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
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
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 Behavior and Pain Lab
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