School address:
K. Riland (NYCOM II), Room 347
Northern Boulevard
Old Westbury,
NY 11568-8000
Phone: 516.686.3939
Fax: 516.686.3854
Email: enwemeka@nyit.edu

 
Profile of the dean
 
Chukuka Enwemeka, PT, PhD, FACSM
(Professor & dean)
Dr. Enwemeka became dean of the School of Health Professions, Behavioral and Life Sciences on March 1, 2003. Before coming to NYIT, he served as Professor (with tenure) and Chairman of the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS from March 1993 to February 2003. From September 1989 to February 2003, he was Associate Professor of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, and Associate Director of Physical Therapy, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida. He held a joint appointment as Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy, Cellular and Structural Biology, and Physiology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas from 1986 to 1989, before joining the University of Miami.
  
 

Dr. Enwemeka received his B.S. and M.S. in physical therapy from the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria and the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, respectively. He earned his PhD in pathokinesiology from New York University (NYU), and did his post-doctoral research training at NYU’s Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine.

He has authored more than fifty-five original research papers, monographs, and book chapters, and has presented hundreds of papers, seminars, symposia, and workshops nationally and internationally. Worldwide, Dr. Enwemeka is one of the foremost authorities in the area of photoengineering of tissue repair process with visible and near infra-red light and lasers. He is the CoEditor-in-Chief of the international journal, Photomedicine and Laser Surgery, Past-Editor-in-Chief of another international journal, Laser Therapy, Past-President of the World Association for Laser Therapy (WALT), and past-chairman of the North American Association for Laser Therapy (NAALT).

As a distinguished researcher, Dr. Enwemeka served as board member and chairperson of the National Advisory Council on Medical Rehabilitation Research, National Institutes of Health, from 1998 to 2002. He is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and is listed among Who is Who in Science and Engineering, 1991. Dr. Enwemeka’s academic career has taken him to thirty-six countries and all but six of the 50 states in the union, either as a visiting professor, invited presenter, keynote speaker, visiting scholar, or as an invited guest of other universities.
 
Professor Enwemeka's Peer-reviewed publications and book chapters/monographs
  
     
     
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