News: Physical Therapy
Division of Physical Therapy Connects Students and Employers at Career Fair
Physical therapy students met with an array of potential employers during the annual UCF DPT Career Fair on April 1. Clinics, hospitals systems, and top companies in rehabilitation services from...
Five DPT Students Accepted into Clinical Residencies
Five students from the Division of Physical Therapy have been accepted into clinical residencies and will start these programs upon their graduation from the DPT program in May. Meagan Friedman...
Student Researchers in School of Kinesiology and Physical Therapy Shine at Scholar Symposium
As part of Research Week, students from the School of Kinesiology and Physical Therapy showcased their research in exercise physiology and rehabilitation. The research spans five academic programs, and includes...
Activity Day Gets Kids of All Abilities Engaged and Moving
The Division of Physical Therapy, the UCF Center for Autism and Related Disabilities, and UCF Athletics joined with Providing Autism Links and Support to host Black and Gold Activity Day...
UCF Physical Therapy Educates ROTC Cadets on Injury Prevention
Clinical Assistant Professor Randi Richardson and second year DPT student Andrew Perez recently presented to a group of ROTC Army cadets to educate them on ways to reduce their risk...
Go Baby Go Hosts Interactive Field Trip for Middle School Students
A group of seventh-grade students from St. Mary Magdalen School in Altamonte Springs visited the UCF Go Baby Go lab in the CHPS Innovation Center on March 25. The students...
Incoming UCF Physical Therapy Student Awarded Doctoral Diversity Fellowship
Veoletta Dyer, an incoming physical therapy doctoral student, has been awarded the Doctoral Diversity Fellowship by UCF’s College of Graduate Studies. The fellowship is awarded to a student to increase...
UCF Go Baby Go Helps Central Connecticut University with Its First Car Build Event
Volunteers from a new Go Baby Go chapter at Central Connecticut University learned how to build cars for children with physical disabilities thanks to volunteers from the UCF chapter of...
Pabian Named As Fellow to National Academies of Practice in Physical Therapy
Physical therapy Professor Patrick Pabian was inducted as a Distinguished Fellow of the National Academies of Practice (NAP) in physical therapy. This interprofessional organization involving healthcare practitioners and scholars is dedicated...
Residency Faculty Marla Laloo Receives Community Grant from Orlando Health
Marla Laloo, PT, DPT, NCS, UCF & Orlando Health’s Neurologic Residency clinical faculty and UCF DPT alumni, is part of the rehabilitation team that received a Community Rehabilitation Services Grant...