Exercise and Cardiometabolic Health
Faculty Investigator
W. Todd Cade, PT, PhD
The overall goal of our laboratory is to study innovative and precision rehabilitation strategies to enhance cardiometabolic health.
Neurological Rehabilitation
Faculty Investigator
Jody Feld, PT, DPT, PhD
Student
Katherine “Kat” Morgan.
Dr. Feld’s research seeks to inform assessments and interventions for clinicians working with individuals post-stroke and in the geriatric population. Furthermore, she aims to provide clinically relevant prediction tools for neurologic and geriatric populations. Focus areas include physical resiliency, motor-cognitive dual-task paradigms, balance, gait, physical activity monitoring, neuroimaging, and neuromodulation.
Movement Matters for Adults with Multiple Comorbid Conditions and Medical Complexity
Faculty Investigator
Amy M. Pastva, PT, MA, PhD
Dr. Pastva has two decades of experience as a physical therapist and an academician and has participated as a clinician-scientist at the Principle Investigator (PI) or Co-Investigator (Co-I) levels on foundation and federally-funded projects where she developed care transition and rehabilitative strategies aimed at positively influencing physiological mechanisms of health and improving patient-centered outcomes of physical function and quality of life for adults with chronic and/or medically complex conditions such as heart failure, respiratory failure, cancer, and stroke.
Faculty Investigators
Kyle Covington, PT, DPT, PhD
Katie Myers, PT, DPT; Jamie Greco, PT, DPT, EdD
Marcus Roll, PT, DPT; Chad Cook, PT, MBA, PhD, FAPTA
Jody Feld, PT, DPT, PhD; Kara Lardinois, PT, DPT
The Duke DPT Education Innovation Lab is a community of faculty scholars with a shared vision of advancing educational research in the pursuit of excellence in physical therapy education. We aim to be change agents in education, with research projects that investigate and answer critical questions that elevate the standards in crucial components of DPT education. Our work aims to translate educational research outcomes into delivering excellent educational experiences, preparing future clinicians who will truly transform society.
Clinical Informatics and Data Science
Faculty Investigator
Maggie Horn, DPT, MSPH, PhD
Dr. Horn’s research agenda focuses on understanding the multifactorial experience in patients with musculoskeletal pain by leveraging secondary data from claims, administrative, clinical outcomes, and registry data sources. She is particularly interested in developing sustainable and scalable processes to collect patient-reported outcome measures and clinical data through the EHR to undertake research and quality improvement projects and develop data analytics platforms.
Faculty Investigator
Laura Pietrosimone PT, DPT, PhD
Dr. Pietrosimone’s research focuses on lower extremity biomechanics and physical activity in orthopaedic and sports medicine populations. Specifically, her work seeks to advance translational science by developing innovative rehabilitation strategies that address the lasting consequences of acute and chronic lower extremity injury to promote joint health and optimize patient quality of life.