Bailey Petersen, PhD, MS
Mentor: Amery Treble-Barna, PhD
Dr. Peterson completed her training on our T32 in 2024. She came to our program with a PhD in Bioengineering-Neural Engineering and a doctorate in physical therapy from the University of Pittsburgh. She studied BDNF DNA methylation in association with neurobehavioral recovery in children with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), incorporating physical activity monitoring into the clinical trial design. She was an outstanding trainee and received multiple awards including a two-year Early Investigator Seed Grant from the Brain Injury Association of America, and the Early Career Poster Award for the Brain Injury Interdisciplinary Special Interest Group of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Annual Conference, among others. She has six listings on PubMed. Bailey was former T32 graduate Dr. Amery Treble-Barna’s first mentee on our T32. Bailey just joined the faculty of our Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation as an Assistant Professor and has already submitted a K99 award to expand her clinical trial.