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Amy M. Pastva, PT, MA, PhD (she/her/hers)

Professor
Duke University School of Medicine
Durham, North Carolina, United States

Amy M. Pastva, PT, MA, PhD, is Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery (Physical Therapy Division), Medicine, Population Health Sciences, and Cell Biology in the Duke University School of Medicine. She is Director of Research in the Physical Therapy Division, a Senior Fellow in the Duke Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, and a Duke Pepper Older American Independence Center Scholar. Her research is dedicated to developing and optimizing physical rehabilitative strategies to positively influence physiological mechanisms of health and improve clinical and patient-centered outcomes, especially in medically-complex populations with comorbid conditions and serious illness. With expertise in physical rehabilitation, exercise physiology, and cellular and molecular physiology, she understands bodily processes at the functional, organ, and cellular and molecular level; this skill set is vital for translating relationships among biophysiological data and functional performance outcomes. She maintains of robust dossier of international-, NIH-, and PCORI-funded projects. Most pertinent to this presentation, she served on COMPASS, the PCORI-funded large pragmatic trial of comprehensive post-acute stroke services, to refine the care plan to identify social and functional health determinants, create training modules and engagement strategies to guide therapy providers in evidenced-based physical rehabilitation implementation, and define data variables and the implementation framework and strategies used in the trial. She joined with Drs. Freberger and Jones on this NIH-funded trial to explore disparities in post-acute rehabilitation therapy use for patients in the COMPASS trial.

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