Lumy Sawaki-Adams

Lumy Sawaki-Adams currently serves as Program Director in the Division of Clinical Research at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, a position held since September 2022, following a role as Program Officer in the Division for Research Capacity Building at the National Institute of General Medicine Sciences. Experience includes serving as Endowed Research Chair, Founding Program Director, and Associate Professor at the University of Kentucky, where responsibilities encompassed research oversight, student mentorship, and team management. Previous roles include Director of Research and Rehabilitation Technology at HealthSouth Cardinal Hill Rehabilitation Hospital and Director of Neurorehabilitation Fellowship at Wake Forest University, with a strong focus on securing funding and managing clinical trials. Lumy Sawaki-Adams holds an M.D. from Unifesp - Universidade Federal de São Paulo, a Ph.D. from Kobe University, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Clinical Neurophysiology at the National Institutes of Health.