Maura Daly Iversen, PT, DPT, SD, MPH, FAPTA, FNAP
Dr. Iversen is Professor and Chair of Physical Therapy, Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences at Northeastern University, Boston, MA. She is also Senior Lecturer in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Adjunct Foreign Professor, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, an Affiliated Professor, Thurston Arthritis Center, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and an adjunct faculty of the HERACLEIA Human Centered Laboratory, University of Texas, Arlington. She serves as Behavioral Scientist and Clinical Epidemiologist, Section of Clinical Sciences, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. Iversen was the former Scientific Advisor to the Musculoskeletal and Physical Therapy Research Center (FoF) at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
Iversen is a Catherine Worthingham Fellow of the American Physical Therapy Association, a Distinguished Scholar and Fellow in the US National Academy of Practice. Iversen was the 2011 Distinguished Scholar and the 2013 Distinguished Lecturer for the Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals, American College of Rheumatology. She has received awards for advocacy, research and/or professional service from the Arthritis Foundation, the American College of Rheumatology and the American Physical Therapy Association.
Dr Iversen’s research focuses on clinical trials of exercise, behavioral interventions to improve adherence to pharmacologic/non-pharmacologic therapies and to promote physical activity in persons with arthritis, and has developed a number of patient-oriented outcome measures (PROs). She has received funding from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, the National Arthritis Foundation, Foundation for Physical Therapy, Rheumatology Research Foundation (formerly REF), and the Farnsworth Foundation. She serves as collaboratoron National Science Foundation grants to facilitate transfer of technology into health care.