Doctor of Physical Therapy- Azusa Pacific University

11/14/2025

Support APUDPT by enjoying Panda Express on Monday, December 1st. 🍜🍱 Use code 9010212 at checkout, and twenty-eight percent of proceeds will be donated back to our department to support student activities and programming. Thank you for supporting our community and helping us create more opportunities for our students. 🤍🤝

Raise money for Azusa Pacific University- Department of Physical Therapy

06/14/2024

As the Class of 2025 dives into clinicals, they step into hands-on learning experiences. Stay focused, stay passionate, and make a difference.🎉🥼💪🏻

04/25/2024

Clinical skills ✅ Survived our final clinical skills class with Dr. Patterson! We’ve bent over backwards learning this year (literally). Ready to roll into finals week like... 🤸‍♂️💥

04/12/2024

Cruising into the weekend after a hurdle of exams—PT school style. Rest? Is that a new muscle we haven’t learned yet? 😅

11/30/2023

Switched gears from Ortho lab to holiday mode with APU DPT at the tree lighting ceremony! 🎄✨

11/20/2023

Join us
*December 13 for Research Night!
All are welcome! Who doesn’t love free CEUs!
Register using the QR code, or by using the link in our bio! If you would like more information, reach out to Dr. Karim!
We are looking forward to seeing you there!
Special thanks to our friends for sponsoring this years event.

11/17/2023

🌟🏆 Celebrating a Remarkable Achievement! Cortez Espinoza, a model of hard work and excellence, is set to graduate this December. His path takes a prestigious turn as he embarks on his residency at Kaiser Permanente SoCal in February. 🏥📚 Even more impressively, Cortez has been honored with the highly prestigious Surge scholarship by the Rizing Tide Foundation 🎉This selective and esteemed award highlights his extraordinary dedication and potential in the field of physical therapy. A big round of applause for Cortez’s significant accomplishment in receiving such a distinguished honor, we are incredibly proud.👏🎓

06/24/2023

Where healing hands and compassionate hearts meet. Grateful for our incredible volunteers at the physical therapy pro bono clinic, making a difference one step at a time. 💙

04/05/2023

Interested in our PT program? Join our preview day Friday, April 14th. 🗓 Learn all APU DPT has to offer and bring us all your burning questions! 🔥 Register Now https://linktr.ee/apudpt . Looking forward to meeting everyone!

03/28/2023

is here! This is 24 hours to join with the APU family to make a difference for students. We invite you to support the Physical Therapy department when you give!

Go to apu.edu/givingday, click on the Make Your Gift Early button, and search for Physical
Therapy in the designation field when making your gift.

Under the Physical Therapy Department, you will find 3 options listed:
1. School of Behavioral and Applied Sciences - Physical Therapy Research for equipment and hiring students to help with faculty research

2. School of Behavioral and Applied Sciences - Kathy Kumagai Shimamura Endowed Scholarship -
This scholarship will provide crucial support for a student and encourage them to be a leader who carries on Dr. Kumagai Shimamura’s legacy - influencing many through excellence, loving God, and loving others. We are honored to have received a 1:1 matching gift of $3000 from a generous donor. During this campaign, your donation will be doubled!!

3. School of Behavioral and Applied Sciences - Physical Therapy Chair's Fund for special student events and awards.

02/17/2023

A huge congratulations to Michael Wong, PT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT for receiving the prestigious James A. Gould Excellence in Teaching Orthopaedic Physical Therapy Award at the Academy of Orthopaedic Physical Therapy Awards Ceremony! Your contributions to the field are invaluable and we're honored to work alongside you. We invite all CSM attendees to join us on Friday, February 24, 2023, from 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM, to celebrate this well-deserved recognition with Dr. Wong and the other deserving award recipients. Don't miss this opportunity to be inspired by the excellence in Orthopaedic Physical Therapy!

11/15/2022

We are so excited to announce this year's
recipient of the Kathy Kumagai Shimamura DPT Scholarship,
Tyler Siedentopp.🎉
This scholarship is in honor of Dr. Kathy Shimamura. DPT, who was influential in the PT profession and the global community through excellence in skills and an attitude of Christian service. She loved God and loved people.
Alongside Kathy's husband, Karl, we are honored to continue Kathy's passion for assuring that future generations of physical therapists are skilled at bringing others through tough times with the same kind of hope-filled encouragement.🧡
Congratulations, Tyler!🎉