Dr. deLateur is a 1963 graduate of the University Of Washington School Of Medicine, where she also completed an M.S. degree. She obtained her PM&R residency training at the University of Washington Hospital. Before coming to Baltimore, Dr. deLateur's medical career was centered in Washington State, where she held positions as Physiatrist-in-Chief of Harborview Medical Center in Seattle and Professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She was Chairman of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Johns Hopkins from 1994 to 2004 Dr. deLateur has been directly and continuously involved in resident training since 1967. She continues to serve as a clinical and research mentor for residents, fellows and junior faculty within the PM&R department. She has more than 200 publications and is currently the co-investigator for the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) Burn Model System Grant at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and principal investigator on the Augmented Exercise Program (AEP) Study for patients with major burns. She holds a joint appointment in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Department of Health Policy and Management. Dr. deLateur is the third physiatrist elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. In 1998, she received the Distinguished Academician Award from the Association of Academic Physiatrists. Dr. de Lateur's clinical and research interests include exercise studies in the prevention and treatment of frailty and obesity, as well as biomechanics of gait and muscle tone in stroke, transverse myelitis, normal pressure hydrocephalus and other conditions. She directs the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation's Biomechanics Research Laboratory which provides assessment tools to researchers in the fields of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Internal Medicine (exercise physiology). Dr. deLateur taught applied musculoskeletal anatomy and other topics to medical students, residents and fellows in Tanzania, East Africa, 2004-2007,and continues to do so at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She presented annually to the Italian Society of Neuropathophysiology and Rehabilitation in Italy, 2002-2006. Education:
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Representative Publications: Lehmann JF, Price R, deLateur BJ, Hinderer S, Traynor C: Spasticity: quantitative measurements as a basis for assessing effectiveness of therapeutic intervention. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 70:6-15, 198 deLateur BJ: Quality of Life: A Patient-Centered Outcome. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Vol. 78, No. 3, March 1997, pp 237-239. Lehmann JF, Boswell S, Price R, Burleigh A, deLateur BJ, Jaffe K, Hertling D: Quantitative evaluation of sway as an indicator of functional balance in post-traumatic brain injury. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 71:955-962, 1990 Buchner DM, Cress ME, Wagner EH, de Lateur BJ, Price R, Abrass IB: The Seattle FICSIT/MoveIt Study: The effect of exercise on gait and balance in older adults. J Am Geriatr Soc; 41:321-325, 1993 March. Shore WS, deLateur BJ, Kuhlemeier KV, Imetyez H, Rose G, Williams MA. A Comparison of Gait Assessment Methods: Tinetti and GaitRite Electronic Walkway. Journal of the American Geriatric Society, 2005 Nov; 53(11):2044-5. Fauerbach JA, Lezotte D, Cromes FG, de Lateur BJ, Blakeney P, Wiechman SA. Burden of burn: a norm based inquiry into the influence of burn size and distress on recovery of physical and psychosocial function, Journal of Burn Care Rehabilitation, 2005 Jan-Feb; 26(1):21-32. Encyclopedia of Disability (General editor, Gary L. Albrecht. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Productions 2006 W. Schalick, Ed. Chapter on Modalities Volume 2. Encyclopedia of Disability (General editor, Gary L. Albrecht. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Productions 2006 W. Schalick, Ed. Chapter on Hydrotherapy. Volume 3. deLateur BJ, Shore W, Morozova O, Lee J, Buchner D, Relative Strength Predicts Function Even in the Obese. Journal of the American Geriatric Society, July 2006; 54(7):1158-1159. Shore WS, de Lateur BJ. Prevention and Treatment of Frailty in the Postmenopausal Woman. Phys Med Rehabil Clin N Am. 2007 Aug;18(3):609-21, xii. Review. deLateur BJ ; Magyar-Russell G; Bresnick MG; Bernier FA; Ober MS; Krabak BJ; Ware L; Hayes MP; Fauerbach JA. Augmented Exercise in the Treatment of Deconditioning from Major Burn Injury. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2007;88 (Suppl 2):S18-23. Williams MA, Thomas G, deLateur BJ, Imteyaz H, Rose JG, Shore W, Kharkar S, Rigamonti D. Objective Assessment of Gait in Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus. Am J Phys Med Rehabil Jan: 2008; 87:39-45. Kern, D., Thomas P. (eds). Cirriculum Development for Medical Education: A Six Step Approach. Baltimore, MD; JHU Press, 2009. Address: Phone: 410-550-5299 | |
