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Dr. de Lateur is a 1963 graduate of the University Of Washington School Of Medicine, where she also completed an M.S. degree. She obtained her PM&R residency training at the University of Washington Hospital. Before coming to Baltimore, Dr. de Lateur's medical career was centered in Washington State where she held positions as Physiatrist-in-Chief of Harborview Medical Center in Seattle and Professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She was Chairman of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Johns Hopkins from 1994 to 2004
Dr. de Lateur has been directly and continuously involved in resident training since 1967. She continues to serve as a clinical and research mentor for residents, fellows and junior faculty within the PM&R department. She has more than 200 publications and is currently the co-investigator for the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) Burn Model System Grant at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and principal investigator on the Augmented Exercise Program (AEP) Study for patients with major burns.
She holds a joint appointment in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Department of Health Policy and Management. Dr. de Lateur is the third physiatrist elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. In 1998, she received the Distinguished Academician Award from the Association of Academic Physiatrists.
Dr. de Lateur's clinical and research interests include exercise studies in the prevention and treatment of frailty and obesity, as well as biomechanics of gait and muscle tone in stroke, transverse myelitis, normal pressure hydrocephalus and other conditions. She directs the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation's Biomechanics Research Laboratory which provides assessment tools to researchers in the fields of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Internal Medicine (exercise physiology).
Dr. de Lateur teaches applied musculoskeletal anatomy and other topics to medical students, residents and fellows at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and in Tanzania, East Africa. She presents annually to the Italian Society of Neuropathophysiology and Rehabilitation in the Umbria region of Italy
Education:
B.S. St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri
M.D. University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington.
M.S. University of Washington School of Medicine and Graduate School.
Faculty Appointments:
Distinguished Service Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Joint Professor of Health Policy and Management, School of Hygiene and Public Health
Hospital Appointments:
Chairman, Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins Hospita
Medical Director, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine. Good Samaritan Hospital
Baltimore MD 1993-2004
Consulting Physiatrist, Johns Hopkins Geriatrics Center, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. 1995- present
Joint Appointment, Department of Hygiene & Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
Medical Director, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. 1995- 2006
Specialty Certifications:
American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Fellow, American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Honors:
Recipient of the Frank H. Krusen Award from the AAPM&R
Listed in the publication “Top Docs” in 2004
Named Distinguished Service Professor by the Johns Hopkins University Board of Trustees
Golden Goniometer Outstanding Teaching Award, 1995, 2001-2006
Visiting Professor, University of Washington
Visiting Professor, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
Who’s Who in American Medicine
Received “Clinical Research Award” at the American Burn Association at the 2004 convention
Representative Publications:
de Lateur BJ: Quality of Life: A Patient-Centered Outcome. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Vol. 78, No. 3, March 1997, pp 237-239.
Buchner DM, Cress ME, Wagner EH, de Lateur BJ, Price R, Abrass IB: The Seattle FICSIT/MoveIt Study:
The effect of exercise on gait and balance in older adults. J Am Geriatr Soc; 41:321-325, 1993 March.
Shore W, Williams MA, Köhlmeier KV, Imetyez H, Rose G, de Lateur BJ. A Comparison of Gait
Assessment Methods: Tinetti and GaitRite Electronic Walkway. Journal of the American Geriatric Society, November 2005; 53(11):2004.
Fauerbach JA, Lezotte D, Cromes FG, de Lateur BJ, Blakeney P, Wiechman SA. Burden of burn: a norm based inquiry into the influence of burn size and distress on recovery of physical and psychosocial function, Journal of Burn Care Rehabilitation, 2005 Jan-Feb; 26(1):21-32
Encyclopedia of Disability (General editor, Gary L. Albrecht. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Productions 2006 W. Schalick, Ed. Chapter on Modalities Volume 2
Encyclopedia of Disability (General editor, Gary L. Albrecht. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Productions 2006 W. Schalick, Ed. Hydrotherapy. Volume 3
Klein MB, Lezotte DL, Fauerbach JA, Herndon DV, Kowalske KJ, Carrougher GJ, de Lateur BJ,
Holavanahalli R, Esselman PC, SanAgustin TB, Engrav LH. The NIDRR Burn Model System Database: A Tool for the Multi-center Study of the Outcome of Burn Injury. In press Journal of Burn Care and Research.
de Lateur BJ, Shore W, Morozova O, Lee J, Buchner D, Relative Strength Predicts Function Even in the Obese. Journal of the American Geriatric Society, Letter to the Editor, July 2006; 54(7):1158-1159. |
