Panelists
8th Annual Faculty & Student Scholarship Symposium
Keynote Presentation: 10:10 am MDT, Room 206 in Building 3 & Main Zoom Room
Robert Manske
PT, DPT,MEd
Mr. Robert C. Manske, PT, DPT, MPT, MEd, SCS, ATC, CSCS, FAPTA, is a professor and former chair in the Doctoral Physical Therapy Program at Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas. Rob graduated from WSU in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts in Physical Education and a Master of Physical Therapy degree in 1994. Further, he earned a Master of Education degree in Physical Education in 2000.
Rob completed a year-long sports physical therapy fellowship in 1997 at Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center in La Crosse, WI. He received his DPT from Massachusetts General Institute of Health Professions in 2006. Rob has been an APTA Board Certified Sports Physical Therapist since 2002. Rob is also a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) through the National Strength and Conditioning Association and a certified Athletic Trainer (ATC) through the National Athletic Trainers Association.
Rob has been nominated and received numerous awards for excellence in teaching at the local, state, and national level – receiving the APTA Catherine Worthingham Award in 2023, the Sports Academy’s Turner A. Blackburn Hall of Fame Award in 2021, the Academy’s Excellence in Education Award in 2007 and the Ron Peyton Award in 2018. He was a 3-term Executive Committee member for the American Academy of Sports Physical Therapists, serving as the Representative at Large and two prior terms as Vice President.
To date, Rob has edited/published 11 books, multiple chapters, articles, and home study courses related to orthopedic and sports rehabilitation. Rob is an editor for both the “International Journal of Sports Physical Therapy” and “The Journal of Sports Rehabilitation” and is also currently a manuscript reviewer for The Journal of Orthopedic and Sports Physical Therapy, Athletic Training and Sports Health Care, Sports Health a Multidisciplinary Approach, Physical Therapy in Sports, and The American Journal of Sports Medicine (AJSM).
In the years 2005-2007, 2011-2020 was named a Principal Reviewer for AJSM. Rob has lectured at the state, national, and international level during meetings for APTA, NATA and the NSCA, and has instructed approximately 10-12 courses per year on knee and shoulder rehabilitation.
In addition to his full-time faculty appointment, Rob is a physical therapist and athletic trainer for PT Solutions/Ascension Via Christi Health and serves as a Teaching Associate at the University of Kansas Medical Center Department of Rehabilitation Sciences in Kansas City, and the Department of Community Medicine for the Via Christi Family Practice Sports Medicine Residency Program. Most importantly, Rob continues to practice weekly – spending approximately 8 hours per week treating a variety of shoulder, elbow, and knee conditions! His specialty is treating athletes, from recreational to professional.
Kyle Bills
DC, Ph.D.
After completing his undergraduate studies at BYU with honors, Dr. Bills attended Parker University. There, he graduated summa cum laude and was the recipient of various awards, including the President’s Scholarship and the James Parker Philosophy Award. He performed his rotations in the Dallas VA Medical Center, helping veterans returning from war. Dr. Bills then established Restoration Chiropractic in Tracy, CA. While there, he was honored to serve the state as a Qualified Medical Evaluator (QME) in the workers’ compensation system.
In 2016, Dr. Bills was offered a position at BYU in the Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program to research while he obtained a PhD in Neuroscience. Shortly thereafter, he was honored to receive the Ruth L. Kirtchstein National Research Service Award from the National Institutes of Health and to research as a fellow of the National Center of Complementary and Integrative Health. He is currently the Associate Dean of Research at Noorda College of Osteopathic Medicine. He holds adjunct faculty appointments in the Department of Psychology at Brigham Young University and in the Department of Neurology at Parker University.
Having watched family members suffer from severe, chronic migraine, Dr. Bills was frustrated with the lack of solutions that existed in medicine as a whole. After years of medical experience and research, he opened the Migraine & Neuro Rehab to provide the specific care migraine sufferers need. His unique background of experience in functional medicine and academic research in neuroscience has allowed him to help his family members, and now hundreds of others, recover from severe, chronic migraine.