Stacey Dusing PT, PhD, FAPTA
Associate Professor
Dr. Stacey Dusing is a board certified Pediatric Physical Therapy Specialist with more than 25 years of experience working with infants, children and families. Dr. Dusing has maintained her clinical practice in pediatrics throughout her career in teaching and research. She appreciates working with families and seeing the translation of research to practice every day. As a highly experienced neonatal physical therapist, internationally recognized researchers in early intervention for infants born preterm, and with early signs of PT, Dusing brings a unique view to the integration of research and practice.
Dusing was born and raised in Buffalo NY, Lived in Roanoke VA, until moving to Chapel Hill NC where she completed her MS and PhD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Throughout her graduate training she worked clinically at Duke University Medical Center (and loved to watch college basketball). Dusing was on faculty in the Physical Therapy Department at Virginia Commonwealth University for 15 years, including 2 years in which she worked from the University of Delaware while completing mentored research training with J. Cole Galloway as part of the Comprehensive Opportunities in Rehabilitation Research Training program.
Dusing transitioned her research to USC in 2020 as the Sykes Family Chair of Pediatric Physical Therapy, Health and Development, the Director of Pediatric Research, and Director of the Motor Development Lab. She is an advocate for inclusion of people from under-represented groups in her research, advocates for people with developmental disabilities across the lifespan, and enjoys mentoring the next generation of pediatric physical therapists and movement science researchers.
Outside of work Dr. Dusing is a mother of 2 teenagers, loves to hike with her husband and 2 dogs, bike, scuba dive, and travel. Her favorite trip combined all her loves with a family trip to Australia in 2019. She and her family look forward to resuming travel in 2022 as the COVID-19 pandemic improves.