Edelle Field-Fote

Edelle (Edee) Field-Fote holds the positions of director at the Shepherd Center Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Research Program & Hulse Laboratory; professor at Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine; and professor of the practice at Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Biological Sciences. With a clinical background as a physical therapist, PhD training in a preclinical model of SCI, and postdoctoral training in neurophysiology, Dr. Field-Fote’s 25+ years of SCI research has spanned the breadth from basic/preclinical to clinical/translational research related to SCI. At the Shepherd Center, she leads a research team dedicated to improving motor function in persons with SCI through the development of clinically accessible neuromodulation and neurorehabilitation approaches informed by the latest neuroscience research and guided by outcomes that have meaning for persons with SCI. Dr. Field-Fote has conducted randomized clinical trials with continuous funding from the NIH since 1997, with other trials in her lab funded by the Department of Defense; the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research; and numerous foundations. Dr. Field-Fote currently serves as chair of the Spinal Cord Injury Model Systems Project Directors consortium, as lead PI of the NIH R25-funded program Training in Grantsmanship in Rehabilitation Research, and as chair of the Paralyzed Veterans of America Clinical Practice Guideline Development Panel for the guidelines Outcomes After Spinal Cord Injury. Dr. Field-Fote is a past chair of the NIH National Advisory Board on Medical Rehabilitation Research, past president of the Foundation for Physical Therapy Research, and the 54th McMillan Lecture Award honoree of the American Physical Therapy Association.