Emmanuel B. John, PT, DPT, PhD, MPH, MBA, FAHA President IANPT (2023-2026)
Emmanuel B. John, PT, DPT, PhD, MPH, MBA, FAHA, FIMC, has been elected President of the International Association of Nigerian Physical Therapists (IANPT). John was elected at the 3rd annual meeting of IANPT which held in Philadelphia, PA, USA from July 13-15, 2023 for a three year term, 2023-2026. The IANPT is a professional organization of Physical Therapists of Nigerian ancestry who currently reside in North America (United States and Canada).
John is Professor and Dean, Dr. Donald E. and Lois J. Myers School of Nursing and Health Professions at the York College of Pennsylvania, York, PA, United States, and a Visiting Professor to Chrisland University, Abeokuta, Nigeria. Until recently, from 2015-2022, he was Chair and Associate Professor of the Department of Physical Therapy at Chapman University in Irvine, California. Prior to that, he served as Associate Professor and Director of Research for the School of Physical Therapy at Touro University Nevada, and as an Associate Professor at Radford University in Roanoke, VA. In addition, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy at Howard University in Washington, D.C., where he also served as Director of the Motor Control and Neuromuscular Performance Laboratory.
John serves or had served in leadership roles for several professional organizations, including as secretary and a member of the Executive Committee and Board of Directors for the American Council on Academic Physical Therapy (2018-2022). He is also a member of the American Physical Therapy Association, Nigeria Society of physiotherapy and Executive Director of the Nigeria Physiotherapy Network. John was recently appointed as a Board member of the Memorial Health Fund, under the auspices of the York County Community Foundation, and Board member, UPMC York, PA Hospital Advisory Board. He also recently started his tenure as an Editorial Board member of the Journals of the American Heart Association.
John earned a bachelor’s degree in physiotherapy from the College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Nigeria; a Ph.D. in rehabilitation science from the University of Kansas Medical Center; a Doctor of Physical Therapy from Alabama State University, Montgomery; an MBA from Louisiana State University, Shreveport; and a Master of Public Health from Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA. He is a Fellow of the American Heart Association and a Credentialed Fellowship Graduate of the American Physical Therapy Association’s Educational Leadership Institute.
His research spans four areas: the effects of age, gender, and neurological lesions on the sense of motor effort; the effects of virtual reality rehabilitation and robotic rehabilitation interventions on the sense of motor efforts; the effects of discharge destinations and socioeconomic factors on motor function recovery after stroke; and the impact of brain-drain on physical therapy education in developing countries.
