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The University's newest doctoral program--Human Movement Science--won approval
from the Board of Governors at its June meeting.
The interdisciplinary program will train researchers to study the best ways to
maintain health, prevent disability and improve human movement.
Some examples of the many health issues that graduates of the human movement
program will study are ways to rehabilitate broken bones or torn ligaments,
therapy for arthritis and exercises that help prevent injuries, said Carol
Giuliani, associate professor of medical allied health professions and director
of the new program.
"We will prepare researchers to determine what is the best treatment for an
injury and what is the best exercise program for a person with a certain
condition to follow," Giuliani said. "Right now there is very little
information on what type of exercises are really the best, the best duration of
exercises, the best programs to restore movement."
Organizers are now hard at work producing a course schedule and brochures
describing the new program so that they can start recruiting students this
fall. The first class of three to five students will start in Fall 1999.
Approval for the new program came after about 10 years of work by dozens of
people in many different parts of the School of Medicine, Giuliani said. The
interdisciplinary program combines the expertise of the following departments:
medical allied health division of physical therapy; physical education,
exercise and sports science; biomedical engineering; rehabilitation medicine;
computer science and the Program on Aging.
The Human Movement Science doctoral program is part of the Department of
Medical Allied Health in the School of Medicine.
The program is the first of its kind in North Carolina and one of the few
nationwide, Giuliani said.
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