Presenting Author
The University of Illinois at Chicago
Rich Severin Severin is a physical therapist and ABPTS certified cardiovascular and pulmonary specialist. He completed a cardiopulmonary physical therapy residency at the William S Middleton VA Medical Center/University of Wisconsin-Madison which he then followed with an orthopedic residency with a focus on clinical research at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). In 2022, he earned PhD in Rehabilitation Science at UIC with a focus on cardiorespiratory physiology and obesity. His clinical and research interests are cardiorespiratory physiology and exercise based interventions for patients with obesity. Dr. Severin is an active member of the American Physical Therapy Association, American Heart Association, and American Physiological Society.