Lewis Receives Sabbatical Award from BU-CTSI

Associate Professor Cara L. Lewis, PT, PhD, in the department of physical therapy & athletic training, received a Mini Sabbatical Award from the Boston University Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI). CTSI’s mission is to support BU’s basic researchers, patient-oriented researchers, and population-based researchers working in all areas of translational research related to the prevention, diagnosis, and management of human disease.

This award will help fund a collaboration with Andrew Edward Anderson, PhD, at the University of Utah Department of Bioengineering. Anderson’s work focuses on using dual fluoroscopy to investigate hip joint arthrokinematics during movement. The collaborative pilot project will assess how changes in movement at the whole body level affect changes inside the joint.

Lewis’ scholarly research interests include studying musculoskeletal causes of hip pain and biomechanical analysis of human movement. She is the director of the Sargent Human Adaptation Laboratory which is dedicated to furthering the understanding of motor adaptation and developing interventions to reduce hip pain.