Open scholarly work

Projects in clinical inquiry.

Educational infrastructure, an early software prototype, and a future-facing research initiative—each described at its present level of maturity.

Education · Open textbook · SimulationsIn active use

Physiolog

A muscle-centered approach to clinical physiology for physical therapy.

Physiolog combines a 12-chapter open textbook with interactive cardiovascular models. It treats circulation, respiration, renal regulation, and extracellular fluid as integrated support systems for muscle function and movement.

The project grew from approximately 30 years of teaching and addresses a practical curriculum gap: medical physiology texts are broader than DPT needs, while exercise physiology texts often lack sufficient clinical context.

Next.jsTypeScriptLaTeXOpen educationGitHub Pages

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Causal knowledge · Ontology · EvidenceResearch prototype

Models4PT

Infrastructure for transparent, computable causal knowledge in rehabilitation.

Models4PT explores how concepts, variables, measurements, sources, evidence, proposed causal claims, and curation decisions can remain distinct but connected. Its safeguards are deliberate: association is not causation, extracted text is not accepted knowledge, and diagrams are views rather than the canonical record.

The current prototype includes tested Python domain objects, conservative mock extraction, an ontology-resolution boundary, and a heart-failure/NMES case study. It is not yet a deployed knowledge platform or clinical product.

PythonFastAPIReactOntologyCausal modeling

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Bayesian inference · Clinical AI · ExplanationConcept stage

Clinical Inference Engine

A research initiative for patient-specific, uncertainty-aware clinical reasoning.

The project defines the intended inference layer of the program: patient-specific causal models, Bayesian updating, diagnostic hypothesis comparison, temporal reasoning, and inspectable explanations.

At present, this is an architectural and scholarly direction rather than runnable software. It is designed to consume versioned population knowledge from Models4PT without mutating that canonical knowledge.

Causal modelsBayesian reasoningExplainable AIBelief revision

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