Physical therapy student Rashika Sunku, DPT ’25, took photos of herself doing therapeutic exercises while seated on a bench so that her participant knew exactly how to replicate them on his own. A...
Samuel Merritt University graduate Jennifer Welter, who works in pediatric rehabilitation, has made a significant contribution to children's health education. She recently co-authored a children's...
Stephanie Greenspan and Danny Nguyen, DPT ’23, practice a straddle inversion, a foundational movement featured in a recent study Greenspan conducted. Injury prevention is a common goal in the worlds...
PT doctoral candidate Robert Yu brings dancing and physical therapy into alignment “I think anyone can dance,” says Robert Yu, DPT ’24. The physical therapy student has been teaching open style...
An Nguyen, DPT ’22, knows what it means to take a chance for a brighter future. “My parents told me that they risked their lives fleeing Vietnam at the end of the war and came to the U.S. as refugees...
Leada Malek, DPT '16, still remembers her Management of Physical Therapy Services class from five years ago. Assistant Professor Heidi Garske asked students, “Do you have the entrepreneurial spirit?”...
A celebrity in the CrossFit world, Kelly Starrett, DPT ’07, opened the first CrossFit gym in San Francisco—and the 21st in the world—while still a student in SMU’s Doctor of Physical Therapy program...
Abigail Spaulding was worried. Her 20-year-old patient seemed to have plateaued, having made little progress during his two weeks at one of the country’s premier brain trauma centers, Spaulding...
Sharon Diaz, PhD (h.c.), RN, the founding president of Samuel Merritt University who served in that capacity for nearly 37 years before her retirement, died unexpectedly on September 12. She was 75...
Samuel Merritt University has been named the best college in California for getting a job by career research website Zippia. SMU was recognized for its 94.5% employment rate 10 years after graduation...
