As the NHL season is set to begin, Michael Terry, MD, associate professor in orthopaedic surgery and team physician for the Chicago Blackhawks, prepares for the unexpected, on the ice and off.
Lisa VanWagner, a fellow in gastroenterology and hepatology, will be working alongside mentors Anton Skaro, MD, PhD, assistant professor of organ transplantation, Michael Abecassis, MD, MBA, director of the Comprehensive Transplant Center, and Donald Lloyd-Jones, MD, ScM, director of the Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, to study orthotopic liver transplantation and cardiovascular disease.
The only degree of its kind in the country, the joint Doctor of Physical Therapy and PhD in Engineering program marries two disciplines for one clear benefit: improved rehabilitation therapies and technologies for patients with movement disorders.