Dr. Dimitry Sayenko earned his MD from the Russian State Medical University in 1996. From 1996 to 2006, he was a researcher at the Institute for Biomedical Problems, Russia’s leading center for biomedical research in human spaceflight. He received a PhD in Aerospace Medicine in 2005 for his work on the effects of microgravity on postural control in cosmonauts and astronauts. Dr. Sayenko completed postdoctoral training at the National Rehabilitation Center in Japan (2006-2008) and the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute in Canada (2008-2012). He subsequently held faculty appointments at the University of Louisville/Frazier Rehab Institute (2012-2014), studying mechanisms of neuromodulation induced by epidural spinal stimulation, and at UCLA (2014-2018), where he investigated spinal stimulation approaches for sensorimotor recovery after spinal cord injury. He is currently at the Houston Methodist Research Institute, where his research focuses on the neurophysiological mechanisms, parameter-dependent effects, and clinical translation of both invasive and non-invasive spinal neuromodulation to restore upper- and lower-limb motor and autonomic function after neurological injury, including spinal cord injury.