metrics, and sports medicine jurisprudence. Current investigations address Medicare reimbursement criteria for cancer rehabilitation and ethical frameworks for end-of-life care in rehabilitation settings.

Publication analysis reveals consistent interdisciplinary focus where 100% of recent works integrate clinical rehabilitation with medical ethics, particularly examining decision-making frameworks in spinal cord injury and metastatic cancer rehabilitation. Her scholarship bridges clinical practice with policy implications across rehabilitation subspecialties.

Dr. Spill maintains active clinical-research affiliations with Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, a premier rehabilitation research center, where she contributes to translational initiatives in neurorehabilitation and cancer recovery protocols.