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Counseling and Family Therapy

Exploring Community Empowerment Lab (EXCEL)

PI: Jessica Chou, PhD, LPC

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Attachment, Caregiving and Emotions (ACE) Lab

PI: Stephanie Krauthamer Ewing, PhD

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Rikki Patton, PhDSubstance 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

Creative Arts Therapies

Headshot of Joke BradtMusic, 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

Food and Hospitality Management

Jonathan Deutsch

Drexel Food Lab

PI: Jonathan Deutsch, PhD, CHE, CRC

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Health Sciences

Michael BruneauClinical 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

Nursing

Rose Ann DiMaria-Ghalili, PhD, RN, CNSC, FASPEN, FAAN

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Loretta JemmottLoretta Sweet Jemmott, PhD, MSN, RN, FAAN

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Safiyyah M. Okoye, PhDSaffiyah Okoye, PhD, MSN, RN, FNP-C

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Justine S. Sefcik, PhD, RNJustine Sefcik, PhD, RN

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Nutrition Sciences

Brandy-Joe Milliron, PhD

Community Nutrition and Health Promotion

PI: Brandy-Joe Milliron, PhD

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Research Focus: bone metabolism, nutrition, obesity, clinical trials

Deeptha Sukumar, PhD

Deeptha Sukumar, PhD

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Research Focus: bone metabolism, nutrition, obesity, clinical trials

Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences

Laura A. Baehr, PT, DPT, PhD

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

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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

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Sudeshna Chatterjee, PT, PhD

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Research Focus: aging, cognition, sensorimotor integration, motor control, neurorehabilitation of walking, neuroimaging, non-invasive brain stimulation

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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

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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

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Gait Laboratory

PI: Clare E. Milner, PhD, FACSM

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Research Focus: gait, biomechanics, running, walking, lower limb, knee, ankle, foot

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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