Judith M. Burnfield, PT, Ph.D., is a nationally recognized physical rehabilitation clinician, researcher and scholar. Burnfield is the vice president of research, director of the Institute for Rehabilitation Science and Engineering, and Clifton Chair in Physical Therapy and Movement Science at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospitals. She completed her BS in physical therapy at the State University of New York at Buffalo, her Ph.D. in Biokinesiology at the University of Southern California, and her postdoctoral studies at the Los Amigos Research and Education Institute in California. Burnfield draws on over three decades of physical rehabilitation clinical and research experience to direct Madonna Rehabilitation Hospitals’ model system of rehabilitation care for patients post-COVID-19. She serves as an advisor for a multi-center study funded by the National Association of Long-Term Hospitals (NALTH) examining rehabilitation outcomes following post-COVID-19 care in long-term acute care hospitals and as the Madonna site-PI for an NIH-funded study focused on the neurologic consequences of COVID-19.