Dr. Chad Cook is an internationally acclaimed expert in differential diagnosis. He is a clinical researcher, physical therapist, and profession advocate with a long-term history of clinical care excellence and service and 19 years of academic experience.
Want to be the best? If you’re ready to learn from the best, then you’ve come to the right place. Dr. Cook is a professor at Duke University with a Category A appointment in the Duke Clinical Research Institute and an adjunct appointment in the Department of Population Health Sciences.
He has published well over 190 peer-reviewed papers, has three textbooks in their 2nd edition, and has presented internationally at over 145 presentations/conferences. Dr. Cook has won numerous research and teaching awards and was one of Medbridge's first instructors.
Education and Credentials
Dr. Cook received his BS in physical therapy from Maryville University (St. Louis) in 1990 and his PhD from Texas Tech University in 2003. He received fellowship status at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapists in 2006. He is a Catherine Worthingham Fellow of the American Physical Therapy Association.
Dr. Cook has a long-standing history of service roles as an editor in chief or associate/special topics editor for multiple journals, including JOSPT and BJSM.
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Awards and Recognition
Dr. Cook has won numerous awards locally at Duke for teaching, is the 2009 Baethke-Carlin award winner for the American Physical Therapy Association, is the 2008 recipient of the Helen Bradley Career Achievement Award, and is the 2005 winner of the J. Warren Perry Distinguished Authorship Award. Dr. Cook was the Pauline Cerasoli lecturer in 2017 and received the John McMillan Mennell Career Award for Service from AAOMPT in 2021. In addition, Dr. Cook is the 2011 winner and the 2012 and 2013 cowinner of the AAOMPT Excellence in Research Award. Dr. Cook has also been awarded the APTA Helen J.
Contributions to Physical Therapy
His passions include refining and improving the patient examination process and validating tools used in day-to-day physical therapist practice. He has authored or co-authored three textbooks, including the influential Orthopedic Physical Examination Tests: An Evidence-Based Approach, has published over 315 peer-reviewed manuscripts, and has received or currently has funding with the NIH, Department of Defense, and the VA. He lectures internationally on orthopedic examination, manual therapy, and treatment and is currently the Director of Research Facilitation at the Department of Orthopaedics and the Director of the Center for Excellence in Manual and Manipulative Therapy at Duke University in the United States.
Key Areas of Focus:
- Optimizing the patient experience
- Engagement-based care and where does pain neuroscience fit within that
- Lab on utilizing strategies on managing pain behaviors
- Pain Phenotypes
- Contextual factors- what is it and what does it mean (including patient experience)
- What does “evidence-based care” look like
- Precision medicine - myth or goal?
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Dr. Cook's Perspective
As a clinician who had the opportunity to build novel experiences at the clinic in which I was employed, I felt compelled to share the information. The love of learning and sharing knowledge transferred to academic roles. Small opportunities expanded to those I have today. Ironically, the most rewarding piece of being an instructor is the preparation phase. I love creating the information and deciding the best way to present it.
Most Rewarding Part of Being a Therapist:
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To me, the most rewarding thing about being a physical therapist is that the essence of what we do in research, either indirectly or directly, influences the patient. Our research matters.
Collaboration with Medbridge
I love the sophistication that Medbridge brings to my presentations. I love that they have opened doors to learners from all over the world and that these learners can contact me directly to discuss topics. I love that Medbridge is never satisfied with the status quo and that they are always innovating to make the therapy experience better, for clinicians and patients. I also dig the Northwestern vibe that the business has. It's a company that is cool, mellow, and always ahead of the curve.
In the past two years, I've been invited to speak in multiple countries and at many different venues. There are a myriad of reasons I was invited, but a common thread among my trips is the percentage of individuals who have taken my Medbridge courses. Even non-English speaking learners have flocked to the Medbridge courses because these provide a global access that is not normally reachable.
A Memorable Moment
My teaching mentor was Phil Sizer, PhD, PT, a professor at Texas Tech University, where I earned my doctorate. Dr. Sizer is a gifted speaker and one of the most passionate educators Ive had the opportunity to meet. Texas Tech had three campuses, so my exposure to Dr. Sizer as a teacher was usually at a distance - watching him present over a wall monitor. He was a consummate professional: well prepared, scripted, and deliberate. One day, he gave a lecture immediately after a complex dental procedure, in which he received fairly robust pain medication, and provided one of the most uninhibited and entertaining lectures I've ever encountered. He let his guard down and presented as a regular person (most of us were under the impression that Dr. Sizer was actually a computer). I knew then that when one provides knowledge, entertainment, and approachability, one has reached the triple whammy in teaching success.
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