Stacy Carmel

Dr. Carmel has more than 14 years in full-time physical therapy practice and nineteen years teaching in physical therapy higher education. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Physical Therapy from the University of Mississippi Medical Center in 1997 and completed her post-professional Doctor of Physical Therapy from Western University in California in 2010. Dr. Carmel earned her Doctorate in Education from the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences in Florida in 2020.

Dr. Carmel’s physical therapy practice experience includes out-patient orthopaedics, wound intervention, inpatient oncology and acute care practice. Dr. Carmel has a research interest and has been invited to present research in physical therapist and physical therapist assistant intra-professional practice, DPT student interprofessional practice, and pandemic teaching practices. Dr. Carmel’s present scholarship agenda includes physical therapy clinical education, clinical instructor teaching effectiveness, and the effects of student mentoring on clinical instructor burnout. In addition to her experience educating students in the clinical setting, Dr. Carmel teaches and facilitates clinical educational learning experiences.