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Meghan E. Kazanski, PhD, BS

Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology, Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Dr. Meghan Kazanski is a post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Medicine at Emory University. Her research supports several pilot and clinical trials evaluating the efficacy of dance and rhythm-based exercise treatments on functional mobility, cognition, and disease progression in older adults, and older adults with prodromal Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s Disease. Dr. Kazanski received her Ph.D. in Kinesiology with a concentration in Biomechanics from the Pennsylvania State University in 2022, where she studied the implications of typical aging on balance control in challenging predictable and unpredictable walking contexts. Through this earlier work, Dr. Kazanski integrated principles of biomechanics and motor control to identify the strategies that older adults use to achieve stable, adaptive walking, and coordinate their step-to-step movements to successfully overcome considerable balance challenges imposed by complex, dynamic walking environments. Dr. Kazanski is now applying her expertise in the study of clinical gait to develop and implement dance and rhythm-based assessment and treatment paradigms that target gait flexibility and functional mobility in older adult populations both with and without conditions including Mild Cognitive Impairment and Parkinson’s Disease. Dr. Kazanski is particularly interested in optimizing the design and administration of engaging motor-cognitive therapies that are made highly efficacious in their consideration of individual-specific motor-cognitive limitations that manifest in adaptive gait and other functional tasks.

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