WashU Medicine Physical Therapy

07/24/2025

🗣Join us for WashU Medicine’s Physical Therapy Women's Health Residency Virtual Information Sessions, beginning on August 12th!

Register here or at the link in our bio: https://wustl.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1AeK1WKRLOicw5g

07/23/2025

🎉Congratulations to Amy Pender of PT26 who was selected to receive a substantial scholarship from Southern Illinois Healthcare. This competitive scholarship requires an application and an interview, and awardees must be passionate about interprofessional collaboration and have a commitment to bettering rural healthcare. Way to go, Amy!

07/22/2025

🗣Join us for WashU Medicine’s Physical Therapy Orthopedic Residency Virtual Information Sessions, beginning on August 28th!

Register here or at the link: https://wustl.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9p2UVsuJaD0V4l8

07/21/2025

07/17/2025

Join Drs. Catherine Lang (WashU) and Teresa Cruz (NCMRR/NIH) to discuss how to design control/comparator conditions for rehabilitation clinical trials at the July Lunch and Learn sponsored by the Interagency Committee on Disability Research at noon ET today.

07/14/2025

Congratulations to Nancy Bloom, Professor Emerita, who presented the 30th annual John H.P. Maley Lecture yesterday at the APTA Leadership Congress!

Her fabulous talk may be viewed on the APTA website soon. We will post on our stories when it becomes available.

07/11/2025

Three WashU Medicine Physical Therapy faculty—Dr. Steven Ambler, Dr. Jessica Randolph, and Dr. Patricia Navarro McGee—recently spoke with leadership from the Maplewood-Richmond Heights School District to share how we've implemented competency-based education in our program. We're proud to support and collaborate with local educators as they explore innovative approaches to learning!

07/07/2025

Dr. Catherine Lang was invited to be a Plenary Speaker at the "Toward a continuum of technology-assisted therapy" Summer School in Locarno Switzerland, June 23-27, 2025. The summer school was sponsored by ETH Zurich, their Rehabilitation Engineering Lab (RELAB), and the Clinica Hildebrand, Centro di riabilitazione Brissago.

This summer training program is for PhD students from primarily engineering disciplines, with additional students from clinical backgrounds to come together, learn from national and international experts, and interact with rehabilitation clinicians and people with neurological conditions (e.g. stroke, SCI, TBI). Lectures from experts were given in the mornings and students worked in small groups with an expert coach, a person with lived experience and a PT or OT to develop new ideas for rehabilitation technology in a user-centered design model.

Photography credits: © RELab / Stefan Schneller for the TCTT Summer School /

07/01/2025

🎉Congratulations to Profs. Lynnette Khoo-Summers, Jacob McPherson, Jenn Miller & Stacy Tylka on their faculty promotions, effective today-July 1st!

We are lucky to have you all!

06/27/2025

Happy !! Congrats to ! We are so proud of our new DPTs!!🌟 The spotlighted students this Friday are headed to California, Ohio, and Texas!

We would like to congratulate all of on their accomplishments and the mark they have left on the Program as we wrap up our series today. We can't wait to see how you all continue to grow and flourish in the world!

06/26/2025

🎉✨ As the semester comes to a close, our second-year learners celebrated with treats and fun games! It’s bittersweet to say goodbye as they transition to CE III and CE IV. We wish them all the best in their upcoming clinicals and can’t wait to see them back on campus in January for their final semester! Have fun and learn lots, WashUPT ‘26!!

06/24/2025

Our 2nd year DPT students in the pediatric group recently wrapped up their experience within the Clinician/Scholar/Educator lens with a powerful culminating activity. We were honored to welcome parents (and even a big brother!) who shared their journeys navigating the healthcare system with their children and siblings.

Their insights into family-centered care were truly eye-opening and deeply impactful for our learners. Hearing firsthand about the challenges, hopes, and priorities of families reinforced the importance of empathy, communication, and partnership in pediatric physical therapy.

Thank you to these generous families for helping shape the next generation of compassionate clinicians!