By Cristina D’Imperio
Anthony Delitto, PhD, PT, FAPTA, McGowan affiliated faculty and Dean of the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, has been recognized by the University of Buffalo (UB) with a Distinguished Alumni Award.
The UB Distinguished Alumni Award celebrates outstanding professional accomplishments, including research and scholarly activity, as well as university and community service.
Dr. Delitto, who earned his BS in physical therapy from SUNY-Buffalo in 1979, was a member of the recently convened Chronic Low Back Pain Task Force at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and has been a member of the National Advisory Board for Medical Rehabilitation Research since 2015.
At Pitt, he has expanded the health and rehabilitation sciences doctoral program. As a result, U.S. News & World Report has ranked the university’s physical therapy doctoral program as #1 in the nation.
Currently, Dr. Delitto is conducting trials in exercise interventions for people with Parkinson’s disease and has authored or co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles. He actively treats people with painful musculoskeletal disorders, and his current research is focused on implementing classification and treatment effectiveness studies into quality improvement initiatives.
Dr. Delitto is also a Catherine Worthingham Fellow of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) and has received numerous awards and recognitions from APTA, including the Mary McMillan (2008) and the John HP Maley Lecture Awards, the Lucy Blair Service Award, the Marion Williams Award for Research, and the Helen J. Hislop Award for Outstanding Contributions to Professional Literature. He is a seven-time winner of the Orthopaedic Section, APTA’s Steven J. Rose Award for Excellence in Clinical Research.
The UB Alumni Association will present its Distinguished Alumni Award to Dr. Delitto on October 12, 2023, during the university’s Homecoming and Family Weekend.
Read more about UB’s Alumni Achievement Awards here.
Find out more about Dr. Delitto’s research here.