Skip to main content
ACRM 100th Annual Conference Main banner
InBody BWA
Final Program


Back

Edelle Field-Fote, PT, PhD, FASIA, FAPTA

Director of Spinal Cord Injury Research & Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine
Shepherd Center & Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Edelle (Edee) Field-Fote, PT, PhD, FAPTA, FASIA
Director, Shepherd Center Spinal Cord Injury Research Program & Hulse Laboratory
Professor, Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine
In her role the Director of SCI Research at Shepherd Center, Dr. Field-Fote leads a team dedicated to improving motor function in persons with SCI through the development of clinically accessible neuromodulation and neurorehabilitation approaches informed by the latest neuroscience research and guided by outcomes that have meaning for persons with SCI. With a clinical background as a physical therapist, PhD training in a pre-clinical model of SCI, and post-doctoral training in motor control physiology, her 25+ years of SCI research has spanned the breadth of basic and clinical/translational research related to SCI. Dr. Field-Fote has conducted randomized clinical trials with continuous funding from the NIH since 1997; other clinical trials in her lab have been funded by the Department of Defense, the National Institute on Independent Living Disability and Rehabilitation Research, and numerous foundations. She currently serves as Chair of the Spinal Cord Injury Model Systems Project Directors consortium, as lead-PI of the NIH R25-funded program Training in Grantsmanship in Rehabilitation Research, and as Chair of the Paralyzed Veterans of America Clinical Practice Guideline Development Panel for the guidelines Outcomes After Spinal Cord Injury. Dr. Field-Fote is a past Chair of the NIH Advisory Board on Medical Rehabilitation Research, and past President of the Foundation for Physical Therapy Research.

Presentation(s):