Innovation. Respect. Collaboration.
These features are embedded throughout our academic and scholarly activities and lived by our faculty and students.
The MGH Institute of Health Professions Department of Physical Therapy provides students unparalleled opportunity to play an increasingly vital role in helping patients restore function, improve mobility, relieve pain, and limit permanent physical disabilities resulting from injury or disease.
Our faculty are leaders, innovators, clinicians, and scholars. We strive to prepare our students to be part of patient/client-centered, interprofessional practice in a dynamic and diverse healthcare environment. Prepare for leadership in education, clinical practice, scholarship, professional service, and community engagement. Join us and begin your journey to become tomorrow’s physical therapist.
Unparalleled opportunity
Interprofessional Approach
We offer an interprofessional mix of contemporary, evidence-based academics, clinical research, and clinical experience. Special emphasis is paid to critical inquiry, clinical science, and case analysis – crucial skills for physical therapists in today's complex and demanding healthcare environment.
9th Ranked Program in the Country by U.S. News & World Report
PT Research & Scholarship
Physical Therapy Leadership
Our faculty, a majority of whom are practicing clinicians in leading hospitals and health care centers, bring real-life cases and integrate their research into the classroom and clinical settings to provide students with the most up-to-date information that will help them become better physical therapists.
- dapplebaum@mghihp.edu
- (617) 724-6924
- Shouse - 407
Assistant Professor
Director of Student Support and Activities
Physical Therapy
Coordinator, Marjorie Ionta Physical Therapy Center for Clinical Education
- jbaldwin@mghihp.edu
- (617) 724-2230
- Shouse - 416
Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor
Interim Chair, Physical Therapy Dept.
Coordinator of the Clinical Residency in Orthopaedic Physical Therapy
- knaidoo@mghihp.edu
- (617) 724-4848
- Shouse - 409
Dean, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Associate Professor, Physical Therapy
- lplummer@mghihp.edu
- (617) 643-6324
- Shouse - 413
Contact us
Innovation. Excellence. Leadership. Three words that capture our department’s traditions and aspirations. These features are embedded throughout our academic and scholarly activities and lived by our faculty and students.
- pt@mghihp.edu
- (617) 726-8009
- Catherine Filene Shouse Building 36