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Vice President of Research
Madonna Rehabilitation Hospitals
Judith M. Burnfield, PT, PhD, is a nationally recognized physical rehabilitation clinician, researcher and scholar. Dr. Burnfield is the Vice President of Research, Director of the Institute for Rehabilitation Science and Engineering, and Clifton Chair in Physical Therapy and Movement Science at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospitals. She completed her BS in Physical Therapy at the State University of New York at Buffalo, her PhD in Biokinesiology at the University of Southern California, and her postdoctoral studies at the Los Amigos Research and Education Institute in California. She draws on over three decades of physical rehabilitation clinical and research experience to direct Madonna Rehabilitation Hospitals’ Model System of Rehabilitation Care for Patients Post-COVID-19 (Federal Award Identification Numbers: SLFRP1965 and SLFRP1615). Dr. Burnfield holds faculty appointments in the clinical sciences and engineering at multiple universities. She co-authored the book, Gait Analysis, Normal and Pathological Function, and has over 70 peer-reviewed manuscript publications and numerous book chapters in areas relevant to physical rehabilitation. She has served as PI and Co-PI for grants funded by NIDILRR, NIH, and NSF. She currently serves as an advisor for a multi-center study funded by the National Association of Long Term Hospitals (NALTH) examining rehabilitation outcomes following Post-COVID-19 care in long-term acute care hospitals and as the Madonna site PI for an NIH-funded study focused on the neurologic consequences of COVID-19.