Jennifer Ann LaCross

Jennifer LaCross, PT, DPT, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Doctor of Physical Therapy Program at University of Michigan-Flint with a joint appointment at Michigan Medicine in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology- Pelvic Floor Research Group. Dr. LaCross is a board-certified Pelvic & Women’s Health clinical specialist, who remains active in clinical practice. She obtained her DPT from Washington University in St. Louis in 2014, completed a pelvic health residency at University of Pittsburgh in 2015, and earned her PhD in Physical Therapy from Texas Woman’s University in 2023, where she studied squatting mechanics in active females with acetabular dysplasia. She then spent 3 years as an NIH-funded postdoctoral research fellow with University of Michigan’s internationally recognized Pelvic Floor Research Group, where she began investigating the intersection of aging, physical activity, and birth injury-related changes on pelvic floor symptoms, anatomy, and motor control