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Katherine L. Hsieh, PhD (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor, Physical Therapy
Georgia State University
Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Katherine Hsieh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy at Georgia State University. She received her doctorate in Kinesiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and completed her postdoctoral training in Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Her research passion lies in understanding the control of human movement as it relates to falls in aging, disability, and chronic disease populations. She utilizes innovative technologies (i.e., wearable sensors, mobile health, virtual reality) to measure fall risk factors and to develop interventions to prevent falls across clinical populations. Her past work focused on leveraging mobile health to measure fall risk tailored for the Multiple Sclerosis (MS) population. She developed a mobile health application, Steady-MS, with an interdisciplinary team that measured physiological and psychosocial risk factors for falls. Her work ultimately led to a valid, usable, and feasible fall risk app that people with MS can independently use to measure their fall risk. Her more resent research has focused on using wearable sensors to measure gait and physical functioning in older adults living with obesity in response to caloric restriction interventions. Her background and training position her to lead future fall prevention trials to improve functional independence in those aging with disability.

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