Bernadette Gillick is an associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics. She is the director of the Waisman Pediatric Neuromodulation Laboratory and the director of research for the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research. Gillick leads several studies focusing on infants and children with early brain injury and resultant diagnosis of cerebral palsy. Specifically, her team investigates how the brain recovers and develops after early injury, and the development of new interventions with rehabilitation to optimize lifelong outcomes.
Gillick joined the faculty at UW–Madison in 2021. Prior to that, she was a faculty member in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Minnesota from 2011–2020, teaching Research Design, Pediatrics, Neurorehabilitation, Neuromodulation and Professional Behaviors.
She received her bachelor’s degree in psychology in 1991 and her physical therapy degree in 1993, both from Marquette University. She received her advanced master’s degree in neurologic physical therapy in 1999 and a PhD in rehabilitation science with a minor in neuroscience from the University of Minnesota in 2011.