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Received: 3 January 2019

Accepted: 25 April 2019

First Online: 27 May 2019

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: WD has been the Director of PT Clinical Services at FOX Rehabilitation, overseeing the clinical practice of several hundred physical therapists, since 2014. He more recently became the Director of the FOX Geriatric Residency in Physical Therapy, from which he graduated in 2013 and obtained his board certification in geriatric physical therapy.He is an active APTA member and has held various leadership positions within APTANJ and APTA national. Since 2013, he has presented at state level APTANJ district meetings, semi-annual conferences, APTA’s Combined Sections Meeting, APTA’s NEXT Conference, and the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons Annual Meeting. In 2017, he was the recipient of the clinical excellence in geriatrics award from the Academy of Geriatric Physical Therapy. His main areas of interest are falls and balance, quality improvement in geriatric physical therapy, and residency/fellowship education.AG is Professor and Chair of the Department of Rehabilitation Science and a professor within the program. Previously, AG was Deputy Director, Health Services Research and Development Service, Office of Research and Development, Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC. AG also spent 10 years as Senior Vice President, Division of Practice and Research, American Physical Therapy Association (APTA). Before moving to the Washington DC area, he was Director of Physical Therapy Services at Massachusetts General Hospital, and also worked for 11 years with the Boston University Multipurpose Arthritis Center as part of the Health Services Research Unit.AG’s research interests are in geriatrics, health status measurement, and functional outcomes after rehabilitation. He has received grant funding from the Arthritis Foundation and was the recipient of a Special Emphasis Research Career Award from the National Institute on Aging. His clinical practice has centered mainly on geriatrics and musculoskeletal impairment in older adults.JC, an Assistant Research Professor, teaches Research Design and Statistics in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine. His research interests include theory of measurement; application of statistical models to the estimation of properties of instruments used in Rehabilitation and to diagnostic tests more broadly; nonparametric modeling and development and dissemination of statistical best practices in applications.

: This study was reviewed and exempted as human subjects research by the Institutional Review Board of George Mason University.

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