Trevor Dyson-Hudson, MD, FASIA, is director of the Center for Spinal Cord Injury Research and co-director of the Center's Derfner-Lieberman Laboratory for Regenerative Rehabilitation Research at Kessler Foundation. Dr. Dyson-Hudson is also co-director of the Northern New Jersey Spinal Cord Injury System at the Foundation, part of the National Spinal Cord Injury Model System of care funded by the National Institute on Disability Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research. He is also a research professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark.

In 1992, during his third year of medical school, Dr. Dyson-Hudson sustained a spinal cord injury (C6, complete tetraplegia) while playing rugby. After a year of rehabilitation, he returned to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and graduated in 1995. He completed his medical internship there, followed by a research fellowship in Rehabilitation Research and Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at New Jersey Medical School. This fellowship was supported by a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral supplement for researchers with disabilities.

Dr. Dyson-Hudson has held committee appointments in the American Spinal Injury Association and the American Paraplegia Society/Academy of Spinal Cord Injury Professionals and has served on the APS Board of Directors. In 2019, he was honored as a Fellow of the American Spinal Injury Association in recognition of his distinguished accomplishments in the fields of spinal cord injury research, clinical practice, education, and advocacy, and for his longstanding service to ASIA. In 2025, he was awarded the James J. Peters Distinguished Service Award by the Academy of Spinal Cord Injury Professionals in recognition of his leadership and distinguished career in spinal cord injury health.