Lauri Bishop

Dr. Bishop received her BS degree in Nutrition and Exercise Science from Florida State University in 1999, followed by her Doctor of Physical Therapy from the University of Miami in 2004. She held clinical positions at Johns Hopkins Hospital and at New York Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, where she worked in the ICU, and on the neurological floors in both the acute care and outpatient settings and transitioned into a research PT position at Columbia University in 2008 with a focus to improve motor function after stroke. Dr. Bishop went on to complete her PhD in Kinesiology with an emphasis in Motor Learning from Columbia University’s Teachers College in 2018 followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at University of Southern California. Dr. Bishop joined the faculty in the Department of Physical Therapy at the University of Miami as an Assistant Professor and a NIH StrokeNet Scholar in 2022. She has a dual faculty appointment with the Department of Neurology and wor