Samannaaz Khoja is a research assistant professor in the Department of Physical Therapy. She received her PT degree from Seth G.S. Medical College in Mumbai, India, before coming to the University of Pittsburgh to pursue a Master's level and Doctoral Degree in Health and Rehabilitation Science.
Her research interests include examining the role of physical activity on cardiometabolic health and physical function in adults with chronic conditions and understanding utilization patterns for PT/rehabilitation services in healthcare settings.
Her current research projects focus on leveraging large datasets such as electronic medical records to understand the barriers to delivery of evidence-based treatments, and informed decisions to improve the access to PT/rehabilitative services. She has also been involved in teaching various courses related to research methods and evidence-based practice at the undergraduate and graduate level. She currently teaches in the Evidence-Based Practice Series for the DPT program, and Clinical Investigations for PT Post-Professional MS Program.
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Representative Publications
Research Interests
Health Services Research, Dissemination and Implementation Science
Barriers to PT/Rehab utilization in healthcare settings
Promoting Physical Activity in Individuals with Rheumatoid Arthritis and Degenerative Arthritis
Ongoing projects:
Targeted Interventions to Prevent Chronic Low Back Pain in High Risk Patients: A Multi-Center Pragmatic
RCT (TARGET STUDY)
Physician Referral Patterns to Physical Therapy (PT) for Managing Knee OA: An Analysis using UPMC Patient Electronic Health Records
Associations between physical activity and plasma biomarkers in individuals with lumbar spinal stenosis