Timothy Rethorn, PhD
On April 4th and 5th, 2024, Timothy Rethorn PhD, DPT, PT and Gabriel Alain PhD, DPT, PT successfully defended their dissertations.
Timothy Rethorn’s dissertation, Trauma-Informed Care: Opportunities and Challenges for Physical Therapists, addresses the gap in training of physical therapists regarding their responsibility and practice involving their patients’ psychological trauma. Tim’s Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) work involved a multi-pronged educational approach developed for use by physical therapists to give tangible tools to clinicians to implement TIC, as well as facilitate discussion around this topic. This toolkit contributes to advancing the field of musculoskeletal physical therapy by addressing the critical intersection between physical and psychological health.
Gabriel Alain, PhD
Gabriel Alain’s dissertation delves into addressing inefficiencies in delivering and improving care within healthcare systems. To do this, Gabe adapted financial principles inspired by the S&P 500 to synthesize The Agile Healthcare Performance Index (AHPI). This measurement tool seeks to increase the efficiency of healthcare systems in domains including decision making, benchmarking and evaluation, and resource allocation.
Congratulations to Dr. Alain and Dr. Rethorn!