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Brian Young, PT, DSc

Chair and Clinical Professor

Brian Young, PT, DSc

Chair and Clinical Professor

Self-leadership is fundamental to success.

Areas of Expertise

  • Educational leadership and curriculum
  • Musculoskeletal care, medical screening, diagnostic imaging
  • Musculoskeletal response to austere environments
Kyle Adams, PT, DPT, DSc

Clinical Associate Professor

Kyle Adams, PT, DPT, DSc

Clinical Associate Professor

Believe you can and you're halfway there. (Theodore Roosevelt)

Areas of Expertise

  • Musculoskeletal practice
  • Pain science
  • Hybrid education
  • Admissions and student support
Evan Andreyo, PT, DPT, PhD

Clinical Assistant Professor

Evan Andreyo, PT, DPT, PhD

Clinical Assistant Professor

For you made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you. (Saint Augustine)

Areas of Expertise

  • Athletic movement assessment
  • Anterior cruciate ligament injury
  • Return to sport testing
  • Instructional innovation for self-directed learning
Elizabeth Ardolino, PT, PhD

Clinical Associate Professor

Elizabeth Ardolino, PT, PhD

Clinical Associate Professor

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. (Albert Schweitzer)

Areas of Expertise

  • Adult neurorehabilitation
  • Pediatric physical therapy
  • Non-cognitive factors impacting student success
Teresa Bachman, PT, DPT, DHSc

Clinical Associate Professor, Graduate Program Director

Teresa Bachman, PT, DPT, DHSc

Clinical Associate Professor, Graduate Program Director

Learning is messy, and so is teaching!

Areas of Expertise

  • Hybrid DPT education
  • Interprofessional education
  • Geriatrics
  • Outcomes Assessment
Tiffany Barrett, PT, DPT, DSc

Clinical Associate Professor

Tiffany Barrett, PT, DPT, DSc

Clinical Associate Professor

As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace...in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. (1 Peter 4:10-11)

Areas of Expertise

  • Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation
  • Clinical Anatomy
  • Educational Pedagogy
  • Low Back and Neck Pain Management
Anne Boddy, PT, DPT, PhD

Clinical Associate Professor

Anne Boddy, PT, DPT, PhD

Clinical Associate Professor

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise. (Maya Angelou)

Areas of Expertise

  • Neurologic Physical Therapy Rehabilitation
  • Parkinson’s Disease Assessment and Rehabilitation
  • Hybrid healthcare education
Jessica Feda, PT, DPT, DSc

Clinical Associate Professor

Jessica Feda, PT, DPT, DSc

Clinical Associate Professor

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. (Gandhi)

Areas of Expertise

  • Primary care musculoskeletal rehabilitation
  • Orthopedic assessment and rehabilitation
  • Integumentary/wound management
  • Learning strategies and self-regulated learning
Germaine Ferreira, PT, DPT, MSPT, BHMS

Clinical Associate Professor

Germaine Ferreira, PT, DPT, MSPT, BHMS

Clinical Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Physical Therapy
  • Aging Adult and Complex Medical Conditions
  • Physical Therapy Education and Clinical Instruction
  • Health, Wellness, and Chronic Disease Management
Megan Flores, PT, PhD

Clinical Associate Professor

Megan Flores, PT, PhD

Clinical Associate Professor

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love. (Mother Teresa)

Areas of Expertise

  • Pediatric physical therapy
  • Early childhood development
  • Adult neurorehabilitation
  • Scholarship of teaching and learning
Cole Galloway, PT, PhD, FAPTA

Clinical Professor

Cole Galloway, PT, PhD, FAPTA

Clinical Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Pediatric Neurorehabilitation and Early Childhood Development
  • Community Mobility and Assistive Technologies
  • Human–Machine Interaction in Rehabilitation
  • Adult Neurorehabilitation and Social Mobility
Christy Gantt, PT, DPT, LMT

Clinical Associate Professor

Christy Gantt, PT, DPT, LMT

Clinical Associate Professor

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. (Mother Teresa)

Areas of Expertise

  • Clinical education
  • Primary care in physical therapy
  • PT-PTA collaborative patient care
  • Medical care in remote environments
Josh Godfrey, PT, DPT, OCS

Lecturer

Josh Godfrey, PT, DPT, OCS

Lecturer

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. (Ephesians 2:8-10)

Areas of Expertise

  • Musculoskeletal Assessment and Rehabilitation
  • Functional Fitness Shoulder Assessment
  • Exercise & Fitness
Shane Koppenhaver, PT, PhD

Clinical Professor Associate Chair

Shane Koppenhaver, PT, PhD

Clinical Professor Associate Chair

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. (Carl Sagan)

Areas of Expertise

  • Dry Needling
  • Manual Therapy
  • Research Design
  • Biostatistics
Laurel E. Proulx, PT, DPT, PhD

Clinical Assistant Professor

Laurel E. Proulx, PT, DPT, PhD

Clinical Assistant Professor

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it. (Maya Angelou)

Areas of Expertise

  • Chronic Pelvic Pain
  • Musculoskeletal Management of Pelvic Floor Dysfunction
  • Orthopedic Lumbopelvic Management
  • Cultural Safety and Trauma-Informed Care
Regine Rossi, PT, DPT, PhD

Clinical Assistant Professor

Regine Rossi, PT, DPT, PhD

Clinical Assistant Professor

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. (Robert Louis Stevenson)

Areas of Expertise

  • Performance-oriented rehabilitation
  • Curriculum and assessment
  • Exercise, fitness, and wellness
Antonia Silva, PT, DPT

Clinical Assistant Professor

Antonia Silva, PT, DPT

Clinical Assistant Professor

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. (Theodore Roosevelt)

Areas of Expertise

  • Adult neurologic rehabilitation
  • Locomotor training
  • Community-based exercise
Casey Unverzagt, DPT, DSc

Director of Residency Education Clinical Associate Professor

Casey Unverzagt, DPT, DSc

Director of Residency Education Clinical Associate Professor

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.  For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. (Romans 8:1-2)

Areas of Expertise

  • Return to sport testing
  • ACL rehabilitation
  • Residency & fellowship education
  • National Physical Therapy Examination (NPTE) 

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