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Professor of Psychology and Physical Therapy
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Gitendra Uswatte is Professor of Psychology and Physical Therapy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and Co-Director of the CI Therapy Research Group there. He has developed objective methods for remotely monitoring the effect of rehabilitation treatments on how much patients actually use their impaired extremities at home. In collaboration with Edward Taub, PhD., he has developed an expanded form of CI therapy for individuals with plegic hands, a method for delivering CI therapy on a telerehabilitation basis, and an adaptation of CI therapy for cognitive impairment. Uswatte’s contributions have been recognized by the Division of Rehabilitation Psychology of the American Psychological Association with the Mitchell Rosenthal Early Career Research Award in 2008, selection to Fellow status in 2011, election to President in 2013, and Roger Barker Distinguished Research Contribution Award in 2020.