Dr. Teresa Bisson, PT, DPT, ATP, NCS

Dr. Bisson is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Physical Therapy at the University of Minnesota, teaching Neurorehabilitation and Clinical Integration.  She is a Michigan native and graduate of Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. 

She moved to California after PT school and spent most of her 13 years on the west coast as a staff physical therapist at Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center. Dr. Bisson began her teaching career as an adjunct professor at Mount Saint Mary’s University in Los Angeles in 2008. She relocated to the Twin Cities in 2014 to join the core faculty at the University of Minnesota.

She has been a certified Neurologic Clinical Specialist through the American Physical Therapy Association since 2008 and earned her transitional DPT from Western University of Health Sciences in 2015. She considers herself a “generalized specialist” in the area of neurologic physical therapy, with particular expertise in working with individuals who have experienced a stroke, TBI, SCI, or multiple sclerosis. 

Her research interests include dosing of interventions for optimal outcomes in patients with chronic neurologic conditions, motor control and motor learning, and assessment and treatment of impaired selective voluntary motor control after upper motor neuron injury.

Dr. Bisson also has a passion for serving and improving access to healthcare services for all people, especially those in low-resource settings both here at home and internationally.