Rate My Professor Richard Shields

Shields has authored over 200 publications with more than 5,000 citations, significantly impacting rehabilitation science. Key works include "Muscle and bone plasticity after spinal cord injury: review of adaptations to disuse and to electrical muscle stimulation" (Dudley-Javoroski and Shields, Gait & Posture, 2008), "Musculoskeletal plasticity after acute spinal cord injury: effects of long-term neuromuscular electrical stimulation training" (Shields and Dudley-Javoroski, Journal of Applied Physiology, 2006), "Muscular, skeletal, and neural adaptations following spinal cord injury" (Shields, Journal of Applied Physiology, 2002), "Low frequency depression of H-reflexes in humans with acute and chronic spinal-cord injury" (Schindler-Ivens and Shields, Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 2000), and "Turning Over the Hourglass" (Shields, Physical Therapy, 2017). In 2017, he delivered the 48th Mary McMillan Lecture at the American Physical Therapy Association NEXT Conference, the highest honor recognizing excellence in administration, education, research, patient care, and management. Other distinctions include the Gary L. Soderberg Professorship (2019), John H.P. Maley Award for Outstanding Contributions to Leadership in Research (2012), and contributions to national benchmarks for Doctor of Physical Therapy education and psychometric analysis of clinical evaluation tools.