Kwadwo Appiah-Kubi, an assistant professor of physical therapy in Clarkson’s Lewis School of Health Sciences, recently received a $50,000 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Award. The program provides researchers who are recently out of college with up to $50,000 to allow them to focus on their research activities while they pay off their school loans. The award is for two years.
Appiah-Kubi has been an assistant professor and researcher in the physical therapy department at Clarkson since 2020. He received his Ph.D. in neuromotor science from Temple University, his master of science degree in neuromusculoskeletal physical therapy from Cardiff University and his bachelor of science degree in physical therapy from University of Ghana. His research interests are in the effects of concurrent vestibular activation and postural training on sensory reweighting of postural control processing in individuals with vestibular-related disorders, and in the validation of a virtual reality-based device for vestibular-postural rehabilitation.
He has co-published in Gait & Posture, Disability and Rehabilitation, CommonHealth Journal, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Fatigue: Biomedicine, Health & Behavior and International Journal of Sports Medicine, among many other publications and presentations. He is a reviewer for Brain Sciences, Scientific Reports Journal, PLOS One, Journal of Physiological Anthropology and a former secretary of Ghana Journal of Physiotherapy.
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