DOCTOR OF PHYSICAL THERAPY DIVISION

Academic Appointments

Director of Graduate Studies, Associate Professor, Doctor of Physical Therapy Division, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University School Of Medicine

 

Education

University of Miami, The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, postdoctoral fellow, 1990-1992
Medical College of Virginia, Ph.D. (Anatomy), 1989
Medical College of Virginia, M.S. (Anatomy), 1987
University of Pittsburgh, B.S. (Physical Therapy), 1981

 

Teaching Responsibilities

PT303 - Embryology, Histology, Pathology and Tissue Biomechanics I

PT404 - Neurologic Practice Management I

PT412 - Neurolgical Practice Management II

PT415 - Patient/Client Management Seminar III

PT510 - Portfolio

Practice

Neurorehabilitation; rehabilitation of neurologically impaired adults.

Research

Functional outcomes of physical therapy interventions in neurologically impaired and    elderly individuals.

 Publications

• Erb   DE , Povlishock JT.  Axonal damage in severe traumatic brain injury:  An experimental study in the cat. Acta Neuropathologica.  76:347-358, 1988.

 

• Ellison MD, Erb DI, Kontos HA, Povlishock JT.  Recovery of impaired endothelium-dependent relaxation following fluid-percussion brain injury.  Stroke.  20:911-917, 1989.

 

• Erb DE , Povlishock JT.  Neuroplasticity following traumatic brain injury:  A study of GABAergic terminal loss and recovery in the cat dorsal lateral vestibular nucleus.  Experimental  Brain Research.  83:253-267, 1991.

 

• Povlishock JT, Erb DE, Astruc JA.  The axonal response to traumatic brain injury:  Reactive axonal change, deafferentation and neuroplasticity.  Journal of  Neurotrauma.  9 Suppl.  1:S189-200, 1992.

 

• Erb DE, Mora JR, and Bunge RP.  Reinnervation of adult rat gastrocnemius muscle by embryonic motoneurons transplanted into the axotomized tibial nerve.  Experimental Neurology.  124:372-376, 1993.

 

• Thomas CK. Erb DE. Grumbles RM. Bunge RP. Embryonic cord transplants in peripheral nerve restore skeletal muscle function. Journal of Neurophysiology. 84(1):591-5, 2000 Jul.

 

• Thomas CK, Sesodia S, Erb , DE , and Grumbles RM, Properties of medial gastrocnemius motor units reinnervated by embryonic ventral spinal cord cells. Experimental Neurology.  180:25-31. 2003. 

 

• Cook C. Goode A. Erb D. Richardson J. Pietrobon R. Validation of an item bank in a sample of community-dwelling survivors of a stroke. Journal of Geriatric Physical Therapy. 29(3):107-14, 2006. 

 

 Books and Chapters

 

• Povlishock JT, Erb DE, Astruc JA. The axonal response to traumatic brain injury:  Reactive axonal change, deafferentation and neuroplasticity, In:  1991 Neurotrauma Status Report, Eds. JA Jane, DK Anderson, JC Torner and W Young, Marianne-Liebert Publishers, NY, 1991.

Awards and Honors

1999 Outstanding Teacher Award, Graduate School , University of Miami , Miami , FL

 

1997 Excellence in Teaching Award, Division of Physical Therapy, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami , FL.

 

1997 Faculty Address Commencement Speaker, Division of Physical Therapy, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL.

 

1984 A.D. Williams Scholarship

 

1981 Mary McMillan Scholarship

 

1980 Stuart Drug Scholarship

 

1980 R.Lewis Brown Student Achievement Award

 

 

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