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Assistant Professor
Georgia State University
Dr. Veronica Rowe obtained a master’s degree in occupational therapy from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri in 1996 and a PhD in occupational therapy from Texas Woman’s University (TWU) in 2016. In her experience as an occupational therapist, she has worked in various areas of adult and geriatric care including acute care, inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation, long term care, burns, hands, and psychiatric care, all areas with an emphasis in neurological disorders. She also has a master’s degree in research from St. Louis University which has assisted her in many research endeavors. Prior to her work in academia, she spent her career in St. Louis, Missouri at St. Anthony’s Medical Center; Baltimore, Maryland at Johns Hopkins Bayview; and in Atlanta, Georgia at Emory University. She served as a project coordinator for numerous research studies at Emory University involving rehabilitation therapies for the neurologically compromised upper extremity, including constraint induced movement therapy, mental imagery, and use of robotic devices. She also collaborated on several research studies involving task specific training and neurorehabilitation assessment measures at the University of Southern California. Currently, she is working on the TRANSPORT2 national clinical trial where she trains, coordinates, and adjudicates the raters of outcome measures involving the hemiparetic upper extremity. She is the author of numerous peer-reviewed articles, and has presented nationally, internationally, and virtually for a wide variety of audiences. She is also a Certified Brain Injury Specialist Trainer. Her dissertation and research area of interest is neurorehabilitation after stroke or head injury, specifically, contemporary approaches of neurorehabilitation, such as task oriented training, as well as outcome measures related to the neurologically involved population. Dr. Rowe is currently working at Georgia State University in the Occupational Therapy department as a research faculty member. She is also serving as the ACRM Stroke ISIG chair.