Shashwati Geed, PT, PhD
Principal Investigator
Shashwati Geed is a neurorehabilitation scientist and licensed physical therapist whose work focuses on how the timing, dose, and context of rehabilitation jointly shape brain plasticity and motor behavior after stroke and spinal cord injury.
Dr. Geed is a tenure‑track Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy and Movement Sciences at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), with a secondary appointment in Biomedical Engineering. She holds a PhD in motor control and neuroscience from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and completed advanced postdoctoral training in neurorehabilitation and clinical research in Washington, DC, supported by fellowships from the American Heart Association, NINDS StrokeNet, and NIDILRR. Before joining UTEP, Dr. Geed was a research‑track assistant professor in Rehabilitation Medicine at Georgetown University and a NIH K12 scholar in the Neurorehabilitation and Restorative Neurosciences Training Network.
Her current work builds an integrated program around three questions: how to identify and extend windows of heightened neuroplasticity after neurologic injury, how to measure real‑world motor recovery using sensors and pragmatic assessments, and how to deliver intensive rehabilitation earlier and more equitably through health‑system and community partnerships. She leads federally and system‑funded studies that combine neuromodulation, wearable sensors, and implementation approaches to test telerehabilitation and community‑based models of post‑stroke and spinal cord injury care.
Over the next decade, her work aims to link mechanistic markers of plasticity with sensor‑based outcomes and pragmatic care models so that the timing and delivery of neurorehabilitation after stroke and related neurologic injuries can be optimized in routine practice.
Teaching and mentoring. Dr. Geed teaches required neuroscience and neuromuscular rehabilitation courses in the Doctor of Physical Therapy curriculum and mentors undergraduate, DPT capstone, doctoral, and medical trainees involved in clinical and translational neurorehabilitation research. Her teaching in Neurorehabilitation and Neuroscience at UTEP is consistently rated highly by students (4.7-4.8/5).
Professional service. She contributes to institutional review and national peer review through IRB membership, grant reviewing (including NIH and VA panels), and editorial work in neurorehabilitation and rehabilitation outcomes.
For more details, see Dr. Geed's CV
Dr. Geed is a tenure‑track Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy and Movement Sciences at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), with a secondary appointment in Biomedical Engineering. She holds a PhD in motor control and neuroscience from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and completed advanced postdoctoral training in neurorehabilitation and clinical research in Washington, DC, supported by fellowships from the American Heart Association, NINDS StrokeNet, and NIDILRR. Before joining UTEP, Dr. Geed was a research‑track assistant professor in Rehabilitation Medicine at Georgetown University and a NIH K12 scholar in the Neurorehabilitation and Restorative Neurosciences Training Network.
Her current work builds an integrated program around three questions: how to identify and extend windows of heightened neuroplasticity after neurologic injury, how to measure real‑world motor recovery using sensors and pragmatic assessments, and how to deliver intensive rehabilitation earlier and more equitably through health‑system and community partnerships. She leads federally and system‑funded studies that combine neuromodulation, wearable sensors, and implementation approaches to test telerehabilitation and community‑based models of post‑stroke and spinal cord injury care.
Over the next decade, her work aims to link mechanistic markers of plasticity with sensor‑based outcomes and pragmatic care models so that the timing and delivery of neurorehabilitation after stroke and related neurologic injuries can be optimized in routine practice.
Teaching and mentoring. Dr. Geed teaches required neuroscience and neuromuscular rehabilitation courses in the Doctor of Physical Therapy curriculum and mentors undergraduate, DPT capstone, doctoral, and medical trainees involved in clinical and translational neurorehabilitation research. Her teaching in Neurorehabilitation and Neuroscience at UTEP is consistently rated highly by students (4.7-4.8/5).
Professional service. She contributes to institutional review and national peer review through IRB membership, grant reviewing (including NIH and VA panels), and editorial work in neurorehabilitation and rehabilitation outcomes.
For more details, see Dr. Geed's CV