Amy Martha Pastva

Dr. Amy M. Pastva, PT, MA, PhD, is a rehabilitation scientist whose research focuses on redefining rehabilitation for aging and medically complex populations. Her work integrates large-scale pragmatic clinical trials with implementation in real-world health systems and the development of a pipeline of clinician-scientists to sustain this impact.

Through leadership in federally funded trials, including REHAB-HF, REHAB-HFpEF, and REMM-HIIT-COVID, she has advanced scalable, multidomain rehabilitation models that are influencing how care is delivered across the acute-to-post-acute continuum and in both in-person and tele-rehabilitation settings. Collectively, her work is shaping both the evidence base and the workforce needed to transform rehabilitation for complex populations.

Dr. Pastva is Director of Research in the Division of Physical Therapy at Duke University School of Medicine. She is a Senior Fellow in the Duke Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, a Scholar in the Duke Pepper Older Americans Independence Center (OAIC), and Co-Lead of the Center’s Health and Mobility Measures Core. She also serves as an advisor in Duke Health’s Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Physical Therapy Residency Program and is an Editorial Board member for Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Journal.