Giselle Riem

I am a Doctoral Physical Therapy Student at Marquette University with a focus on pediatric healthcare and equality in medicine. Committed to enhancing human connection in therapeutic settings. Pursuing certifications in Aquatic Therapy and Spanish for Healthcare Professionals. I am open to relocation opportunities.

• Basic Life Support (CPR and AED), American Heart Association
• Lifeguarding with CPR/AED for Professional Rescuers and First Aid, American Red Cross
• Preventing Bloodborne and Airborne Pathogens, Jeff Ellis Management, LLC

• English, Native
• Spanish, Intermediate

• Aquatic Therapy - Drawn to the creativity and adaptability that aquatic therapy requires. It allows for individualized treatment that can target strength, flexibility, endurance, and mobility in ways that traditional land-based therapy sometimes cannot.
• Adaptive Therapy - Desire to help kids and adults to maximize their independence, function, and quality of life regardless of intellectual and/or physical limitations.

• Accepted research abstract into the 2022 APTA WI Conference, Increased Force Fluctuations During a Sustained Submaximal Isometric Contraction Post Stroke
• Recipient of Great Wolf Resorts 2021 Scholarship Grant
• Recipient of the 2026 John A Orlandini Scholarship
• Dean's List College of Health Sciences - Named every semester from 2020 Spring Semester to Spring 2023 semester
• Named Marquette University College of Health Sciences Ambassador for the Biomedical Sciences and Physical Therapy department

• Integrative Neural Engineering & Rehabilitation Laboratory (INERL), 08/01/22, 05/01/25, Milwaukee, WI, Worked as a student researcher at Marquette University in Dr. Hyngstrom and Dr. Schmidt's INERL lab where I assisted in research studies aiming to quantify muscle fatigue in stroke survivors and effects of related treatments. My research abstract, titled 'Increased Force Fluctuations During a Sustained Submaximal Isometric Contraction Post Stroke' was accepted into the 2022 APTA WI Fall Conference where I was the only undergraduate presenter.
• Undergraduate Student Researcher - General and Organic Chemistry, Marquette University, 09/01/21, 12/01/21, Milwaukee, WI, Directly assisted, conducted experiments, and performed analysis alongside chemistry professor, Dr. Vyas, for updating undergraduate chemistry kinetics lab associated with the Marquette Undergraduate General Chemistry and Organic Chemistry curriculum.
• Undergraduate Student Researcher - Neuroscience, Marquette University, 10/01/19, 05/01/20, Milwaukee, WI, As a team member of Dr. Hearings neuroscience lab focused on the neuroscience of addiction, I was responsible for documenting test results done on the mice, helping the senior researchers perform experiments on the mice, shadowing mice surgeries, and weekly documenting each mice and their progress.