John R. Bach

Dr. John R. Bach received his medical degree from the College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in 1976. He completed residency training in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at New York University in 1980. He was the Medical Director of the Howard Rusk Ventilator Unit at Goldwater Memorial Hospital from 1980 to 1981 and then developed a noninvasive respiratory management program at the University of Poitiers, France from 1981 to 1983. He has been on the faculty of the Rutgers University-New Jersey Medical School where he is a Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Vice Chairman of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Professor of Neurology in the Department of Neurology, Director of Research and Associate Medical Director of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at University Hospital, Newark, N.J., Director of the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School Muscular Dystrophy Association Clinic, and Medical Director of the Center for Ventilator Management Alternatives, University Hospital, Newark, N.J. He has over 500 peer reviewed scientific articles and book chapters and 13 medical textbooks on neuromuscular and pulmonary medicine in English, Spanish, and Japanese and has lectured on these topics in over 60 countries. He has received many awards for excellence in research writing, and others include the UMDNJ University Excellence Award for Patient Care, and the Newark Beth Israel Health Care Foundation Humanism in Medicine.