The CU Physical Therapy Program faculty have much to celebrate this summer, including a promotion, acceptance into a grant writing workshop, earning new educational credentials, and successful passage of a residency cohort!

Colorado was selected as 1 of 3 states for the “Early Childhood Developmental Health Systems: Evidence to Impact” award. Sites will focus on strategies that “put families and equity first”. Dr. Dawn Magnusson will be serving in a consulting role and will be expanding the work that has been done around shared decision making to support the design, implementation, and evaluation of a statewide, comprehensive roadmap for early childhood developmental promotion, screening, and intervention that improves outcomes and reduces disparities for historically underserved/marginalized communities.

Editor-in-Chief of the Physical Therapy Journal Alan Jette discusses academic career earnings and the projected shortage of physical therapy researchers with Alexander Garbin and Jennifer Stevens-Lapsley, whose recent study evaluated the short- and long-term financial impacts of a full-time PhD program for physical therapists with a DPT.

Robyn Gisbert, PT, DPT, assistant professor of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, and Margaret Schenkman, PT, PhD, FAPTA, professor emerita at the University of Colorado, studied the impact of heartfulness meditation on current health science students to measure reductions in anxiety, stress, and depression and boosts to resilience.