Cole Galloway, PT, PhD, FAPTA

Cole Galloway, PT, PhD, FAPTA, serves as Clinical Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy in Baylor University's Robbins College of Health and Human Sciences.

Cole’s “blue collar futurist” approach guides his interdisciplinary collaborative work. His personal interests in family, social justice and expression through the arts mix effortlessly with his professional background of rehabilitation, neuroscience, child development, human-machine interaction and open-source culture. His research and prototype development work—focused on the key role of social mobility in life—serves to directly challenge the out-of-date culture of pediatric and adult rehabilitation with a highly hopeful set of alternative products and processes. Through the Go Baby Go collective—research, education and advocacy movement—he invents and studies devices for children and adults with severe mobility issues. His approach of combining high tech and low tech into “go tech” has garnered the interest, funding, and awards from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Department of Education, and a range of tech industries from medical to toy to auto.

Current Research Interests:

• Pediatric neuro-rehabilitation birth to 5 years old with emphasis on the impact of community mobility technologies on child development.
• Adult neuro-rehabilitation with an emphasis on the impact of community mobility technologies cognition, language and socialization.
• Research and Development of community mobility technologies for high dose human-machine interfacing within enriched environments.