Division of Physical Therapy

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1 The University of North Carolina School of Medicine Department of Allied Health Sciences 56th Annual Commencement Ceremony Grumman Auditorium The William & Ida Friday Center Chapel Hill, NC August 2, :00 P.M.

2 PROGRAM Processional Welcome and Remarks Lee McLean, PhD Associate Dean and Chair Dept. of Allied Health Sciences Student Reflections Doctor of Physical Therapy Transitional Doctor of Physical Therapy Paige Kensrue Andrea Hartzell Honors and Awards Recognition of Transitional DPT Students Karen McCulloch, PT, PhD, NCS Professor, Assistant Director- Distance & Continuing Education Recognition of DPT Students Lisa Johnston, PT, MS, DPT Jon Hacke, PT, DPT, MA, OCS Associate Professor; Assistant Director- Professional Program Assistant Professor Closing Remarks Recessional

3 GRADUATES FOR THE TRANSITIONAL DOCTOR OF PHYSICAL THERAPY DEGREE James Every Andrea Hartzell GRADUATES FOR THE DOCTOR OF PHYSICAL THERAPY DEGREE Nicholas Camilleri Natalie Chapin Megan Christiansen Kimberly Dale Betsy Frederick Alexandra Gormley Brandon Hall Erin Hopper Kyle Hoppes Paige Kensrue Carly Laper Joanne LaRowe Brandon Lindquist Matthew Medlin Kendall Schlossberg Cassandra Short Lauren Suggs Britt Tatum Elizabeth Waddell Sarah Yancey

4 HONORS and AWARDS MARGARET L. MOORE STUDENT RECOGNITION AWARD Andrea Hartzell JUDY CAPPS BESWICK AWARD Presented by Susan Gisler on behalf of UNC Hospitals MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS LEARNING TRACK Elizabeth Waddell MABEL PARKER AWARD Jessica Haury, PT, DPT, MED FACULTY AWARD Presented by SPECIAL PRESENTATION Kendall Schlossberg SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS REBECCA IRENE SANDE SCHOLAR VANESSA LOUISE HALL SCHOLARSHIP Megan Christiansen Brandon Hall Kendal Schlossberg PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP Brandon Lindquist Cassandra Short BEATTY MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP MABEL PARKER SCHOLARSHIP LONG SCHOLARSHIP Carly Laper Erin Hopper CLASS OF 1964 SCHOLARSHIP ROSE & DAVE HAMM SCHOLARSHIP FOR CLINICAL EXCELLENCE ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONS SCHOLARSHIP OF EXCELLENCE Matthew Medlin JUDY A. WHITE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AWARD Natalie Chapin Meghan Eyler

5 SPTA CLASS OFFICERS President Vice President Secretary Treasurer Natalie Lawler RESEARCH ASSISTANTS Michael Lewek, PT, PHD Karen McCulloch, PT, PHD, NCS SERVICE LEARNING TRIP PARTICIPANTS Erin Hopper Tyrell and Dare Counties Sarah Yancey Natalie Chapin Kimberly Dale Betsy Frederick Brandon Hall Paige Kensrue Guatemala Carly Laper Joanne LaRowe Cassandra Short Lauren Suggs Britt Tatum

6 HISTORY Physical Therapy started in Chapel Hill in April 1952, when the North Carolina Memorial Hospital opened. Dr. Margaret Moore developed the first physical therapy clinical program at the hospital, where she was chief of the department until It was in July 1957 that the physical therapy education program got underway, with Dr. Moore as the director of the a viable combination of education and service commitments in the hospital and School of Medicine. Dr. Moore was director of the program until Shirley Cloninger Fisher was the first graduate in Physical Therapy at Chapel Hill in The initial degree was a Bachelor s in Physical Therapy and now is the Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT). In the fall of 2004, as the transition to doctoral programs in physical therapy was occurring in the US, a program began at UNC to allow therapists to earn the DPT. The transitional DPT program allows licensed physical therapists with a bachelor s or master s degree in PT to earn their DPT by completing courses through distance education. UNC-Chapel Hill was one of the first institutions to offer post-professional training to physical therapists. Our Master s program in Physical Therapy, established in 1975, offered a Master s of Clinical Teaching (MACT) degree that focused on college teaching. As we developed a greater focus on research, we shifted to a MS program in PT and, in the early 1990s, the degree changed again from an MS in PT to an MS in Human Movement Science. This change and the need for more well-trained PT researchers was the basis of our efforts to establish the PhD program in Human Movement Science in We now have over 200 PT graduates from our postprofessional programs across the USA, Canada, Asia, India, and Europe. We are very fortunate that many maintain close ties with Carolina.