Do Lee PhD

Dr. Do Kyeong Lee joined the faculty of the Department of Kinesiology in 2016. She received a bachelor’s degree in Physical Education in S. Korea. She then moved to the U.S. to pursue an M.S. degree in Kinesiology at California State University, Northridge, where I specialized in adapted physical activity. Dr. Lee earned a Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, where she developed an evidence-based intervention for infants with myelomeningocele to test the extent of plasticity in the peripheral nervous system. She showed that a one-year home-based intervention enhances functional behaviors (e.g., treadmill stepping, acquisition of locomotor milestones), and also underlying physiological mechanisms including bone mineral content, spinal-level reflex integrity, and muscle strength. Throughout her graduate work, her research has provided a better understanding of locomotor development during infancy and the concurrent plasticity of subsystems contributing to these behavioral outcomes.