Assistant Professor
The Ohio State University
Lise Worthen-Chaudhari, PhD, MFA, MS, CMES leverages her deep experience in both biomechanics and the arts to improve neurorehabilitation. She applies creatively engaged activity paradigms, such as partnered dance and interactive art, to stimulate the injured nervous system, evaluating effect through a combination of biomechanical, patient-reported, and clinical outcomes. A former contemporary dancer for Company Chaddick, San Francisco, CA, currently Worthen-Chaudhari is an Assistant Professor in The Ohio State University (OSU) Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R). She is the Director of Dodd Hall's NeuroArtsRx Laboratory and a faculty affiliate of OSU's Cancer Control Program and Chronic Brain Injury Discovery Theme Initiative. Her work has been funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), Pelotonia Foundation, OSU Chronic Brain Injury Discovery Theme initiative, OSU Department of PM&R, industry, and philanthropic sources. Worthen-Chaudhari has served in leadership roles for the American Society of Biomechanics (Program Committee) and The American College of Rehabilitation Medicine (founding member of the Arts & Neuroscience Networking group) and teaches within OSU’s School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences.
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