Roles
- Director of the APReCIAT Laboratory
- Assistant Vice Chair of Clinical Services
- Associate Professor of Clinical Physical Therapy
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Biography
Marlon Wong is a pain science educator and clinical scientist. He has over 20 years of experience as a physical therapist, and he completed a PhD in Physical Therapy in 2017 and post-doctorate fellowship training in neuropathic pain at the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis in 2022. Dr. Wong is an Associate Professor in the University of Miami Department of Physical Therapy, where he teaches in the entry level DPT and post professional residency programs, and he serves an administrative role in the UHealth Physical Therapy clinics. Dr. Wong’s research areas of interest include pain related topics across various patient populations including chronic musculoskeletal pain, neuropathic pain, and cancer related pain. Dr. Wong lectures locally and nationally on clinical reasoning and pain science related topics. -
Education & Training
Education
Post Graduate Training
Licensures and Certifications
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Teaching Interests
Pain science is my teaching area of focus. I am the lead instructor for a curricular thread on pain management, and I also teach medical screening in the entry-level doctorate of physical therapy program. In the post-professional orthopaedic and sport residency programs, I teach pain science, clinical reasoning, critical inquiry, and spine topics. -
Research Interests
I am currently engaged in clinical research focused on neuropathic pain in people with spinal cord injury, diabetic neuropathy, and in cancer survivors. I believe that better integration of patient perspectives into pain research is needed; thus, I am interested in utilizing mixed-methods to study novel nonpharmacologic and noninvasive interventions for neuropathic pain. -
Publications
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Clinical Trials
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Primary Objective: Assess feasibility (recruitment, retention, adherence, and acceptability) of a 14-day, daily self-applied taVNS protocol in adults with chronic CIPN.Secondary Objective: Explore relationships among candidate mechanistic markers- serum inflammatory markers (NfL, IL-1β, TNF-α, IL-6), corticospinal excitability (TMS SICI/ICF), and autonomic balance (HRV)-and CIPN symptom change across timepoints.
- Principal Investigator: Marlon Wong
- Study Phase: N/A
- Enrollment Status: Open
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1. Development of culturally sensitive videos for enhance informed consent with neurostimulation and determination of factors that influence minority interest in participating in neurostimulation research.2. Examination of the influence that video enhanced informed consent has on expectations with taVNS and on treatment intended effects.
- Principal Investigator: Marlon Wong
- Study Phase: Pilot/Feasibility
- Enrollment Status: Closed