Judith M. "Judy" Burnfield is the director of the Institute for Rehabilitative Science and Engineering, director of the Movement and Neurosciences Center, and the Clifton Chair in Physical Therapy and Movement Sciences at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital in

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. Burnfield earned her

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degree from the

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and completed her postdoctoral training at the Pathokinesiology Laboratory at

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. She was appointed director of the newly designed Athletic Performance Laboratory at the

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from 2013 to 2015.

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