Maura Daly Iversen, DPT, D.Sc, MPH

Dean | College of Health & Wellness
Providence Campus

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Maura Daly Iversen is an accomplished higher education administrator, funded researcher and experienced clinician. As dean of the College of Health & Wellness, she supports academic programming that combines experiential learning to prepare students to lead in an evolving healthcare environment. She is responsible for oversight of numerous discipline-specific accreditations and growth of the newest college in the university. Iversen is a professor emeritus, Northeastern University, a senior lecturer in medicine at Harvard Medical School, and serves as a senior behavioral scientist and clinical epidemiologist in the Section of Clinical Sciences, Brigham & Women’s Hospital. She holds appointments as a foreign professor, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, and adjunct faculty, Heracleia Human Centered Laboratory, at the University of Texas.

Her research focuses on clinical trials of exercise, behavioral interventions to improve adherence to pharmacologic/nonpharmacologic therapies, technologies to promote physical activity in persons with arthritis and the creation of patient reported outcome measures and their translation in numerous languages.

Iversen was formerly associate dean of clinical education, rehabilitation, and new initiatives at Bouve College of Health Sciences, and director of the rehabilitation and epidemiology lab, Department of Physical Therapy, Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences at Northeastern University. She is the former Dean of the College of Health Professions at Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT.

Iversen is a Catherine Worthingham fellow of the American Physical Therapy Association, a U.S. Fulbright research scholar, and a distinguished scholar and fellow in the National Academies of Practice. She has been named a Distinguished Educator and Distinguished Scholar by the American College of Rheumatology and received the Ann Kunkel Service Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award from American College of Rheumatology. She is currently a Board of Directors member for American College of Rheumatology and for the Easterseals Massachusetts.

Her research focuses on clinical trials of exercise, behavioral interventions to improve adherence to pharmacologic/nonpharmacologic therapies, and technologies to promote physical activity in persons with arthritis.

Expertise:

• physical therapy; movement and rehabilitation sciences; arthritis; exercise science