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Shane McNamee, MD, Shane McNamee M.D. currently serves as chief of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Richmond VAMC and has worked extensively on the development and implementation of the Polytrauma System of Care in the Veterans Health Administration. He is an assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth University Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Department and serves as the sirector of the TBI/Polytrauma Fellowship.

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