Educator, researcher, clinician. These are all career pathways filled with 60 years of physical therapy memories for Steven Wolf.

Wolf, the 2025 Glen E. Gresham lecturer in the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, will revisit those experiences Oct. 9 during his talk, “Travels of a Physical Therapist: Following the Road to Discovery.”

The event starts with a reception at 4:30 p.m. in 148 Diefendorf Hall, South Campus. The lecture begins at 5 p.m., followed by a brief question-and-answer period at 6 p.m.

A Zoom stream of the address, for those unable to attend in person, will be available.

Throughout Wolf’s career, mainly spent at Emory University in Atlanta, several noteworthy accomplishments highlight his resume.

He established the Chinese practice of tai chi as a fall-prevention exercise for older adults and helped establish the Frontiers in Rehabilitation Science and Technology (FiRST) council for the American Physical Therapists Association.

Wolf also established the inclusion criteria for forced use of the upper extremity following stroke and contributed to the formulation of what later became known as constraint induced movement therapy.

Wolf, who recently retired, maintains his research role through funding from the National Institutes of Health. He’s authored or co-authored more than 320 refereed articles, edited nine books, obtained over $90 million in grant funding and has delivered more than 900 lectures, both nationally and internationally, throughout his career.

Since leaving academia, he’s channeled his efforts into consulting, aimed at transforming creative ideas into realities.