Substance use Training And Research (STAR) Lab
PI: Rikki Patton, PhD
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Research Focus: substance use, workforce development, lifespan, youth, older adults, couple therapy, family therapy, contextual therapy, trauma-informed care
Music, Creativity and Wellness Lab
PI: Joke Bradt, PhD, MT-BC
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Research Focus: music therapy, chronic pain, symptom management, cancer, military
Health, Arts, Learning and Evaluation Lab
PI: Girija Kaimal, EdD, ATR-BC
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Research Focus: visual self expression, stress, art therapy, health outcomes, biomarkers
Mind-Body and Movement Research for the Whole Person Lab
PI: Minjung Shim, PhD, BC-DMT
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Research Focus: medical dance/movement therapy, mind-body health, non-pharmacological management of chronic pain, preventive health care, well-aging, randomized controlled trials, mechanistic studies, theory/model-building, systematic reviews, mixed-methods research
Clinical Exercise Physiology Lab
PI: Michael Bruneau Jr., PhD, FACSM, ACSM EP-C, NASM CPT
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Research Focus: physical activity; exercise; cardiometabolic health; metabolic syndrome, Alzheimer's disease and related dementias; exercise genomics; chronic kidney and end-stage renal disease; hunger and appetite; systematic review; meta-analysis
Paulina Sockolow, DrPH, MS, MBA
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Research Focus: Adolescent behavior, adverse childhood experience, mHealth application, software design, trauma informed care, technology evaluation, clinical information systems, patient care team, aged, homecare
Community Nutrition and Health Promotion
PI: Brandy-Joe Milliron, PhD
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Research Focus: bone metabolism, nutrition, obesity, clinical trials
PACEE Lab
PI: Laura A. Baehr, PT, DPT, PhD
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Research Focus: health equity, chronic physical disabilities, healthy aging, lifespan, physical activity promotion, implementation science, mixed methodology
Multiscale Neuromuscular Biomechanics Laboratory
PI: Benjamin Binder-Markey, PT, DPT, PhD
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Research Focus: skeletal muscle structure and function, computional musculoskeletal modeling, biomechanics, muscle adaptation, stroke, cancer associated cachexia
Sudeshna Chatterjee, PT, PhD
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Research Focus: aging, cognition, sensorimotor integration, motor control, neurorehabilitation of walking, neuroimaging, non-invasive brain stimulation
Lisa Chiarello, PT, PhD, FAPTA
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Research Focus: service delivery, family-centered care, engagement, early intervention, school-based practice, outcomes, participation, parent-child interactions, childhood disability, cerebral palsy
Neuromotor Activity, Participation and Health (NAPH)
PI: Margaret A. Finley, PT, PhD
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Research Focus: secondary conditions in persons with chronic impairments, musculoskeletal pain, manual wheelchair users, spinal cord injury
Functional Aging and Mobility Research Laboratory
PI: Annalisa Na, PhD, PT, DPT
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Research Focus: aging, cognitive decline, osteoarthritis, pain, multimorbidity, physical function,
mobility, biomechanics, movement efficiency, physical activity