Faculty and Staff

Faculty

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Michael Buck, PT, PhD, ATC, Cert MDT, CSCS

Founding Director and Associate Professor, Physical Therapy Program

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences
HSB 626

Research Interests

  • Use of technology in teaching
  • Stress, anxiety and success in physical therapy education
  • Team based learning in physical therapy education
  • Curriculum development and assessment in education
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Woei-Nan Bair, PT, PhD

Assistant Professor, Physical Therapy

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences
HSB 635

Research Interests

  • Evidence-based fall exercise interventions for older adults using reactive balance training
  • Geriatric physical therapy
  • Fall intervention
  • Gait and balance dysfunction in older adults
  • Mobility issues in older adults
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Matthew L. Bowman, PT, DPT

Clinical Assistant Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences
HSB 619

Research Interests

  • The effects of exercise for people with cystic fibrosis
  • Rehabilitation for people who have had COVID-19 and have long COVID
  • Balance for people with various pulmonary diseases
  • Translation of evidence into physical therapist practice
  • Assisting with establishment of clinical practice guidelines for people with COPD
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Vipul Lugade, PhD

Associate Professor and Director of the MARL

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences
HSB 620/WG SB 202/203

Research Interests

  • Gait balance control in older adults at risk of falling
  • Development of remote activity monitoring tools
  • Return-to-play decision making in adolescents with mild traumatic brain injury
  • Dual-task motor and cognitive evaluations
  • Personalized single- and dual-task intervention in adolescents with concussion and older adults with balance impairment
  • Longitudinal change in health outcomes following joint arthroplasty
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Gauri MacDonald, PT, DPT, PhD

Clinical Assistant Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences
HSB 614

Research Interests

  • Social determinants of health and physical therapy outcomes
  • Physical therapy鈥檚 role in public health
  • Psychosocial aspects of physical therapy
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Geena Brady Mocniak, PT, DPT

Clinical Assistant Professor and Assistant Director of Clinical Education, Physical Therapy

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences
HSB 622

Research Interests

  • Preparedness of new graduates

  • Best practices in clinical education

  • Interprofessional practice

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Kristen Mooney, PT, DPT

Director of Clinical Education and Assistant Professor, Division of Physical Therapy

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences
HSB 623

Research Interests

  • Best practices in clinical education
  • First full-time clinical education experiences
  • Clinical outcomes in the treatment of patients with neurologic conditions
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Matthew Murphy, PT, DPT

Clinical Assistant Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences
HSB 618

Research Interests

  • ACL rehabilitation
  • Motor learning and corrective exercise
  • Biomechanics related to sport
  • Nutritional impacts on musculoskeletal health
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Sue O鈥橞rien, PT, PhD, CEEAA

Associate Professor, Physical Therapy

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences
HSB 621

Research Interests

  • Balance and falls in older adults
  • Clinical reasoning development and measurement
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Gurpreet Singh, PhD, PT

Assistant Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences
HSB 611

Research Interests

  • Gait and balance disorders as a result of neurodegenerative disorders, with a focus on developing novel exercise strategies to reduce falls in this population
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Staff