UT Health San Antonio Department of Physical Therapy

12/17/2025

The semester is over and it's time for the UT Health PT faculty and staff to celebrate! Happy Holidays to all our students, alumni, and friends! We're glad you're a part of our team!

12/08/2025

UT Health DPT program was well represented at yesterday's San Antonio Marathon and Half Marathon! Congrats to all the students, faculty, and alumni who finished! We couldn't get everyone together for 1 photo so thanks to DPT II Sophia Shin for her photoshop skills to put this one together 😁.

11/25/2025

A few weeks late to post, but our UT Health PT faculty, students and alumni were well represented at the recent Texas Physical Therapy Association Annual Conference in Houston.

Poster presentations:
Dr. Selina Morgan: Early Rehabilitation in a Unique Case of Neonatal Spinal Cord injury: From the NICU to Outpatient Care
and
Comparison of Horse Riding Simulators to Live Hippotherapy for Children with Cerebral Palsy: A Scoping Review

Dr. Bobby Belarmino: Interprofessional education sub-competencies in allied health students after interprofessional critical care simulations experiences

DPT III student Jasmine Bryson was awarded the Rex Nutt Outstanding PT Student for 2025, receiving the award from TPTA President and UT Health faculty Dr. Mike Geelhoed.

11/06/2025

09/25/2025

This past Tuesday, DPT students Alexandria Garcia and Sophia Shin traveled to Austin to help Dr. Geelhoed present to the UT Pre-PT Society to give advice on applying to our program. The application deadline is October 1 for our next cohort!

08/18/2025

Calling all UT Health Alumni and friends of the program! We are requesting help with prospective student interviews on the following dates:

Friday November 7
-Session 1: 8am-Noon (Zoom)
-Session 2: 1pm-5pm (in-person)
Saturday November 8
-Session 3: 8am-Noon (in-person)
-Session 4: 1pm-5pm (in-person)
Friday November 14
-Session 5: 8am-Noon (in-person)

Interviewers must arrive 45 minutes before their scheduled session for orientation. Free UT Health swag to all who help out!

Contact Dr. Selina Morgan, admissions chair, at morgans5@uthscsa.edu if you are able to assist.

08/15/2025

Recent analysis of NPTE (national board exam) data for US PT programs reveals that the UT Health San Antonio DPT program ranked in the top 18% in the country with a 94% first time pass rate in 2022 and 2023. Our first time pass rate the last 2 years has been even higher--96% in 2024 and 98% in 2025! Congrats to our fantastic graduates and the faculty team that helps prepare them for success!

08/15/2025

The UT Health DPT faculty had an amazingly fun and productive retreat day yesterday. Dr. Morgan took home the big prize from the Left, Right, Center game!

07/18/2025

We had a wonderful team of DPT students at Haven clinic today. DPT students (L to R) Nathan Marsales, Abigail Bouzigard, Emily Cline, Hailey Martinez and Madeleine Roe along with (not pictured) Margaret Seebeck and Madisen Gay helped 14 people who otherwise had no access to PT services.

07/17/2025

https://uthscsa.edu/health-professions/news/pt-and-medical-students-serve-health-clinics-dominican-republic-project-hispaniola

Students and faculty in the Doctor of Physical Therapy program traveled to sugar cane plantations in Dominican Republic this summer to provide services to hundreds of people as part of the Project Hispaniola program.

07/15/2025

UT Health PT grads Nick Patel (2000) and Mike Geelhoed (1998) with DPT III student Jasmine Bryson are on Capitol Hill today lobbying for the PT profession!

06/26/2025

Great to see our students and alumni doing big things in the RGV! Dr. Geelhoed got to check in with our DPT III student Joel Nwecke and 2017 grad Jose Suarez who owns Moveo Performance PT, and 2024 grad Vanessa Alonso who is starting her pelvic health certification and manual therapy fellowship.