Dr. Douglas Haladay, PT, DPT, PhD, CSCS, Associate Professor and Associate School Director received a $95,000+ RO3 grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality as the Principle Investigator. The project title is “Feasibility of Goal Attainment Scaling as an Outcome Measure for Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain receiving Physical Therapy.”  Dr. Haladay will have three co-investigators on this project:

Dr. Laura Lee “Dolly” Swisher, PT MDiV, PhD, FNAP, FAPTA

Director and Professor

USF School of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences

Associate Dean, Morsani College of Medicine

Dr. Jay Wolfson, DrPH, JD

Distinguished Service Professor, USF College of Public Health

Associate Vice President for Health Law, Policy, and Safety

Senior Associate Dean for Health Policy and Practice, Morsani College of Medicine

Dr. Jason Beckstead, PhD. 

Associate Professor, USF College of Public Health

Dr. Haladay and his co-investigators will also work with faculty within the USF School of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences that are clinicians in the USF Health Physical Therapy Center. This is a collaborative, Interprofessional research project that will span two years.