Chad E. Cook MBA, PhD, PT, FAAOMPT

Chad Cook, PT, PhD, MBA, FAAOMPT is a professor at Duke University, clinical researcher, physical therapist, and profession advocate with a long-term history of clinical care excellence and service. His passions include refining and improving the patient examination process and validating tools used in day-to-day physical therapist practice. He received his BS in Physical Therapy from Maryville University in 1990 and his MBA (1999) and Ph.D. (2003) from Texas Tech University. Dr. Cook was certified as an orthopedic manual therapist in 2001, achieved APTA board-certified orthopedic specialization in 2002, and received fellowship status at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Manual Therapy in 2006.

Dr. Cook has published over 195 peer-reviewed papers and has two textbooks in their 2nd edition and a third textbook in its first edition. He is the senior associate editor for the British Journal of Sports Medicine and is the editor of a special topic for JOSPT. He is currently treasurer of AAOMPT. Dr. Cook has won numerous awards locally at Duke for teaching, is a recent winner of the top educator award for the American Physical Therapy Association, is the 2017 Pauline Cerasoli lecturer, is the 2008 recipient of the Helen Bradley career achievement award, and is the 2005 winner of the J Warren Perry Distinguished Authorship Award. In addition, Dr. Cook is also the 2011 winner and was the 2012 and 2013 co-winner of the AAOMPT Excellence in Research Award.