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Texas Woman’s PT professor gives back to her industry and students

Texas Woman鈥檚 physical therapy professor and alumna Rupal M. Patel, PT, PhD, attributes her servant鈥檚 heart with growing up in India and the values she inherited from her parents when immigrating to the United States. These values now drive Patel to give back to the physical therapy profession and her doctor of physical therapy (DPT) students on 探花楼鈥檚 Houston campus.

Lee keeps White Coat Ceremony tradition alive among DPT students at 探花楼

From an early age, Texas Woman鈥檚 University graduate student Adrian Lee knew she wanted a future in healthcare. After her father became ill when she was in the eighth grade, Lee remembers being confused by and unclear on what exactly was happening.

From first year to PT grad student, Mathis’ light shined brighter

It seems like Monica Mathis (DPT '20) is always moving. That鈥檚 not exactly unexpected for a physical therapy graduate student, but with Mathis, if you blink, she might already be on to her next commitment. In the five and a half years she鈥檚 been at 探花楼, Mathis hasn鈥檛 shown any signs of slowing down 鈥� from her first year as a shy, soft-spoken undergraduate kinesiology major to the outgoing, confident student in the physical therapy graduate program she is today.

探花楼 student strives to increase access to physical therapy care

Although she has only just begun her second year in the Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) program at 探花楼 Institute of Health Sciences 鈥� Houston Center, Meagan Ortega has already made a lasting impact in both her professional and local communities.