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Alumni Spotlight

Alum Spotlight: MJ Lee

MJ Lee, PhD, BSOT, Research Assistant Professor, Division of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch

Alum Spotlight: Corey Simon

Corey Simon, DPT, PhD, FAAOMPT, completed the Rehabilitation Science program in December 2014. He is currently an assistant professor at Duke School of Medicine in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Doctor of Physical Therapy Division. Recently he was part of the team which published one of the first studies…

Alum Spotlight – Pablo Saldana, PhD, LCSW, CRC

Tell us a little about your experience in the RSD program. I entered the RSD program in the fall 2008 with a combination of tremendous excitement and some apprehension about commencing doctoral studies at UF. The apprehension faded as my mentor, Dr. Jamie Pomeranz, helped me to acclimate to…

Alum Spotlight – Emily Plowman, PhD, CCC-SLP

1. Tell us a little about your experience in the RSD program. I entered the RSD program in the Fall of 2001.   I was attracted to the interdisciplinary nature of the RSD program that reflected how rehabilitation specialists work in the ‘real world’, the breath and depth of…

Alum Spotlight – Mark Bishop, PT, PhD

Tell us a little about your experience in the RSD program. I entered the RSD program in Fall 1999 after completing a Masters in health Science. We took the majority of classes in the evening. My dissertation was focused on motor control and the biomechanics of walking especially in…

Alum Spotlight – Chetan Phadke, Ph.D.

Following graduation, Chetan completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Queen’s University in Canada before joining the West Park Hospital in Toronto as a Scientist. West Park hired Chetan with an explicit mandate to develop the research program in 2010. The clinician’s at West Park were full of research ideas, but needed dedicated…

Alum Spotlight – Kristin Vamvas Day, PhD, MPT, NCS

In May 2010, I graduated from the RSD program, where I studied walking recovery after spinal cord injury and neuromuscular plasticity with Dr. Andrea Behrman. Currently, I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute in Philadelphia. My primary mentor is John Whyte, MD, PhD, a leader…