Researcher, physical therapist
Dr. Joel Fundaun, PT, DPT, PhD, is a physical therapist and researcher specializing in chronic pain, with a focus on nerve injuries and neuropathic pain. He completed his Doctor of Physical Therapy at Regis University and his orthopaedic physical therapy residency at Northwestern University-Shirley Ryan AbilityLab. He earned his PhD in Clinical Neurosciences from the University of Oxford with Prof Annina Schmid and is now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University. He also works clinically as a physical therapist at Stanford's Pain Management Center. His research combines clinical phenotyping, quantitative neuroimaging, and human biosamples to advance the understanding, diagnosis, and management of chronic pain conditions