The newly launched publication, Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences, selected Reuben Escorpizo, a clinical associate professor and Interim Physical Therapy Program Director in the Department of Rehabilitation and Movement Science, to serve on the journal's editorial board. The journal publishes rigorously peer-reviewed research in rehabilitation from biological, clinical, and socio-humanistic perspectives. It aims to strengthen rehabilitation sciences and contribute to better health, functioning, and wellbeing of people that experience disability with limitations in functioning. The editorial board includes researchers from worldwide institutions including the University of Luzern (Switzerland), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong), University of Maryland (USA), and University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy).

Dr. Escorpizo serves as a specialty chief editor alongside Thilo Kroll, Associate Dean for Research, Innovation and Impact at University College Dublin, Ireland, for the journal’s Disability, Rehabilitation, and Inclusion section. The section advances the dissemination of evidence related to decreasing the impact of societal and physical barriers on the lives of people with physical, sensory, cognitive or mental health disabilities. Topics include inter-sectorial and systemic challenges, environmental adaptation for accessibility and rehabilitative interventions to address poverty, housing access and barriers to education and employment.

Escorpizo’s expertise focuses on understanding and examining disability in spinal cord injury, work rehabilitation and arthritis. He is the U.S. lead for the International Spinal Cord Injury Community Survey, a multinational cohort study on community-dwelling individuals with spinal cord injury. He is an associate editor for both BMC Public Health and the International Journal of Disability Management. He co-developed the Work Rehabilitation Questionnaire (WORQ), a questionnaire used in rehabilitation settings and translated into multiple languages.

Escorpizo teaches evidence-based practice, movement system and musculoskeletal content. He practices in an outpatient clinic and sees adult patients with conditions including post-trauma, pre- and post-surgery, soft tissue and joint impairments and work-related impairments and restrictions.