Campbell, Suzann K.

Suzann K. Campbell, PT, PhD, FAPTA, is Professor Emerita and former Head, Department of Physical Therapy, at the University of Illinois at Chicago.  She was the founding editor of Physical Therapy for Children and has published more than 60 peer-reviewed articles (11 from 2013-2018).  Her group's NIH-funded research on assessment of infants with movement disorders resulted in publication of the Test of Infant Motor Performance (TIMP), a functional motor scale for newborns that was normed on 990 U.S. infants and is used in more than 40 countries.  The TIMP has been translated into Chinese, French, Portuguese, and Spanish. Dr. Campbell currently is Managing Partner of Infant Motor Performance Scales, LLC, a publishing and education group, which offers an e-Learning course for health professionals interested in learning the TIMP. Dr. Campbell’s work in pediatric physical therapy has been honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine, the Jonas Salk Award for Leadership in Research from the March of Dimes, and numerous awards from the American Physical Therapy Association, including the Mary McMillan Lecture Award and the Marion Williams Award for Research. She has more than 40 years’ experience conducting continuing education courses.