Andrea Behrman, PT, PhD, FAPTA

Andrea Behrman, PT, PhD, FAPTA Associate Professor University of Florida Department of Physical Therapy Box 100154, UFHSC  Gainesville, FL  32610 -0154  Phone: (352) 273-6117 Fax:  (352) 273-6109 Email:ABehrman@phhp.ufl.edu

Andrea L. Behrman, PhD, PT is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy at the University of Florida and a Research Health Scientist at the Malcom Randall VA Medical Center in Gainesville, FL. Dr. Behrman's specialty as a physical therapist and researcher is in adult neurorehabilitation. Her overall research objective is to develop and test physical rehabilitation strategies based on neuroplasticity and biological principles of motor control to improve outcomes, particularly walking recovery, in persons with movement dysfunction secondary to neurologic disease or injury. She has collaborated extensively with basic scientists to advance translational research and findings into clinical practice. As a co-Director with the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation NeuroRecovery Network, Dr. Behrman oversees seven rehabilitation sites translating evidence- and activity-based therapies, currently locomotor training, into daily clinical practice for recovery of walking after incomplete spinal cord injury. Dr. Behrman is currently the co-PI of the Locomotor Experience Applied Post-stroke trial (NIH), and as PI, recently completed, the Kids STEP Study (Neilsen Foundation) and the VA-funded study comparing “Differential Effects of Robotic- vs. Manual-assisted Locomotor Training” – all aimed at recovery of walking after stroke or spinal cord injury. In 2009, she was elected a Catherine Worthingham Fellow of the American Physical Therapy Association, in 2006 honored by the Neurology Section of the APTA for her research targeting recovery after SCI, and in 2008, recipient of the inaugural Duke University Physical Therapy Program Alumni Award for Clinical Practice. Dr. Behrman enjoys the beauty of lake-dwelling in the “real” Florida complete with osprey, pileated woodpeckers, otters, and an occasional alligator.
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