andrew.meszaros (AT) utoledo.edu
Office - 419.383.3508
Lab - 419.530.4149 (Room 1700 HHS)
Fax - 419.383.5880
Dr. Meszaros has a dual appointment in UT's Department of Physical Therapy and Department of Kinesiology. He earned his PhD in Exercise Science from the University of Iowa under the direction of Rich Shields, PT, PhD. He then served a one-year NIH-NIA post-doctoral fellowship in the University of Iowa Injury Prevention Research Center under Tom Cook, PhD.
He is a recipient of the American Physical Therapy Association's
Marylou Barnes Award and Mary McMillan Award. Prior to his
arrival at The University of Toledo in 2005, he taught in the School of
Medicine at West Virginia University (Physical Therapy; Exercise Physiology).
Dr.
Meszaros' laboratory examines how the development and persistence of
local exercise-induced muscle fatigue ("metabolic low-frequency
fatigue") impacts certain types of neurologic reflexes and brain motor
programs. The research has broad applicability to injury
prevention and therapeutic exercise intervention. This line of
inquiry is oriented toward systems neurobiology to include an
examination of neuromuscular synergies and the interactions
that exist between sensory input and motor output during movement.
Meszaros is a member of UT's Engineering Center for Orthopaedic Research Excellence (ECore).
Collaborators at the University of Toledo include Dr. Catherine
Quatman (Department of Physical Therapy), Dr. Charles Armstrong (Department of Kinesiology), Dr. Richard Yeasting (Department of Anatomy & Neuroscience), and Dr. Vijay Goel (Department of Bioengineering). Meszaros is a manuscript reviewer for several scientific journals including Journal of Applied Physiology, American Journal of Physiology, Journal of Orthopedic and Sports Physical Therapy, and Sports Biomechanics. He is a member of The American Physiological Society, The Society for Neuroscience, and The American College of Sports Medicine. He is also a member of the Polanyi Society and was recently awarded a Russell Kirk Fellowship (collaborator: Dr. Charles Rice, Professor Emeritus, Notre Dame Law School).
In
the Physical Therapy DPT curriculum, Dr. Meszaros is the coordinator of
anatomic studies (PhyT500 Gross Anatomy; PhyT505
Analysis of Movement I; PhyT507 Neuroscience).
He also teaches basic science courses involving neuromuscular
physiology and kinesiology (PhyT508 Neuroscience Seminar; PhyT506 Analysis of Movement II).