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The DPT Program has moved to our new location! We are now located at the Robert H. Morosky Academic Center (MAC). Our new location has a lot of natural light, larger lab space, new offices and more storage! We’ve spent a semester settling into our new space and are slowly getting used to new routines. All of the Health Profession programs (Nursing, Physician Assistant, Occupational Therapy, Respiratory Therapy, Radiologic Sciences, and Sport & Exercise Science) now all the MAC home. This will hopefully allow greater collaboration among programs in our curricula and research.

Please stop by to see the new building and spaces. The DPT program is located on the first floor of the building, located at 150 West 10th St. (between West 9th and 10th Sts. and Sassafras St.)

We are pleased to announce that the program was granted full reaccreditation by the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education (CAPTE) for the period 2009 – 2019. CAPTE is the only accrediting body recognized by the United States Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education to accredit entry-level physical therapist education programs.

Student News

Gannon University’s DPT program awarded 35 DPT degrees on May 9, 2009. The program also awarded 10 transitional DPT degrees to practicing clinicians. Congratulations to the DPT and tDPT class of 2009!

Ashlie Crewe-Campitella was named Outstanding Student of the Class of 2009. Aside from her stellar GPA, Ashlie was part of the team that published: Bruening DA, Crewe AN, Buczek FL. A simple, anatomically based correction to the conventional ankle joint center. Clin Biomech. 2008:1299-1302.

All three DPT classes came together for the 2nd Annual Celebrate Community Health Initiatives. Our students contributed over 4800 hours of service to over 30 community organizations. Examples of projects included facilitating a successful grant application for a local organization that needed to build a ramp for therapeutic riding participants, providing program activities for physical and nutritional education at Kids’ Cafes in Erie, and providing information health fairs at local senior housing apartments.

Faculty News:

Betsy DeAngelo joined the DPT program as Program Secretary. She has been a wonderful addition to our group, keeping the faculty organized and assisting with daily work efforts. Betsy joins us with several years of experience in the military, a prosthetic/orthotic office, and most recently the Gannon University Small Business Development Center. We are thrilled to have her!

Tom Hudson, PT, MS, PCS, submitted a “Let’s All Play” Inclusion in Recreation grant application to the Bubel/Aiken Grant Foundation through the Erie Homes for Children and Adults (EHCA) entitled “Partners in Dance.” This grant will offer a unique opportunity for non-ambulatory young adults and adults with severe developmental disabilities to partcipate in dance movement classes in collaboration with the Dafmark Dance Company, a local contemporary dance company.

Two members of the faculty presented posters at the Pennsylvania Physical Therapy Association annual conference in Harrisburg, PA. Donna Skelly, PT, MS, OCS, presented a poster entitled “Physical therapists treament choices and classification of acute low back pain patients: a descriptive survey” with former students Tanya Camilleri, Jake McBride, Amy McClure, and Lisa Santomaggio.

Jeannette Lee, PT, PhD, presented a poster entitled “The effect of energy conservation on fatigue and quality of life in individuals with post-polio syndrome” with fellow faculty Kris Legters, PT, DSc, NCS and former students Julie Ling, Sarah Bryant and Crystal Miller-Basich. Jeannette Lee, PT, PhD presented a poster at the American Physical Therapy Association Combined Sections Meeting in Las Vegas, NV. The poster was entitled "A cross cultural immersion experience between physical therapy students from North America and El Salvador". She also had a manuscript accepted by Psycho-Oncology, “A randomized control trial of a supervised versus a self-directed exercise program for allogeneic stem cell transplant patients. Shelton ML, Lee JQ, Morris GS, Massey PR, Kendall DG, Munsell MF, Anderson KO, Simmonds MJ, Giralt SA. Psychooncology 2009 18(4):353-9.

The program continues an active search for additional PT faculty to teach in the DPT program. If interested, please go to www.gannon.edu/depts/HR.