Megan Burgess
Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy and Orthopedics in the School of Medicine
Megan Burgess is an assistant professor in the Program in Physical Therapy at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. She is an instructor, lecturer and lab facilitator for foundational clinical skill courses and advanced courses integrating orthopedics with pelvic health. Clinically, she is a pelvic physical therapist at the Rehabilitation Institute of St. Louis, seeing male and female patients with urinary, bowel, and/or reproductive dysfunction, and women before, during and after pregnancy. Additionally, her work with clients addresses dysfunction of the lumbar, hip and sacroiliac regions.
She currently assists with research within the Program of Physical Therapy through implementation of study interventions for two clinical trials comparing rehabilitation approaches for patients with chronic hip pain. She also had the opportunity, through partnership with the Worldwide Fistula Fund, to teach orthopedic examination and clinical reasoning for physical therapy students at Mekelle University in Mekelle, Ethiopia.
Megan grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia. She received her B.S. and B.Ed. from the University of Virginia, and received her DPT from Washington University in St. Louis. Megan and her husband Nathan have three children (Preston, Hunter and Adair) and two dogs. They attend Central Presbyterian Church.