Fabrisia Ambrosio is the Director of Rehabilitation for UPMC International and an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at the University of Pittsburgh. She also serves as a member of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine Executive Committee.  She completed a Master of Science in Physiology-Endocrinology from Laval University, and  Master of Physical Therapy from Drexel University. Ambrosio holds a PhD in Rehabilitation Science & Technology from the University of Pittsburgh.

Ambrosio's research has the long-term goal of developing Regenerative Rehabilitation approaches to enhance skeletal muscle function with increasing age and in the setting of disease. Her laboratory uses murine and human models to investigate the underlying mechanisms by which targeted and specific mechanotransductive signals can be used to enhance donor and/or host stem cell functionality.