Schmidt Fellowship
What is the Schmidt Fellowship?
The Schmidt Movement Disorders Fellowship was established to develop physical therapist experts in movement disorders through focused patient care, mentoring, didactic study, community service and collaboration with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The fellowship provides a concentrated experience to clinicians who have an interest in subspecializing in movement disorders including Parkinson’s Disease, dystonia, Huntington’s Disease and others. The program is designed to prepare clinicians to treat clients with movement disorders at the expert level, collaborate with movement disorder specialists, promote and develop health and wellness programs, design and implement intensive programs to target neuroplasticity and participate in research.
How to apply?
email Pam Ressler PT, DPT, NCS at pam@re-activept.com
Application due date: 04/01/2016
Application decision date: 06/01/2016
Meet Richard Schmidt, PhD
The Schmidt Fellowship is named for Richard Schmidt PhD, a beloved mentor of all of us, who continues to teach us weekly through his participation at re+active. He brings a unique perspective as both a person with corticobasal degeneration and a prominent motor control researcher. We are honored and priveleged to join in his care.
Dr. Schmidt is professor emeritus in the department of psychology at UCLA. He currently runs his own consulting firm, Human Performance Research, working in the area of human factors and human performance. Known as one of the leaders in research on motor behavior, Dr. Schmidt has more than 35 years' experience in this area and has published widely.
The originator of schema theory, Dr. Schmidt founded the Journal of Motor Behavior in 1969 and was editor for 11 years. He authored the first edition of Motor Control and Learning in 1982, followed up with a second edition of the popular text in 1988, and collaborated with Tim Lee for the third edition in 1999 and fourth edition in 2005.
Dr. Schmidt received an honorary doctorate from Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, in recognition of his work. Schmidt is a member of the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity (of which he was president in 1982), the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, and the Psychonomic Society. Dr. Schmidt has received the C.H. McCloy Research Lectureship from the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance.