Students will have exposure and opportunities to collaborate with many disciplines in rehabilitation and medicine including occupational therapy, physical therapy, rehabilitation science and technology, counseling, sports medicine and nutrition, prosthetics and orthotics, physical medicine and rehabilitation, orthopaedic surgery and psychiatry.
There are also opportunities for international collaborations.
Students will be able to experience a wide variety of research activity across many patient populations within the PhD program.
These types of rehabilitation research include:
clinical observational and randomized trials
clinical outcomes research
health service research
biomechanical analyses of human movement in health and diseased states
assistive technologies
rehabilitation technical product development
health and wellness
human performance optimization
psychological aspects of rehabilitation
counseling, and more!
Many of our mentors and departments have affiliations and collaborations with a major integrated health care system and the Veterans Administration (VA).