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David Vaillancourt is a Professor in the Department of Applied Physiology and Kinesiology at the University of Florida. He holds appointments in Neurology and Biomedical Engineering. He co-founded the Laboratory for Rehabilitation Neuroscience in 2011, focusing on motor control, brain imaging, and movement disorders. His work integrates behavioral recordings, fMRI, MRI, and EEG to study neurological disorders. NIH has continuously funded his lab since 1999, and he serves on multiple NIH study sections.
Education: Ph.D. in Motor Control/Gerontology (Penn State, 2001), M.S. in Motor Control (Penn State, 1999), B.S. in Kinesiology/Mathematics (Texas A&M, 1997).
Research interests include rehabilitative/surgical/pharmacological interventions for neurological disorders, longitudinal brain changes in Parkinson’s disease (PD), functional/structural brain deficits in movement disorders, and neural mechanisms linking visual input to motor performance. His lab employs advanced neuroimaging techniques to study the basal ganglia, cerebellum, and cortex in both healthy individuals and those with movement disorders.
Grants and Funding: Continuous NIH funding since 1999. His work bridges clinical neuroscience, imaging, and rehabilitation. Collaborates internationally on Parkinsonism diagnostics and neurodegenerative biomarkers.
Labs/Teams: Director of the Laboratory for Rehabilitation Neuroscience, which develops multimodal imaging tools for neurological disorder assessment.
