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Research Physical Therapist
James A. Haley VA Hospital
Lisa Ballistrea, MSPT, DPT,TPS, CDP, is a physical therapist with 22 years of clinical experience and 15 years of clinical research experience. She is currently employed as a physical therapist with Research Services at the James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital. She is a program coordinator for national quality improvement project to evaluate Interdisciplinary Pain Rehabilitation Programs and development of a dashboard for core outcome measures. She is currently involved as a clinical researcher using Machine Learning for Postural Assessments while performing clinical outcome measures. She was also a project manager for a multi-site randomized controlled trial for self-directed care using virtual programs for Veterans with PTSD and chronic pain. She was a site PI for a study called Women with Amputations: The Unique Needs of an Underserved Population. Her areas of interest include machine learning to automatically identify movements and score clinical outcome measures, physical, psychological and social impacts of Veteran amputees, quality improvement and implementation research for electronic healthcare delivery for Veterans, and quality improvement in Whole Health Program in the VA system. Dr. Ballistrea’s previous clinical research work focused on Veterans with Dementia and Caregiver burden, Robotic Exoskeleton device to help increase functional mobility in the spinal cord injury (SCI) population, and using Virtual Reality to help decrease chronic pain in Veterans. Dr. Ballistrea continues to work in quality improvement, evaluation and implementation and research with Lower Extremity Amputee.
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