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Rachel A. Prusynski, DPT, PhD (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, United States

Rachel Prusynski is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Physical Therapy in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Washington. Her health services research agenda focuses on the intersections between health and reimbursement policy, therapy practice, and patient outcomes in post-acute care, specifically Skilled Nursing Facilities. She is a board-certified clinical specialist in Neurologic Physical Therapy with a decade of clinical experience across the continuum from ICU to community-based care. Her experience in Haiti and in the U.S. working with low-income older adults guides her research interests in quality of care and equity for historically marginalized communities.

Dr. Prusynski's research has been funded by the NIA, the Learning Health Systems Rehabilitation Research Network, the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA), and the National Center for Advancing Translational Health Sciences, among others. She serves on the APTA House of Delegates and as a member of the PT Journal editorial board. She is the winner of the 2022 APTA Dorothy Briggs Memorial Scientific Inquiry Award, awarded to an author in the Association’s Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Journal (PTJ), whose research and discussion has made a measurable contribution to the knowledge base of physical therapy.

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