Angela Rose Spontelli Gisselman

Angela Spontelli Gisselman PT, PhD, DPT, is an Associate Professor and Director of Admissions at Tufts University's DPT Program in Phoenix, AZ. She received her BS degree kinesiology from Miami University and DPT from Duke University. She completed an orthopedic clinical residency at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and is an ABPTS-certified Orthopedic Physical Therapy Specialist. She earned her PhD in Physiotherapy from the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. Her primary area of scholarship focuses on the role of health metrics, such as heart rate variability (an index of the autonomic nervous system, ANS), in understanding the physiological burden of disease, injury, or stressors on the ANS. Other areas of research interest include the developing cultural safety in DPT education, musculoskeletal injury risk and rehabilitation, and mechanisms of manual therapy. She has national conference speaking experience and over 25 peer-reviewed publications.