Department: Rehabilitation Sciences
Combined Doctor of Physical Therapy/PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences
The Physical Therapy & Athletic Training department offers a Doctor of Physical Therapy/PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences (DPT/PhD) Program for students with exceptional academic promise and strong motivation for a career in research. The program combines clinical training toward the DPT degree with PhD research training in the Rehabilitation Sciences. This combined degree program gives students […]
Daily Free Press: “Doctoral Candidate Brings Mental Health Aid to Hometown”
(3/21/18, The Daily Free Press) “For a large portion of her life, Chitra Khare, a graduate student in the Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, has dedicated herself to addressing this issue outside of America, namely by employing individuals with severe mental illness in her hometown of Pune, India. ‘Employment is an answer to […]
LaDora V. Thompson, PhD, BS, PT
Scholarly, Research, and/or Practice Interests Age-related changes in muscle health at the cellular level Understanding the underlying cellular mechanisms that explain muscle weakness and dysfunction in order to develop appropriate therapies that will prevent, retard, and reverse these age-related declines Selected Publications Baumann, C.W., Kwak, D., and Thompson, Sex-specific components of frailty in C57BL/6 mice. Aging, (Albany […]
Deepak Kumar, PT, PhD
Courses Taught
Louis N. Awad, PT, DPT, PhD
Courses Taught
David Felson, MD, MPH
Elliot Lee Saltzman, PhD
Scholarly, Research, and/or Practice Interests Nonlinear dynamics of sensorimotor coordination and control in limb, torso, and speech articulators; Relative timing patterns among functional units of action; Coupling between action and perception, with emphasis on graph-dynamic and parameter-dynamic processes. Courses Taught PT550: Scientific Basis of Human Movement; Instructor This is a lecture course designed to present […]
Cara L. Lewis, PT, PhD
Scholarly, Research, and/or Practice Interests Musculoskeletal causes of hip pain and biomechanical analysis of human movement. Courses Taught HP 151 Introduction to the Health and Rehabilitation Professions PT 520 Functional Anatomy HP 737 Human Movement Analysis PT 490 Independent Study RS 910 Directed Readings Scholarship – Recent Presentations (out of 55 total) “Gait and motion: […]
Terry Ellis, PhD, PT, FAPTA
Download CV to view grant funding, honors/awards, and consulting activities. Scholarly, Research, and/or Practice Interests Neurorehabilitation Parkinson disease / Clinical Practice Guidelines / Physical Therapy Models of Care Characterizing and improving walking behavior in persons with Parkinson disease Mobile health technologies / Digital Therapeutics Augmenting walking capacity using soft robotic systems in persons with Parkinson […]