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HSC to launch physical therapy program
Beginning in Fall 2010, UNTHSC will offer a Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from the School of Health Professions. Dr. Clayton Holmes, a native of Nixon, Texas, has been named chair of the new Department of Physical Therapy. He will help develop the new program into one of the country’s leading physical therapy schools and the choice of incoming physical therapy students. The program will meld cutting-edge physical therapy education with manipulative medicine through the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine and UNTHSC's Physical Medicine Institute.
Dr. Holmes is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. He served as an active faculty instructor and assistant professor of physical therapy at University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio before earning a master’s degree at Purdue University and a doctorate from the University of Arkansas. He has chaired the physical therapy program at the University of Toledo since 2002.
A certified athletic trainer, Dr. Holmes will help design and teach a unique therapy program that will combine traditional physical therapy techniques along with osteopathic-based manipulation to benefit patients. His appointment is effective Aug. 1. 