LUISA FERNANDA GARCÍA SALAZAR  |  Faculty Member

Professor of the Physical Therapy program of the School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Universidad del Rosario, and member of the Rehabilitation Sciences research group. Physical Therapist from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, with a master's degree in Physical Therapy from the Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar) (Brazil). Currently, she is a doctoral student of Physical Therapy at UFSCar. Scholarship holder of the Support Program for Doctoral Studies of the Universidad del Rosario and of the Programa de Estudantes-Convênio de Pós-Graduação PEC-PG/CNPq - Brazil. Active reviewer of the American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. He has experience in the field of neuro-rehabilitation with emphasis on the evaluation and intervention of Neurofunctional Physiotherapy in post-stroke individuals. She has a partnership with the Laboratorio de Pesquisa em Fisioterapia Neurológica (LaFiN) and with the Grupo de Funcionalidade e Inovação Tecnológica em Neuroreabilitação (GFIT-Neuro), both from UFSCar. She has facilitated the mobility of undergraduate students for collaborative work between foreign universities. She has publications in high-impact journals in the area of neuro-rehabilitation and is currently working with translational research. She is interested in studies of functional recovery therapies and assessment tools for neurological patients; kinematics, molecular biomarkers and sedentary behavior.