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Faculty Updates cont. Mehta Joins UAB Department of Physical Therapy Faculty Tapan Mehta, PhD joined the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Physical Therapy Faculty this Summer. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy and an associate scien st with the Nutri on Obesity Research Center. He will direct and lead the sta s cal analysis and design of the UAB/ Lakeshore Research collabora ve in the area of disability and rehabilita on sciences. Dr. Mehta’s interests lie in aggrega ng and integra ng silos of genomic, epidemiological and administra ve data, to inves gate
Tapan Mehta, PhD
interes ng scien fic ques ons, through novel applica ons of sta s cal methods and compu ng pla orms. He is especially interested in pursuing scien fic inquiry in topics related to obesity, longevity, disability, and health policy and interven ons. Dr. Mehta completed his doctoral degree in Biosta s cs at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in 2013 under the mentorship of Dr. David B. Allison. His disserta on involved evalua ng methodological and empirical issues in evalua ng the apparent decline in obesity‐mortality associa on over calendar me. He has worked as a full‐ me compu ng professional, biosta s cian and data scien st at the UAB School of Public Health, for 8+ years. During this me, he has led and collaborated in a variety of health‐related analy c projects including obesity‐related epidemiological studies and a variety of genomic projects. His responsibili es included managing and conduc ng data analyses and methodology development projects, provide sound high performance compu ng and so ware engineering support, and author manuscripts as well as grant progress reports. Dr. Mehta also has a M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering (2004) from the UAB with a specializa on in so ware engineering and data mining. His thesis topic was about evalua ng the stability of clustering algorithms when applied to high dimensional microarray data. Welcome to Dr. Mehta.
The PT class of 1974 is planning a 40th year class reunion in 2014. For more informa on please contact Ron Richardson at rrichardson@therapysouth.net
Alumni News Andrew Wolverton (DPT Class of 2011) and his wife Trista welcomed a new baby boy, Wesley Andrew on April 11, 2013. Karlie Lewis Brantley (DPT class of 2008) and Dorothy Mandel Powell (DPT class of 2009) completed requirements for the Specialist Cer fica on in Neurologic Physical Therapy and Sara Bradman Narbecki (MS,PT class of 1985) completed requirements for the Specialist Cer fica on in Pediatric Physical Therapy. All three will be recognized in the Specialist Cer fica on Ceremonies at Combined Sec ons Mee ng in Las Vegas in 2014. Chantel Jones and Kenny Jno‐Finn (both DPT Class of 2007) recently announced their marriage engagement. Robin and Brian Riddle (both DPT Class of 2007) welcomed their second child, Ethan Wya Riddle on August 2, 2013. Doherty Colgin Riebessel (DPT class of 2009) and her husband Ryan welcomed a new baby girl, Avery Elizabeth Riebessel on May 18, 2013.