Jane M. Eason, Ph.D., P.T.

Associate Professor

Dr. Eason received her B.S. in Physical Therapy from the Louisiana State University Medical Center in 1979 and earned an M.S. in Cardiac Rehabilitation from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge in 1983.

Following several years of employment as an Exercise Specialist in a Cardiac Rehabilitation program in South Carolina and as a Supervisor in the Critical Care Unit at the Maryland Emergency Medical Services in Baltimore, Maryland, she enrolled in the doctoral program in exercise physiology at the University of Florida and received her degree in 1996. Her research focused on the effects of glucocorticoids on the rat diaphragm muscle. Following graduation, Dr. Eason worked as a post-doctoral researcher in the laboratory of Dr. Arthur English in the Department of Cell Biology at Emory University from 1996 through 1998.

Dr. Eason joined the faculty at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in August of 1998. Her teaching responsibilities include coordinating physical therapy seminar, clinical neurology and clinical pediatrics courses. She is developing a collaborative research effort to investigate the role of cytokines in muscle damage with Dr. Gregory Bagby in the Department Physiology.