Marjorie H. Woollacott, Ph.D.

Motor Control Department of Exercise and Movement Science (EMS), University of Oregon Office Location: 348B Gerlinger Phone: (541) 346-4144 Email: mwool@oregon.uoregon.edu Personal Website in the Institute of Neuroscience

Marjorie Woollacott has been director of the Motor Control Laboratory at the University of Oregon since 1980. Her areas of expertise include the development of balance control in normal children and in children with motor problems such as cerebral palsy and Down's syndrome. She is also exploring the factors leading to loss of balance function in the older adult. She is currently designing new assessment and treatment strategies to improve balance function in both the child with motor problems and the older adult who is prone to losses of balance and falls. Dr. Woollacott has been with the University of Oregon since 1980 where, in addition to her work in the Department of Exercise and Movement Science, she has been a participating faculty member in gerontology, psychology, and neuroscience. Prior to her return to the University of Oregon following a research associate position in the early 1970s, she laid ground for her professorial career in the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, the University of Oregon School of Medicine, Reed College, and the Neurological Science Institute in Portland. A seasoned researcher and academician, Woollacott has received many honors, among them fellowships into the research consortium of AAHPERD and into the American Academy of Physical Education. She is reviewer and coeditor of many science magazines and is presently the vice president of the International Society for Posture and Gait Research. Education Ph.D. -- Neurophysiology, 1973 University of Southern California, L.A., CA B.A. -- Music, 1968 University of Southern California, L.A., CA Professional Organizations Society for Neuroscience International Society for Posture and Gait Research American Gerontology Society Society for Research on Child Development AAHPERD North American Association for Sport and Physical Activity International Brain Research Organization Professional Service President, International Society for Posture and Gait Research, 1992-1995 Organization of symposia and conferences relative to motor control research Grant reviewer for the National Institutes for Health Volunteer staff and assisting editor for the nonprofit meditation organization SYDA and their journal, Darshan. Publications and Presentations Dr. Woollacott has received fourteen laboratory grant awards as principal or co-investigator totaling more than $2.1 million. She has published two books on posture and gait, is editor of complete issues of the journals Topics in Geriatrics Rehabilitation (vol 5, no 2) and Darshan (in press) respectively, and has more than forty articles and book chapters to her name. Topics include normal development of posture/balance control, aging and balance control, general posture/balance control, and postural control and rehabilitation.