Now managing more than $2 million in funded research, SAMP's faculty are nationally and internationally recognized for groundbreaking research and scholarly publications on a wide range of allied health topics and specialities:

D. Michele Basso, EdD, is Principal Investigator on a Christopher Reeve Foundation grant to establish a specialty clinic for patients with spinal cord injury and other neurological disorders, and to quantify response to treatments.

John Borstad, PhD, funded by the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, is investigating shoulder motion limitations following breast cancer treatment.

John Buford, PhD, is the Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator on NIH-funded studies that considered neural control of movement, carpal tunnel syndrome, neuroanatomy of the retculospinal system and innovations in neuroscience teaching.

Deborah Heiss, PhD, is working on an NIH-funded study of the treatment of low-back pain.

Deborah Larsen, PhD, was site Principal Investigator on two multi-center clinical trials under the umbrella name Extremity Constraint Induced Therapy Evaluation, the largest trial of a rehabilitation technique for upper extremely recovery after a stroke.  Results were published in the Journal of American Medical Association.

Stephen Wilson, PhD, on collaboration with Mark Sothman, PhD, at Indiana University, was awarded $1 million from the Department of defense to establish the OSU-IU Center for Traumatic Amputee Rehabilitation Research to study the rehabilitation and health care of veterans with war-related amputations.