Bruce Greenfield PhD
Academic Appointment
- Professor, Rehabilitation Medicine, Division of Physical Therapy, Emory University, Atlanta
- Affiliated Faculty, Center for Health Law & Ethics - Certificate Program: Disability, Health and Culture, Emory University, Atlanta
- Assistant Director and Chair of the Admissions Committee, Rehabilitation Medicine, Division of Physical Therapy, Emory University, Atlanta
Education
Degrees
- MA from Loyola University Chicago, Chicago
- Certificate - Master Teacher Program from Emory University, Atlanta
- Certificate - Master Teacher Program from Georgia State University, Atlanta
- PhD from Georgia State University, Atlanta
- MMSc from Emory University, Atlanta
- Certificate - Physical Therapy from Emory University, Atlanta
- BA from Oglethorpe University, Atlanta
Research
Focus
- My scholarship focuses on strategies to improve patient - centered care. Specifically, I have developed an ethics of care based on phenomenology that contains practical steps to help clinicians to understand the values and concerns of a patient living with disabilities as those values emerge and change over time
Publications
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Can Reading Tolstoy Make Us Better Physical Therapists? The Role of the Health Humanities in Physical Therapy.
Phys Ther Volume: 100 Page(s): 885 - 889
06/23/2020 Authors: Blanton S; Greenfield BH; Jensen GM; Swisher LL; Kirsch NR; Davis C; Purtilo R -
Clinical narratives in residency education: Exploration of the learning process.
Physiother Theory Pract Volume: 35 Page(s): 1202 - 1217
12/01/2019 Authors: Furze JA; Greenfield BH; Barr JB; Geist K; Gale J; Jensen GM -
Education Research in Physical Therapy: Visions of the Possible.
Phys Ther Volume: 96 Page(s): 1874 - 1884
12/01/2016 Authors: Jensen GM; Nordstrom T; Segal RL; McCallum C; Graham C; Greenfield B -
Ethical Challenges of Health Care Professionals Who Provide Care for Athletes in Team Sports
PM&R Volume: 7 Page(s): 1091 - 1092
10/01/2015 Authors: Greenfield BH -
The Team Physician: Ethical and Legal Issues.
PM R Volume: 7 Page(s): 1089 - 1094
10/01/2015 Authors: Blauwet C; Greenfield BH; Ham EL; Spill G; Mukherjee D -
Power and promise of narrative for advancing physical therapist education and practice.
Phys Ther Volume: 95 Page(s): 924 - 933
06/01/2015 Authors: Greenfield BH; Jensen GM; Delany CM; Mostrom E; Knab M; Jampel A -
Exploring the experiences of novice clinical instructors in physical therapy clinical education: a phenomenological study.
Physiotherapy Volume: 100 Page(s): 349 - 355
12/01/2014 Authors: Greenfield BH; Bridges PH; Phillips TA; Drill AN; Gaydosik CD; Krishnan A; Yandziak HJ -
Ethical issues in sports medicine: a review and justification for ethical decision making and reasoning.
Sports Health Volume: 4 Page(s): 475 - 479
11/01/2012 Authors: Greenfield BH; West CR -
Phenomenology as a philosophical orientation for understanding the transformative experience of disabling illness.
Top Stroke Rehabil Volume: 18 Page(s): 35 - 39
01/01/2011 Authors: Greenfield B -
Understanding the lived experiences of patients: application of a phenomenological approach to ethics.
Phys Ther Volume: 90 Page(s): 1185 - 1197
08/01/2010 Authors: Greenfield BH; Jensen GM