Associate Professor
University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Sethi is a licensed occupational therapist with expertise in neuromodulation, biomechanics, motor control, and neurorehabilitation expertise. He is the Director of the Neuromotor Recovery and Rehabilitation Lab, which focuses on understanding the mechanisms of recovery to inform the development of interventions and technologies to improve motor function in individuals post-stroke. His research is funded through intramural and extramural grants, including a recent R21 that examines the effect of paired corticospinal-motoneuronal stimulation and functional electrical stimulation-facilitated task-specific practice on neuronal excitability. He has over 20 years of clinical and research experience in occupational therapy and rehabilitation sciences. His clinical experience, combined with my expertise in neuromodulatory and neurophysiological assessments, provides me with a unique ability to develop pragmatic interventions that are not only based on mechanism-informed and theory-driven interventions but are also clinically translatable. His early work has used innovative methods (e.g., non-linear analyses) and biomechanical analyses to characterize the motor control deficits in upper extremity movement in neurologically intact individuals and individuals post-stroke. Later, he received extensive experience in neuromodulation and neurophysiology through the prestigious NINDS-Stroke Net Fellowship. He has also been involved as a research investigator on an NIH-funded multi-center clinical trial (TRANSPORT 2).
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