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Ray McKenna is Clinical Associate Professor of Physical Therapy at Stony Brook University. He has been a physical therapist since 1991 and a physical therapy educator since 1998. His initial undergraduate and graduate work focused on math, and he has brought that interest into the physical therapy program where his teaching responsibilities include courses in Research and Statistics.

Ray is certified by the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) as a Strength and Conditioning Specialist. For the past seven years, he has directed the Gait and Motion Analysis Laboratory at St. Charles Hospital and Rehabilitation Center in Port Jefferson.

Ray’s research interests include improving function in children with cerebral palsy, identifying and treating functional deficits in childhood survivors of cancer, health and wellness in children, and assessing the effects of new orthotic devices in individuals with lower extremity dysfunction.

Ray is a co-investigator and Program Director of Play Fit-Stay Fit, a comprehensive wellness program for childhood survivors of cancer and their families. Made possible by a three-year Lance Armstrong Foundation Evolution Grant, Play Fit-Stay Fit is intended to serve as a model program that will be disseminated for implementation in other locales. He is also a co-investigator of Move your Feet! - A school-based wellness program. Made possible by a mini-grant from the School of Health Technology and Management and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, this program is geared toward improving physical fitness and nutrition of 3rd-4th graders in a local elementary school.