Santa Clara Valley Affiliated Faculty

Dr. Crew joined the PM&R department as faculty in 2009. His clinical interests are in Spinal Cord Injury Medicine, Electrodiagnostics, and General Rehabilitation. He provides acute hospital consultations, and also manages patients on the Acute Rehabilitation and Respiratory Rehabilitation Units. Additionally, Dr. Crew performs Electrodiagnostic studies in both the inpatient and outpatient settings. He has helped lead numerous clinical research projects, with a focus on the sequelae of SCI. Dr. Crew has served as a reviewer for several journals and is currently an Associate Editor for the PM&R Journal. Since 2015, he has served as Chair of the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Department.

Department Vice Chair

Chief, Brain Injury Rehabilitation

Dr. Huie joined the PM&R department as faculty in 2012. His interests are in Brain Injury Medicine, Concussion Management, Spasticity Treatment, and General Rehabilitation. He is predominantly involved clinically in providing acute hospital consultations, attending on the Acute Rehabilitation Unit, outpatient PM&R Clinic and performing Ultrasound-guided procedures for Spasticity Treatment. Since 2017, he has served as Chief of Brain Injury Rehabilitation.

Dr. Chaw joined the Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R) department as faculty in 2011, to provide clinical care to the spinal cord injury (SCI) population during inpatient rehabilitation. In addition to attending on the Acute Rehabilitation Unit (ARU), he also works in the Respiratory Rehabilitation Unit (RRU) which is a specialized multidisciplinary unit focused on ventilator management and weaning. Dr. Chaw also works in the outpatient setting to follow patients through the continuum of SCI care after discharge from initial inpatient rehabilitation.

Dr. Huang joined the PM&R department in 2012, after working as a locum tenens physician across the US and overseas. Her interests are in Brain Injury Medicine, Musculoskeletal Injuries, Amputee care, Electrodiagnostics, and General Rehabilitation. She is predominantly involved clinically as an attending on the Acute Rehabilitation Unit, outpatient PM&R clinic and performing electrodiagnostic studies.

Dr. McKenna joined the PM&R department as faculty in 2005. As a Neurocritical Care physician, he specializes in ventilator dependent Spinal Cord and Traumatic Brain Injury; as well as neuromuscular diseases. Dr. McKenna is the co-chairman of the Research Education Subcommittee for the American Spinal Injury Association. He has led first-in-human clinical trials ranging from vaccines for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) to stem cell derived oligodendrocyte progenitor cell-based therapies for Spinal Cord Injury.

Dr. Mian joined the PM&R department in 2018. Her interests include Spinal Cord Injury Medicine and General Rehabilitation. She is mainly focused clinically on the inpatient management of patients on the Acute Rehabilitation and Respiratory Rehabilitation Units. Dr. Mian also performs inpatient consultations for the acute hospital at SCVMC and sees patients in the PM&R outpatient clinic.

Dr. Shem joined the PM&R department in 1998. Her interests are in Spinal Cord Injury Medicine, Electrodiagnostics, General Rehabilitation, and clinical research. She is predominantly involved clinically in seeing patients in the PM&R clinic and performing Electrodiagnostic studies. Her research focuses include community reintegration and quality of life after SCI and electrodiagnostic medicine as it applies to neurological conditions. Dr. Shem has received multiple grants including the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation’s Quality of Life grants, the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation grant to develop telemedicine, and the Department of Defense grant to study tele-psychology.

Dr. Varma joined the PM&R department as faculty in 2017. Prior to moving to California, she was an attending physician at the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of PM&R for three years. Her interests are in Brain Injury Medicine, Electrodiagnostics, Amputee care, and General Rehabilitation. She is predominantly involved clinically in providing acute hospital consultations, attending on the Acute Rehabilitation Unit, outpatient PM&R clinic and performing electrodiagnostic studies. Since 2019, she has served as the Stanford PM&R residency site director.