New chair announced in the College of Health

After an in depth nationwide look for, Lee Dibble, P.T., Ph.D., A.T.C., FAPTA has been named chair of University of Utah’s Section of Actual physical Therapy and Athletic Coaching in the School of Wellness, helpful July 1, 2021. Dibble will oversee all education, research, and scientific programs in the division.

“Dr. Dibble has just about 3 decades of merged clinical and tutorial encounter,” claims David H. Perrin, Ph.D., Dean of the University of Wellness. “This expertise, along with his dedication to investigation, will promote continued expansion and progress for the Office of Physical Treatment and Athletic Instruction.”

Dibble gained his Master of Science in Actual physical Remedy from Duke University adopted by a doctorate in Training and Sport Science at the College of Utah. In addition to getting a board-qualified bodily therapist, Dibble is a licensed athletic trainer by way of the Countrywide Athletic Trainers Association.

Dibble joined the College of Utah in 1993 as a bodily therapist. Upon finishing his Ph.D., he commenced a complete-time investigation and educating college job in the Department of Bodily Therapy and Athletic Schooling. He is currently a professor in the Office of Actual physical Therapy and Athletic Coaching, and serves as an adjunct professor in the Department of Occupational and Recreational Therapies, as perfectly as the Department of Wellbeing and Kinesiology. Dibble also serves as the scientific director of the College of Utah’s Equilibrium and Mobility Clinic and co-directs the Division of Bodily Treatment and Athletic Training’s Motion Seize Laboratories.

Dibble is an internationally identified specialist in Parkinson Disease rehabilitation and the examination and treatment of harmony conditions and has been repeatedly funded for his analysis more than the last 18 decades. In addition to his major analysis concentrate on exercising as a signifies of slowing the progression of Parkinson Sickness, his research examines solutions for equilibrium ailments generated by accidents to the internal ear or brain. He has published around 100 peer-reviewed analysis articles, as nicely as lots of overview posts and e book chapters. He has comprehensive countrywide, and worldwide experience as a viewing professor, lecturer, and presenter, and in 2013, was a viewing fellow at the College of Sydney’s Division of Physiotherapy.

“I have experienced the excellent privilege to be a portion of the College of Utah for additional than 25 several years, working in a variety of roles and capacities across U of U Health and key campus,” said Dibble. “I am honored to have the prospect to provide as chair of the Office of Actual physical Remedy and Athletic Instruction. I glance forward to supporting our superb college and employees as we grow the department’s national track record for excellence in health and fitness care instruction, research, and scientific care. In this new part, my leading priority will be to build and enhance the people and plans that provide fantastic medical treatment, as properly as education and investigation prospects to our students across the disciplines of physical therapy, athletic instruction, and rehabilitation science.”

Dibble succeeds R. Scott Ward, Ph.D., P.T., FAPTA as chair of the Office of Actual physical Therapy and Athletic Schooling. Less than Ward’s management, the department has produced into a nationwide leader in instruction and study with the school escalating from 8 to 25 core college, three separate diploma plans (a master’s diploma in Athletic Schooling, a medical doctorate diploma in Actual physical Treatment, and a Ph.D. diploma in Rehabilitation Science) and 250 pupils. In addition, the section has exponentially developed its analysis portfolio to consist of investigations of mobile facets of muscle functionality, scientific results, and overall health products and services research with latest once-a-year research expenses of $5 million.

Ward praised Dibble’s appointment, “Dr. Dibble is an suitable leader for the office. His working experience and leadership in clinical care, study, and teaching coupled with his collaborative type, respect of varied views, and commitment to mentorship and experienced enhancement will get the section in fascinating new instructions.”