Stacia Troshynski Brown, PT, DPT

A clinical assistant professor at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Stacia Troshynski Brown, PT, DPT, has been on faculty in the Department of Physical Therapy, Rehabilitation Science, and Athletic Training since 2015. She practiced concurrently in an outpatient hospital-based orthopedic physical therapy setting for ten years and the acute care setting for seven years prior to transitioning to her academic role. Her interests in community health focus on violence prevention, hospital-based violence intervention programs, health care access, and community-based participatory research methods. These are skill sets she hopes to carry into healthcare education programs and training for future healthcare providers.

Troshynski Brown graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2003 with a bachelor’s degree in English and then obtained her doctorate in physical therapy from the University of Nebraska Medical Center in 2006. She became a board-certified specialist in orthopedic physical therapy in 2009. In 2017 she achieved recognition as a multiple sclerosis-certified specialist. She is currently pursuing her joint MPH-PhD at KU-Lawrence in the Department of Applied Behavior Science and serves as a graduate student in the Center of Community Health and Development.