Dr. Linda Kahn-D’Angelo has been with the Physical therapy Department since 1980 and teaches Pediatric Physical Therapy, Neuroscience: Physiology and Neurology and a Neuroanatomy Laboratory Section as well as the capstone course, Clinical Reasoning II.   Her preparation for teaching in these areas includes a doctoral degree from Boston University, Sargent College in the area of Pediatric Therapeutic Studies with a specialization in the early development of motor control.

Dr. Kahn-D’Angelo has also studied neuroanatomy and neurophysiology at Dartmouth Medical School in the Physiology Department.  She has participated in and organized grant-funded continuing education and Early Intervention training courses.  She has published numerous articles and has served as an abstractor and book reviewer for the APTA.  She has published several chapters on pediatric physical therapy including one on Physical Therapy in the Special Care Nursery in Physical Therapy for Children.  Dr. Kahn-D’Angelo is a member of the Editorial Board of Physical and Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics, a peer-reviewed journal.

Dr. Kahn-D’Angelo recently presented to four area hospitals on Physical Therapy in the Special Care Nursery and is currently a volunteer infant cuddler and does orientation of new cuddlers at Lawrence General Hospital.  She has worked clinically in a local Early Intervention Program and a local Visiting Nurses’ Association.