Gerard Peter Brennan

Gerard Brennan, PT, PhD, FAPTA, is experienced in the management of patients from the aspect of care delivery and measurement of treatment effectiveness, effectively integrating standardization of care in physical therapy and consistent tracking of patient-centered outcomes. For the past 25 years, Brennan has been in practice at Intermountain Healthcare, working closely with primary care physicians, orthopedic surgeons and spine specialist physicians in the management of surgical and nonsurgical patients. He holds a PhD in Exercise Science & Sport from the University of Utah-Salt Lake City; MS in Physical Therapy from Duke University; and BA in Biology from Providence College. As a previous Senior Research Scientist and Director of Research for Rehabilitation Services at Intermountain Healthcare, Brennan developed and supervised ongoing efforts in physical therapy to standardize care and to measure patient-centered outcome measures on approximately 20,000 patients per year using an