Assistant Professor
The Ohio State University
Lise Worthen-Chaudhari, PhD, MFA, CMES connects health science to the creative arts at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. Seeking to drive neurorecovery from chemotherapy-induced functional deficits such as neuropathy, Worthen-Chaudhari applies principles from dance, biomechanics, and motor learning to design and evaluate interventions. Her work is funded by the National Institutes of Health and has been commercialized by Columbus-based start up, Rekovo.
A former professional contemporary dancer, Worthen-Chaudhari is an Assistant Professor in OSU’s Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. She is the Director of Dodd Hall's Motion Analysis and Recovery Biomechanics Laboratory (MARBL) and a faculty affiliate of OSU's Cancer Control Program and Chronic Brain Injury Discovery Themes Initiative. 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 the OSU School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences.