- Additional Titles:Assistant Professor, BU School of Medicine
Director, Movement & Applied Imaging Lab - Education:B.Sc. (Hon), Delhi University, India
Master of Physiotherapy, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India
PhD, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Postdoc, University of California, San Francisco, CA - Website or Lab: Movement & Applied Imaging Lab
- Email:kumard@bu.edu
- Phone:617-358-3037
Dr. Kumar is a clinician-scientist and he directs the Movement & Applied Imaging Lab. The goal of Dr. Kumar’s research is to develop mechanism-based and technology-enabled movement interventions for sustained benefits in pain and physical function for middle- and older-age adults with knee osteoarthritis (OA).
Dr. Kumar received his entry-level and graduate training in physical therapy in India. He completed his doctorate in biomechanics from the University of Delaware followed by postdoctoral work in advanced imaging of osteoarthritis at the Musculoskeletal Quantitative Imaging Research group at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Kumar was an Assistant Professor in the Division of Physical Therapy at the Medical University of South Carolina before joining Boston University.
He also holds an appointment in the Section of Rheumatology at BU School of Medicine.
Publications
Lists of published works: Google Scholar
Lists of published works: ORCID
- Departments
- Health Sciences, Physical Therapy, Physical Therapy, and Rehabilitation Sciences
- Positions
- Tenure-track/Tenured