Dennis E. Anderson, PhD
Dr. Anderson received his Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech in 2010, studying musculoskeletal biomechanics with a focus on aging and gait. He then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Advanced Orthopaedic Studies at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. He is currently appointed as Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School. His interests lie in understanding musculoskeletal motion and loading, age-related musculoskeletal changes and conditions, spine motion and loading in health and disease, and clinical translation of musculoskeletal biomechanics. In pursuit of these goals, he has developed novel musculoskeletal modeling approaches to enable in vivo evaluations of spine motion and loading, and established a motion analysis laboratory at BIDMC. These developments form the basis for ongoing research projects in the Anderson Lab.
Seyed Javad Mousavi, PT, PhD
Dr. Mousavi received his Ph.D. in Physical Therapy from Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 2008, studying the effects of back pain and complex tracking tasks on trunk neuromuscular performance. He was then awarded “The University of Sydney International Postdoctoral fellowship” to work on trunk motor control and back pain by developing a novel motion tracking system. He then joined Dr. Anderson’s lab in 2016 to pursue his postdoctoral research career in aging and spine motion and biomechanics, and his recent efforts include studying the effects of spine decompression surgery on spine and walking biomechanics in patients with symptomatic lumbar spinal stenosis. In 2022 he was promoted to Instructor at Harvard Medical School.