Meet Dr. Jessica Cassidy, a postdoc in the laboratory of Dr. Steven Cramer in the Dept. of Neurology. Her projects focus on central nervous system repair in humans and encompass telerehabilitation, neuroimaging, and EEG application in stroke. She earned her Ph.D. in Rehabilitation Science with a Neuroscience minor at the University of Minnesota where her research utilized transcranial magnetic stimulation in chronic stroke to examine homeostatic plasticity mechanisms following therapy.
Jessica earned her Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) and practiced physical therapy in adult and pediatric neurorehabilitation settings prior to and during her doctoral studies. She is an adjunct faculty member at Chapman University in the Doctor of Physical Therapy Program. Her work received funding from the Foundation for Physical Therapy and NIH. She is currently a T32 trainee on the UC Irvine Multidisciplinary Exercise Science Training Program (PI: Dr. Vince Caiozzo).
Jessica’s presentation, Predicting Post-Stroke Motor Recovery with Measurements of Brain Function and Structure, earned her first place at the recent UCI Postdoctoral Research symposium.