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Physical therapy prof to deliver Inaugural Lecture
4:51 p.m., Sept. 14, 2006--Stuart A. Binder-MacLeod, Edward L. Ratledge Professor of Physical Therapy, will deliver his Inaugural Lecture as a named professor at 4 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 19, in 100 Wolf Hall. His topic is “The Best Way to Stimulate Skeletal Muscle: From Cats, to Rats, to Students, to Paralyzed Humans.” Binder-MacLeod's research focuses on the effect of selected electrical stimulation on muscle performance with both healthy individuals and patients in the Muscle Performance Lab. He has received several grants, as principal investigator, from the National Institutes of Health for research on human skeletal muscle and other projects. Joining the UD faculty in 1987, Binder-MacLeod has chaired the Department of Physical Therapy since 1998 and serves on the faculty of UD's interdisciplinary Biomechanics and Movement Science Program. Binder-MacLeod has received many awards from the American Physical Therapy Association, including its Golden Pen Award, its Marion Williams Award for research in physical therapy and its Eugene Michels New Investigator Award in 1993, and he was elected the Catherine Worthingham Fellow in 2003. He also received the Medical College of Virginia's Outstanding Alumnus award. A graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo, Binder-MacLeod received his master's degree from Emory University and his doctorate in physiology from the Medical College of Virginia. Photo by Kathy F. Atkinson |
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