Faculty Areas of Interest

Aside from the three established research labs in the School of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, faculty and students are engaged in a variety of other areas of research and scholarship. Accessing each faculty member’s page within the website will provide you with more specific evidence of the direction of their work, but general areas of interest include:

Fehrer, Steve - Practice patterns in the acute care and long-term care environments; management of balance and vestibular disorders; management of the medically complex geriatric client; applied exercise physiology of the geriatric client

Humphrey, Reed - exercise and chronic heart failure; exercise testing and oxygen kinetics; exercise and community-based interventions

Ikeda, Beth - orthopedic measurement; musculoskeletal changes of aging; spine dysfunction

Laskin, James - applied exercise physiology; sports and recreation for people with physical disabilities; physical fitness for disabled populations; health promotion and secondary condition risk reduction

Leonard, Chuck - research on neonatal and adult-onset brain damage, spasticity and motor control with work that concentrates on the neural mechanisms of disability.

Levison, Dave - promotion and enhancement of clinical education; understanding and resolving conflict in clinical education; physical therapist as the provider of choice; improving the business of health care

Mize-Humphrey, Kim - women's health issues in physical therapy; examination and rehabilitation of running injuries; clinical education in physical therapy; evidence-based practice

Mizner, Ryan - orthopedic and sports practice, knee impairment, use of electrical stimulation in physical therapy, and work-related disorders of the upper extremity and spine

Scholtes, Sara - better understanding of movement impairments in people with musculoskeletal pain problems, particularly of the lower extremity