Dr. Butler joined UAB in 2019 as the Dean of the School of Health Professions.
Butler received his Ph.D. in motor control from the University of Iowa. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Iowa, at Texas Women’s University in Houston and at Heinrich-Heine University in Dusseldorf, Germany. He has held positions at Georgia State University 2012-2019 and Emory University School of Medicine 2001-2012.
Butler has a special interest in neuro-rehabilitation, functional neuroimaging and tr...
Jennifer Braswell Christy, PT, PhD is Associate Professor and DPT Program Director at The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Dr. Christy also serves as the Assistant Dean of Faculty Affairs for the School of Health Professions. She served as the chair of the DPT Program Admissions Committee from 2007-2018 and became the DPT Program Director in May, 2018. Dr. Christy is the current Director of Research for the Academy of Pediatric Physical Therapy, and on the Nominating Committee for the ...
Dr. Butler joined UAB in 2019 as the Dean of the School of Health Professions.
Butler received his Ph.D. in motor control from the University of Iowa. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Iowa, at Texas Women’s University in Houston and at Heinrich-Heine University in Dusseldorf, Germany. He has held positions at Georgia State University 2012-2019 and Emory University School of Medicine 2001-2012.
Butler has a special interest in neuro-rehabilitation, functional neuroimaging and tr...
I retired from UAB in 2006 and currently live in Italy
My thesis involved the application of logistic regression to determine the factors which best predict students’ continued enrollment for a population of first-time, full-time freshmen enrolling in the summer and fall terms of 2007. The models tested fifteen factors across a four-year span and illuminated the statistically significant factors for predicting persistence of students at an urban, public, very high research activity, university. Utilizing Supplemental Instruction (SI) as an approach ...
