Leslie N. Russek

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Leslie Russek, PT, DPT, PhD, OCS, is Professor Emeritus of Physical Therapy at Clarkson University. She is an Orthopaedic Certified Specialist physical therapist with over 30 years of clinical practice experience with 25 years working with patients with hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. Her research and clinical interests include hypermobile EDS, fibromyalgia, headaches and chronic pain. Prof. Russek has published and presented nationally and internationally on HSD/hEDS, headaches, and chronic pain management. She is currently co-facilitating the Allied Health Professionals ECHO Telementoring series for EDS in North America and co-leading the Allied Health Working Group of the International Consortium of Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes and Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders; she was also a member of the 2021-2022 National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Committee on Selected Heritable Connective Tissue Disorders and Disability. Although Prof. Russek has retired from academic teaching, she continues to treat patients and lecture to health care providers and patient groups.