Faculty & Staff

Sharon Martino received her Baccalaureate degree in Physical Therapy from Hunter College in 1991. She went on to receive her Masters degree in Health Care Policy and Management with an emphasis on Education from Stony Brook University in 1998. She is currently pursuing her Doctor of Philosophy degree in Physical therapy from Nova Southeastern University, Florida, where she is studying issues of compliance to physical activity amongst particular patient populations such as individuals with chronic pain and also children who are overweight and/or clinically obese.

Sharon Martino has over 15 years of clinical practice in out-patient physical therapy, working with a variety of patient diagnoses with an emphasis on musculoskeletal injuries and the chronic pain population. Her research interests are in patient compliance to exercise. In particular, she is interested in developing a program of exercise for the pediatric patient who is overweight or clinically obese that will include a self-reporting system designed to increase compliance rates and improve outcomes.