Feature | Maley Lecturer Calls for More Clinician-Scientists in Physical Therapy

Stacey Dusing, PT, PhD, FAPTA, said that having more research-trained clinicians, as well as more faculty who practice clinically, will help close the knowledge translation gap.

"As a clinician, researcher, and consumer of physical therapist services, I'm extremely concerned about the gap between knowledge development and implementation in health care," Stacey Dusing, PT, PhD, FAPTA, said in opening the 28th John H.P. Maley Lecture.

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