Robert Zeid II, PT, DPT, PhD, is a licensed physical therapist with extensive clinical experience across multiple care settings. Since 2013, he has worked in skilled nursing facilities focusing on geriatrics and neurological rehabilitation. Since 2016, his practice has expanded to include critical care patients in the cardiac , medical-surgical , and neuro-intensive care units, with particular expertise in early mobility and interdisciplinary care for critically ill patients. Dr. Zeid received the Partners in Care award in 2018 at Kaweah Health in Visalia, California, recognizing his leadership in implementing an ICU early mobility program and a modified sternal precaution program to enhance patient outcomes in the intensive care environment. He has also served as a Clinical Instructor for Doctor of Physical Therapy students from Fresno State University.
Dr. Zeid has held multiple teaching roles in physical therapy and kinesiology education. At the College of the Sequoias, he served as a faculty member in the Physical Therapist Assistant Program, teaching courses in Neurorehabilitation and Pathophysiology. At Georgia State University, he taught Anatomy in Kinesiology, Biomechanics, and assisted in the Neuroanatomy laboratory for the Doctor of Physical Therapy program.
His research interests center on neuromechanics and motor control in both healthy adults and infants and young children with Down syndrome. In healthy adults, his work has examined H-reflex and tendon tap reflex responses following hopping interventions on compliant and non-compliant surfaces. In pediatric Down syndrome populations, his research includes early motor interventions in infants with Down syndrome, and gait biomechanics with and without supramalleolar orthoses in young children with Down syndrome, which served as the focus of his dissertation.
Dr. Zeid has extensive experience with 2D and 3D motion capture (Noraxon, Vicon), multi-axis force plates (AMTI), inertial measurement units, surface electromyography, and is proficient in data analysis using MATLAB and R.
Partners in Care - Kaweah Health 2018
APTA Georgia Research Grant Recipient - 2025
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