He joined the NIH Clinical Center PT Section as a Staff Physical Therapist and progressed to the role of Rheumatology Clinical Specialist. He was instrumental in establishing the Strength Assessment Laboratories at both the Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center and the Washington DC VAMC Clinical Research Center following their construction in 2004 and 2015, respectively.[16][17] He served as co-investigator within the Intramural Research Program (NIH IRP) at the NIH Clinical Center in support of clinical and research activities at NIEHS,[6]NIAMS,[18]NINDS,[19] and NHGRI.[20] Harris-Love led the development of the Adult Myopathy Assessment Tool (AMAT) to provide a battery for the assessment of functional performance and observed muscle endurance for individuals with intrinsic muscle disease.[21] The AMAT continues to be used in the NIH IRP and it has been featured in multiple NIH-sponsored clinical trials.[22][23]He was also the primary research physical therapist for the Rituximab in Myositis Study which featured 31 international sites with 20 adult and 11 pediatric centers (cited > 680 times as of April 2024).[24] Based on his research contributions to the field of idiopathic inflammatory myopathies, Harris-Love was appointed as the first physical therapist to serve on the Myositis Association’s Medical Advisory Board in 2005.[25][26]
Harris-Love is the Director of the Muscle Morphology, Mechanics, and Performance Laboratory (3MAP Lab), founding the group in 2013 at the Washington DC VAMC jointly with the Research Service and Geriatrics and Extended Care Service.[27] The laboratory group’s research contributions at the medical center included raising sarcopenia awareness through publications focused on federal healthcare[28] and presenting a VA Center for Innovation project (with the San Francisco VA Medical Center) regarding sarcopenia screening in VA Renal Clinics to VA Under Secretary for Health, David Shulkin, and other VHA staff.[29] Harris-Love was the founding Co-Director for the Rehabilitation Research Fellowship Program at the Washington DC VAMC, and he later served as the Associate Director of the Human Performance Research Unit within the DC VAMC Clinical Research Center.[14] His national-level service during this time included his appointment to the Geriatrics Research, Education, and Clinical Center Advisory Subcommittee for the Department of Veterans Affairs, as well as his elected position as Vice-Chair of the Degenerative Diseases Special Interest Group within the APTA Neurology Section.[30]
Academic career
Harris-Love served as a physical therapist at the Clinic Hospital Methodist Campus and St. Marys Campus, and then in the Rehabilitation Medicine Department at the NIH Clinical Center, prior to his academic appointment at George Washington University (GW) in Washington, DC. He initially served as core faculty for the Program in Physical Therapy at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and later was appointed as an Associate Clinical Professor within the Department of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences at the GW Milken Institute School of Public Health.[14] Harris-Love developed a prototype for force-angle feedback augmented diagnostic ultrasound.[31]
In 2019, Harris-Love accepted a Visiting Professor appointment at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, and succeeded Margaret Schenkman to become the 9th Director in the 71 year-history of the University of Colorado Physical Therapy Program.[32] He prioritized post-professional education as a program goal and worked with faculty to attain accreditation of Physical Therapy Residencies in Orthopaedics with UCHealth and Faculty Development.[33][34] He also continues his clinical research through his joint appointment with the Rocky Mountain Regional VAMC and the VA Eastern Colorado GRECC.[4]
Selected publications
Key publications from Harris-Love and his collaborators have centered on assessing muscle dysfunction, developing clinically viable approaches to quantitative imaging, and applying exercise-based rehabilitation to improve muscle performance:
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