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    Daniel McPherson portrait from White Coat Ceremony 2022

    The Making of a Clinician-Scientist
    Daniel McPherson portrait from White Coat Ceremony 2022
    By uscbknpt, November 5, 2025

    With recent DPT graduate and current PhD student Dan McPherson, the Division sees a model for future physical therapists — a clinician-scientist who can move confidently between the research lab and patient care spaces, helping to further spur innovative treatment methods and care pathways to optimize patient outcomes. BY JAMIE WETHERBE MA ’04 DESPITE THE…

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    How Extended Reality Can Help Rehab Patients
    Older woman wearing virtual reality headset
    By uscbknpt, October 29, 2025

    A new grant will fund the use of extended reality — technologies that merge the physical and virtual worlds — as rehabilitation for patients with cardiovascular and Parkinson’s diseases.

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    Woman in dress holding her abdomen, aching from endometriosis pain.

    USC Researchers Study How Neural Systems Shape the Chronic Pain Experience
    Woman in dress holding her abdomen, aching from endometriosis pain.
    By uscbknpt, October 10, 2025

    Associate Professor Jason Kutch has earned a new $2.9 million grant for a study using brain images from thousands of patients with endometriosis to better understand treatment response.

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    Infant with mom, learning to walk

    Monitoring Baby
    Infant with mom, learning to walk
    By uscbknpt, October 6, 2025

    Division researcher Kari Kretch has earned a new federal grant that will use wearable technology and machine learning to measure how infants’ everyday movements are related to optimal motor development.

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    09.19.2025
    Powers Earns 2026 McMillan Visionary Leader Lecture Award
    Professor/Associate Chair Christopher Powers PhD '96 has earned the 2026 McMillan Visionary Leader Lecture Award, which is meant to recognize a physical therapist who has made “inspirational, signif
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    09.08.2025
    Division Names Interim Associate Dean/Chair
    Professor-Clinical Scholar of Physical Therapy Lori Michener has stepped into the Interim Associate Dean and Chair role for at least a year until a permanent leader is installed.
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    09.08.2025
    Celebrating Jim Gordon’s 25 Years of Leadership
    Twenty-five years after taking the reins, James Gordon has stepped down from his leadership role as Associate Dean and Chair, leaving the Division transformed into a model for research, education and
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    08.21.2025
    Decoding How Apathy Works in the Body and Brain
    Assistant Professor Kristan Leech has received a new grant to study how motivation and walking work together in patients post-stroke.
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    07.30.2025
    Practicing What They Preach
    In pursuing their own academic doctorate degrees, three seasoned USC DPT faculty members (including Elise Ruckert, pictured above with her two children) model lifelong learning and continuous personal
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    07.29.2025
    Faculty Member Takes on an Advisory Role at the American Medical Association
    Stephanie Woelfel has spent her career focused on wounds and other ways to improve physical therapy. BY KATHARINE GAMMON STEPHANIE WOELFEL HAS BEEN SELECTED to serve on the American Medical Associatio
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