Department of Physical Therapy - Andrew Meszaros, P.T., Ph.D. - Bio
andrew.meszaros@utoledo.eduOffice - 419.383.3508
Lab - 419.530.4149 (Room 1700 HHS)
Fax - 419.383.5880
Dr. Meszaros has a dual appointment in UT's Department of Physical Therapy and Department of Kinesiology. He earned a PhD in
Exercise Science from the University of Iowa under the direction of
Rich Shields, PT, PhD. He then served a one-year NIH-NIA post-doctoral fellowship in the
University of Iowa Injury Prevention Research Center under
Tom Cook, PhD. He is a recipient of the American Physical Therapy Association's Marylou Barnes Award and Mary McMillan Award. Prior to his arrival at The University of Toledo in 2005, he taught in the School of Medicine at West Virginia University (
Physical Therapy;
Exercise Physiology).
Dr. Meszaros' laboratory examines how the development and persistence of local exercise-induced muscle fatigue ("metabolic low-frequency fatigue") impacts certain types of neurologic reflexes and brain motor programs. The research is broadly applicable to injury prevention and therapeutic exercise intervention. This line of inquiry is oriented toward systems neurobiology to include an examination of neuromuscular synergies and the interactions that exist between sensory input and motor output during movement. Meszaros is a member of UT's
Engineering Center for Orthopaedic Research Excellence (ECore). Collaborators at the University of Toledo include Dr. Catherine Quatman (Department of Physical Therapy), Dr. Charles Armstrong (
Department of Kinesiology), Dr. Richard Yeasting (
Department of Anatomy & Neuroscience), and
Dr. Vijay Goel (
Department of Bioengineering). Meszaros is a manuscript reviewer for several scientific journals including
Journal of Applied Physiology,
American Journal of Physiology,
Journal of Orthopedic and Sports Physical Therapy, and
Sports Biomechanics. He is a member of
The American Physiological Society,
The Society for Neuroscience, and
The American Society of Biomechanics. He is also a member of the
Polanyi Society and was recently awarded a
Russell Kirk Fellowship (collaborator:
Charles E. Rice, Professor Emeritus, Notre Dame Law School).
In the Physical Therapy DPT curriculum, Dr. Meszaros is the coordinator of anatomic studies (PhyT500 Gross Anatomy; PhyT505 Analysis of Movement I; PhyT507 Neuroscience). He also teaches courses involving neuromuscular physiology and kinesiology (PhyT508 Neuroscience Seminar; PhyT506 Analysis of Movement II).
