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Division of Physical Therapy Receives NCPTA Award

October 11, 2017

In October, the Division of Physical Therapy participated in the North Carolina Physical Therapy Association’s Outreach Challenge at the Association’s fall conference. The challenge aimed to recognize the program whose students logged the most collective volunteer hours outside of program requirements. Of all the NCPTA schools that participated, UNC had...

Division of Physical Therapy Welcomes Class of 2020 with Professionalism Ceremony

September 18, 2017

The UNC Student Physical Therapy Association (SPTA) and the Division of Physical Therapy officially welcomed 32 incoming students in the class of 2020 at a professionalism ceremony on Friday, September 8, 2017, in the Medical Biomolecular Research Building. Division director Deborah Givens, PT, PhD, DPT, said the ceremony is an...

Division of Physical Therapy Holds 58th Commencement Ceremony

The Division of Physical Therapy celebrated its 58th annual commencement ceremony on Saturday, August 5, 2017, at the William and Ida Friday Center. More than 30 graduates representing the Doctor of Physical Therapy and the transitional Doctor of Physical Therapy programs received their degrees. Three physical therapists who completed residencies in...

Striking a Balance

People with cerebral palsy (CP) are now living longer than they ever have before. But a longer life with CP can include more complex health issues that providers are struggling to accommodate. One physical therapist at UNC wants to change that. When Sarah Dowd was diagnosed with breast cancer in...

Division of Physical Therapy Celebrates 60 Years of Teaching, Research, and Clinical Care

The Division of Physical Therapy celebrated its 60thanniversary on Saturday, May 20, 2017. Alumni, friends, and family gathered at The Farm in Chapel Hill to recognize the program’s valuable contributions to the field of physical therapy. Dr. Stephen R. Hooper, associate dean and chair of the Department of Allied Health Sciences at...

Division of Physical Therapy Students Recognized for Philanthropy by the Foundation for Physical Therapy

Students in the Division of Physical Therapy have received honors from the 2016-2017 Foundation for Physical Therapy’s VCU-Marquette Challenge for their fundraising efforts; the challenge is an annual initiative to support new investigators in the field of physical therapy research. UNC-Chapel Hill physical therapy students sponsor an annual golf tournament...