Dr. Stephanie Hiser has been a faculty member of the George Washington University Doctor of Physical Therapy Program since August 2022 with the title of Assistant Professor. Her primary teaching responsibilities include Clinical Conference I, Foundations of Interventions, Clinical Medicine and Pharmacology, and Cardiopulmonary Dysfunction. Prior to joining GW, Dr. Hiser completed an Acute Care Residency with The Johns Hopkins Hospital and University of Delaware, a Critical Care Fellowship with Johns Hopkins Hospital, and earned a board-certified cardiovascular and pulmonary specialty (CCS) in 2019.
Dr. Hiser’s overall research goal is to improve outcomes among survivors of critical illness through early rehabilitation interventions in the intensive care unit (ICU) setting. She does this by investigating psychometric properties of outcome measures and early rehabilitation prescription. Her current research is exploring the “dosage” of early rehabilitation delivered in the ICU setting. She has published several peer-reviewed articles and presented nationally/internationally at conferences.
- Hiser S, Fatima A, Ali M, Needham D. Post-intensive care syndrome (PICS): Recent updates. J Intensive Care. 2023. [In press]
- Hiser S, Urbanek J, Young D, McLaughlin K, Colantuoni E, Brotman D, Needham D, Hoyer E. Improving patient selection for use of consumer grade physical activity monitors in the hospital. Brazilian Journal of Physical Therapy. 2022. [In press]
- González-Seguel F, Camus-Molina A, Cárcamo M, Hiser S, Needham D, Leppe J. Inter-observer reliability of trained physiotherapists on the Functional Status Score for the Intensive Care Unit (FSS-ICU) Chilean-Spanish version. Physiother Theory and Pract. 2022; 38(2):365-371. PMID: 32316800
- Hiser S, Toonstra A, Mantheiy, E, Friedman LA, Ramsay P, Needham D. Physical Therapists’ Perspectives on Using Physical Function Measures in the Intensive Care Unit: A Mixed-Methods Study. Physiother Can. 2021 [In press]
- Hiser S, Chung, C, Toonstra A, Friedman LA, Colantuoni E, Hoyer E, Needham D. Inter-rater Reliability of the Johns Hopkins Highest Level of Mobility Scale (JH-HLM) in the Intensive Care Unit. Brazilian Journal of Physical Therapy. 2021;25(3):352-355. PMID: 32811787
- Hiser S, Toonstra A, Friedman LA, Colantuoni E, Needham D. Inter-rater reliability of AM-PAC “6-Clicks” Inpatient Mobility Short Form in the Intensive Care Unit. Physiother Res Int. 2020; 25(4):e1849. PMID: 32449321
- Kahraman BO, Ozsoy, I, Kahraman T, Tanriverdi A, Acar S, Ozpelit E, Akdeniz B, Hiser S, Guimaraes FS, Needham DM, Savci S. Turkish translation, cross-cultural adaptation, and assessment of psychometric properties of the Functional Status Score for the Intensive Care Unit. Disabil Rehabil. 2020; 42(21):3092-3097. PMID: 31020855
- Hiser S, Toonstra A, Friedman LA, Colantuoni E, Connolly B, Needham D. Inter-rater reliability of the Functional Status Score for the Intensive Care Unit. J Acute Care Phys Ther. 2018; 9(4): 186-192.
- Klein LM, Young DL, Lavezza A, Hiser S, Feng D, Hoyer EH. Increasing patient mobility through an individualized goal-centered hospital mobility program: a Quasi-Experimental Quality Improvement Project. Nurs Outlook. 2018; 66(3): 254-262. PMID: 29705382
- Hoyer E, Young D, Klein L, Kreif J, Shumock K, Hiser S, Friedman M, Lavezza A, Jette A, Chan K, Needham D. Toward a Common Language for Measuring Patient Mobility in the Hospital Reliability & Construct Validity of Interprofessional Mobility Measures. Phys Ther. 2018;98:133-142. PMID: 29106679