Headlines 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

    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

    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

    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

    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…