11/15/2021
Dr. Rowe is an accomplished OT practitioner, researcher, and Assistant Professor at Georgia State University. As a practitioner, she has worked in a number of settings including acute care, rehabilitation, outpatient, and home health, focusing on clients with neurological deficits such as brain injury. Additionally, she has worked in stroke research and practiced at the Shepherd Center in Atlanta, Georgia, in the Acquired Brain Injury unit. Dr. Rowe has done extensive research in neurorehabilitation interventions after stroke, specifically regarding motor recovery of the hemiparetic upper extremity. She has received numerous grants and awards for her research, and her work includes 25 publications, including her dissertation “Task Oriented Training and Evaluation at Home (TOTE Home)”.
Dr. Rowe is also the recipient of the Cleon C. Arrington Research Initiation Grant (RIG) Program Award for Georgia State University. The RIG award recognizes new scholarly, research initiatives that will result in external grants to continue that line of research. This campus-wide competition is held each fiscal year, and Dr. Rowe receives this award for her research in action observation (AO), an emerging intervention in stroke rehabilitation that is used to improve function in a weakened arm and hand.
Additionally, Dr. Rowe will be collaborating on an NIH R21 grant, “Addressing socioeconomic disparities in post-stroke disability through the development of an accessible, new tool” with Claire Honeycutt, a bioengineering professor at Arizona State University and Pam Rogers Bosch, Associate Professor of Physical Therapy at Northern Arizona University to research Startle Adjuvant Rehabilitation Therapy (START) as a co-PI. START is a tele-enabled, low-cost treatment to improve upper-extremity therapy outcomes in individuals with stroke – in particular individuals with severe-to-moderate stroke.