News & Announcements

  • UBC Vancouver Summer Program 2025

    UBC Vancouver Summer Program 2025

    The UBC Department of Physical Therapy is participating in the Vancouver Summer Program (VSP) this summer! Join us for 4-weeks this summer and learn about Canadian health and life sciences. We are excited to invite international undergraduate students to join our UBC Faculty of Medicine Vancouver Summer Program focused on medicine, healthy aging, and “movement…

  • Year in Review 2024

    Year in Review 2024

    Friends and Colleagues,  As 2024 comes to a close, the Department of Physical Therapy is winding down our activities for the year and enjoying some well-earned time off, to refresh and renew for the coming year.    What a year it has been!  As you read through our many accomplishments of 2024, I think you’ll…

  • The healing power of exercise after stroke

    The healing power of exercise after stroke

    Together with UBC’s Dr. Janice Eng, a professor in the Department of Physical Therapy and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Neurological Rehabilitation, Dr. Liu-Ambrose ran the world’s longest study examining the effect of exercise on cognitive function among people with chronic stroke.

  • Fall Graduation 2024

    Fall Graduation 2024

    Congratulations to the UBC Department of Physical Therapy Class of 2024! A huge congratulations to all our grads who have succeeded in completing the demanding 26 months in the MPT program. We wish them all the very best as they start their exciting new careers! Meet a few of our graduates Haven Kolb “Movement has…

  • Behind the lab doors: Brain Behaviour Laboratory

    Behind the lab doors: Brain Behaviour Laboratory

    Researchers at Dr. Lara Boyd’s lab are investigating brain behaviour to accelerate stroke recovery and enhance quality of life and independence post-stroke.

  • More health-profession students will train at new UBC facility in Surrey

    More health-profession students will train at new UBC facility in Surrey

    Students in class at UBC’s new health profession training facility in Surrey. Credit: Paul H. Joseph, UBC Brand & Marketing More people will have the opportunity to train for in-demand careers, such as physical therapists, occupational therapists and midwives, at a new state-of-the-art University of British Columbia (UBC) facility in Surrey. “Our Province is focused…

  • Jared Smith – Master of Physical Therapy – North

    Jared Smith – Master of Physical Therapy – North

    Jared Smith Hometown: Valemount, B.C. Master of Physical Therapy – North 2nd year student What inspired you to pursue your program? I was ready for a career change and was dealing with some of my own injuries at the time. A physiotherapist helped change my mindset from thinking that I was broken and going to…

  • Back to School 2024

    Back to School 2024

    At the end of each summer, the UBC Faculty of Medicine welcomes British Columbia’s next generation of healthcare professionals and researchers to our campuses across the province. This year, the Faculty also welcomes the largest MD class in its history which includes learners who are musicians and professional athletes, former equestrians and machine operators, and those who…

  • Indigenous MPT student awarded Indigenous Graduate Fellowship

    Indigenous MPT student awarded Indigenous Graduate Fellowship

    We are thrilled to announce Maddi Bulloch, an Indigenous student in the Master of Physical Therapy Program, is a recipient of the prestigious Indigenous Graduate Fellowship (IGF). The IGF, awarded based on academic merit, is part of an annual competition managed by the UBC Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. Tell us a bit about yourself and your…

  • Dr. Joseph Anthony reappointed as Associate Dean, Health Professions

    Dr. Joseph Anthony reappointed as Associate Dean, Health Professions

    We are pleased to announce the reappointment of Dr. Joseph Anthony as Associate Dean, Health Professions, effective to June 30, 2029.