Physical Therapy Chair Terry Ellis Promoted to Full Professor

Physical Therapy Department Chair Terry Ellis is one of 24 Charles River Campus faculty promoted to full professor this spring. Ellis specializes in neurorehabilitation, investigating the impact of exercise and rehabilitation on the progression of disability in those with Parkinson disease. She is the director of the BU Center for Neurorehabilitation and a Catherine Worthingham Fellow of the American Physical Therapy Association. In 2022, she received the American Parkinson Disease Association’s Shawn Thornton Service Award. Her research is supported by several NIH and NSF grants, and she has published more than 90 journal articles, as well as established guidelines for her field. She is on the editorial board of the Journal of Neurologic Physical Therapy and is a member of the American Physical Therapy Association and the Movement Disorders Society.