Featured academics
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Nico Dosenbach
Dosenbach pioneered precision functional brain mapping, co-discovering the somato-cognitive action network that rewrote the textbook motor homunculus. His multi site collaborations set rigorous standards for brain wide association studies, and his 2026 work reframes Parkinson's disease as a network disorder, guiding how clinicians target deep brain stimulation and rehabilitation.
Gammon Earhart
Earhart leads WashU Medicine's physical therapy programme and directs research on movement in Parkinson's disease. Her trials of dance, rhythmic auditory cueing and community exercise translate laboratory movement science into accessible interventions, shaping rehabilitation practice worldwide and demonstrating how digital gait biomarkers can track disease and personalise therapy.
Lisa Tabor Connor
Connor directs WashU Medicine's Program in Occupational Therapy, ranked among the top three in the United States. Holding the Elias Michael named professorship, she studies how people with stroke and Parkinson's disease return to meaningful activity, and her community reintegration research connects rehabilitation science with neurology, caregivers and health systems to improve long term participation.