Home Health Care Management and Practice Vol:15, Issue:1, pp 20-26, 2002 Youssef F and Wong R: Educating clinicians to assess quality of life in patients with chronic illness. Section on Geriatrics, American Physical Therapy Association, 2011. Essential Competencies in the care of older adults at the completion of the entry-level physical therapist professional program of study. Wong R, Barr J, Avers D, Klimas D, Thompson M. Building the Physical Therapy Workforce for an Aging America. Preparing Students to Provide Services to Older Adults. Recent and Relevant Peer-reviewed Publications :īarr JO, Wong R. Wong (Eds.), Guccione’s Geriatric Physical Therapy (4th ed., pp 527-543). Wong (Eds.), Guccione’s Geriatric Physical Therapy (4th ed., pp 85-10 Elsevier. Environmental Design: Accommodating Sensory Changes and Mobility Limitations in Older Adults. Guccione’s Geriatric Physical Therapy (4th ed.). Wong is a Catherine Worthingham Fellow of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) as well as a Joan Mills and Lucy Blair Service Award recipient from the Academy of Geriatric Physical Therapy.Īvers, D., & Wong, R. Wong has served as the principal investigator for two Department of Health and Human Services, Administration of Community Living (HHS: ACL) grants to embed evidence-based falls prevention programs into the Northern Virginia Community.ĭr. Her research has focused on preparing health care students to work with older adults, falls prevention, and health and wellness of older adults.ĭr. She is a co-editor of a nationally recognized textbook on Geriatric Physical therapy, now in its 4th edition and a founding member of the Academy of Geriatric Physical Therapy’s Geriatric Specialty Council that oversees the Geriatric Physical Therapy Clinical Specialist Certification process. Wong has over 40 years of academic and clinical experience in physical rehabilitation and health promotion for older adults. She has been a champion for the establishment of Marymount’s Center of Optimal Aging and continues in a leadership role with the Center, linking community groups with the Center.ĭr. In 2017, oversight of research activities was added to her responsibilities. In 2013, she transitioned into an academic affairs administration role overseeing graduate education. She came to Marymount in 1995 as the founding Director of Marymount’s Physical Therapy program where she served in a leadership role from 1995 until 2013. Wong serves as the Associate Vice-President for Research, overseeing both external and internal research funding, strategic initiatives related to research, and faculty growth and development as researchers. Bachelor of Science in Physical Therapyĭr. Boston University, Sargent College, Master of Science in Physical Therapy.Clark University, Department of Education.
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