Welcome to the School of
Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Sciences

Dr. Douglas Haladay, PT, DPT, PhD, CSCS, Associate Professor and Associate School Director received a $95,000+ RO3 grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality as the Principle Investigator. The project title is “Feasibility of Goal Attainment Scaling as an Outcome Measure for Patients … [read more]

On April 5, 2019 the University of South Florida School of Physical Therapy held their annual Commitment to Professionalism Ceremony for the Class of 2019. The ceremony marks the time in which the students are welcomed into the profession by receiving their first White Coat, and they take a special … [read more]

The University of South Florida (USF) Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) students and Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Scholars, Nicole Harder and Sandrine Urias, organized a Walk MS Tampa Team comprised of faculty and students from the USF School of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences (SPT&RS). … [read more]

Jeannie Stephenson, PT, PhD, NCS gave a platform presentation at the American Physical Therapy Association Combined Sections meeting in Washington, DC on Jan. 24, 2019. Her talk was part of the Academy of Neurologic Physical Therapy’s Degenerative Diseases Special Interest Group platform presentati … [read more]

The USF Health Service Corps held their annual Health Fair for workers at the Tampa Bay Downs race track on February 21, 2019. This is an annual event in which USF Health sends faculty and student volunteers from the School of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences, College of Pharmacy, and C … [read more]

On Friday, February 15 the School of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences had some much younger guests attend class. As part of the Pediatric Physical Therapy course Dr. Holloway recruited children under the age of 14 to work with our second year DPT students. The DPT students were perform … [read more]

Last week over 300 University of South Florida (USF) students representing USF Tampa, USF St. Pete, USF Sarasota-Manatee, and USF Health traveled to Tallahassee for the annual USF Day at the Capital. Among those students were four of our second year DPT students Devina Gilmore, Justin Reynolds, Ali … [read more]

(Dr. Swisher, School Director pictured with construction foreman, Chris and superintendent, Cliff) The University of South Florida (USF) School of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences (SPT&RS) recently started a new construction project to create the largest classroom within their facil … [read more]