Physical Therapy

Elon students Megan Stobie G'09, Casey Hambel '09, Drew Lanzl '09 and Becca Leslie '11 led the Alamance Stingrays in Aquatics at the recent 2009 Special Olympics North Carolina Summer Games in Cary, N.C., where the team collected more than a dozen medals in competition.

Jeremy Gates can’t remember the car wreck that nearly claimed his life. But for the Burlington man, who undergoes physical therapy with Elon University DPT students and staff at Alamance Regional Medical Center, that’s not important. His desire to walk is another story.

 Physical therapy faculty and students presented their research findings at the Combined Sections Meeting of the American Physical Therapy Association on Feb. 11-12. The conference was held in Las Vegas, Nev. The following presentations were given (faculty listed first):

Thirty-eight students enrolled Jan. 5, 2009, in the DPT program in the Department of Physical Therapy Education. Their enrollment marks Elon’s seventh class of DPT students.

Forty-five candidates in the university’s doctor of physical therapy program received their degrees on Dec. 7, 2008, in a ceremony featuring remarks from Elon President Leo M. Lambert and an address from Jody Shapiro Gandy, director of academic/clinical education affairs at the American Physical Therapy Association.