Dr. Gary Cutter, Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at UAB's School of Public Health served as part of an expert panel convened by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research (NCMRR) for a workshop entitled, The Future of Medical Rehabilitation Clinical Trials, held 29-30 September 2016 at the NCMRR offices in Bethesda, Maryland. The ultimate goal of both the workshop and this summary is to offer guidance on clinical trial design and operations to the medical rehabilitation research community, with the intent of maximizing the impact of future trials. The guidelines have been published in the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.