ABOUT

Sue Ann Sisto, PT, MA, Ph.D., FACRM has been a physical therapist working in rehabilitation for over 40 years. She has spent the last 20 years conducting rehabilitation research. She is currently a tenured Professor and Chair of the Department of Rehabilitation Science at the University at Buffalo (UB), School of Public Health and Health Professions. Dr. Sisto is also the Director of the Biomechanics Lab at UB and previously of the Rehabilitation Research and Movement Performance Lab at Stony Brook University and in the Human Performance and Movement Analysis Lab at Kessler Foundation. Dr. Sisto also has an affiliation appointment in the School of Engineering, specifically biomedical engineering. After receiving her Bachelor’s degree in Physical Therapy, she pursued a Master’s degree at NYU to examine electrical stimulation for wound healing. Later she completed her Ph.D. at NYU examining the impact of exercise on activity in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome with the NIH CFS Center, followed by a post-doctoral scholarship in exercise and CFS. She has served on several advisory boards for grants for RERCs, NIDRR (now NIDILRR) model systems, NIH multi-center trials, PCORI, NIH DSMB, NYSCIRB and NSF. Dr. Sisto has published in areas of autonomic dysfunction, neuromodulation and neuroplasticity, technology, primarily in SCI both nationally and internationally. She is a grant reviewer for NIH, DOD and Shriners Hospital for Children. Dr. Sisto has been funded by NIDILRR, NSF, Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation, NYS Spinal Cord Injury, and NIH. Most notably, she has served as mentors for MDs, MD/Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellows, Masters students and Undergraduate students in a broad area of disciplines in rehabilitation research as well as with engineering, social scientists, disability studies scientists, behavioral and community health professionals. Dr. Sisto was also the elected as the first Physical Therapist to be President of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine.