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Trisha M. Kesar, PT, PhD

Associate Professor
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Dr. Trisha Kesar is an Associate Professor at the Department of Rehab Medicine, Division
of Physical Therapy at Emory University. She received her PhD in Biomechanics and
Movement Science from University of Delaware in 2009. After postdoctoral training at
University of Delaware and a visiting post-doc at University of Maryland Baltimore, she
joined the Division of Physical Therapy at Emory University in 2012. She is the Director of
the Motion Analysis Laboratory at Emory Rehabilitation Hospital, and training faculty
within the Neuroscience graduate program. Dr. Kesar has published over 55
peer-reviewed manuscripts on stroke gait biomechanics, gait training, functional electrical
stimulation, biofeedback, and neuroplasticity processes underlying gait retraining. She is
also involved in teaching (Neuroscience course instructor) within the Doctor of Physical
Therapy program (DPT) at Emory, one of the top-ranked PT programs in the nation. She is
the principal investigator of ongoing research grants funded by the NIH. Dr. Kesar has
been a research mentor for several undergraduate and graduate students during her
tenure at Emory, and is involved with mentoring within the Neuroscience PhD program at
Emory as well as the Applied Physiology DPT-PhD dual degree program at Georgia
institute of Technology.

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