Emily Evans, PT, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy at the Boston University College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Sargent College. Dr. Evans’ research focuses on informing and improving post-acute rehabilitative care for individuals with acquired neurologic diagnoses by learning from clinically collected data and implementing evidence-based care. She has experience using Trauma Registry and Medicare administrative data to examine post-acute care outcomes of older adults with TBI. 

Dr. Evans will work with the inpatient rehabilitation department at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital under the mentorship of Dr. Mary Slavin and Dr. Lewis Kazis. The overall goal of the project is to collaborate with practicing clinicians to leverage data housed in the facility’s Electronic Health Record to learn from and inform current practice through data extraction and analysis. The project will focus on consistently collected functional outcome measures and a recently implemented high-intensity gait training program