Dr. Sam Nemanich

Dr. Nemanich earned his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering in 2010 from the Illinois Institute of Technology. Following a 2-year research assistant position, he was accepted into the Movement Science PhD program in the Program in Physical Therapy at Washington University in St. Louis. Under the mentorship of Dr. Gammon Earhart, he studied gait and movement control in people with Parkinson’s disease in pursuit of a PhD. During this time, he also completed a 2-year translational science predoctoral training fellowship and a Master’s degree in Clinical Investigation (MSCI). Following his PhD, Dr. Nemanich began a postdoctoral research position in the lab of Dr. Bernadette Gillick at the University of Minnesota. Here, he trained using neuroimaging and non-invasive brain stimulation techniques to study the brain and movement control. It was during this research position that Dr. Nemanich also fostered his interests in child motor development through studies of children with cerebral palsy due to stroke early in life. His work as a postdoctoral researcher contributed to some of the first studies to use non-invasive neuromodulation in children and infants with stroke. This postdoctoral position was capped off by a 1 year NIH StrokeNet postdoctoral fellowship. Dr. Nemanich joined the Marquette OT faculty in June 2020.

When he is not studying the brain, Dr. Nemanich loves to cook and go on adventures with his spouse Sarah and two children Theodore and Lucille.