Richard Bohannon

In 2010 he was named a Fellow of the American Society of Neurorehabilitation. He is also a Fellow of the Stroke Council of the American Heart Association and the American Physical Therapy Association. In 2018 he became a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America.

In addition to his physical therapy practice, Bohannon is a physical therapy researcher. He has more than four hundred publications, Bohannon has served as Editor-in-Chief of two peer-reviewed medical journals, the Journal of Human Muscle Performance (where he was also the Founding Editor) and the Journal of Geriatric Physical Therapy. In 1996 he received the Helen Hislop Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Professional Literature, in 2005 he was the recipient of the Marian Williams Award for Research in Physical Therapy, and in 2008 he was awarded the Jules Rothstein Golden Pen Award for Scientific Writing, each award given by the American Physical Therapy Association.

In 1996 he received the Helen Hislop Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Professional Literature. In 2005 Bohannon was the recipient of the Marian Williams Award for Research in Physical Therapy, and in 2008 he was awarded the Jules Rothstein Golden Pen Award for Scientific Writing, given by the American Physical Therapy Association.

Richard W. Bohannon (born December 29, 1953) is an American physical therapist, clinician, and scholar. Since 2000, he has served as Principal of Physical Therapy Consultants in North Carolina.