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March 2026 Newsletter

Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science Programs Newsletter- March 2026

This newsletter, dedicated to the Division of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science Graduate Programs, showcases only a part of all the activities and accomplishments that our amazing group of students, alumni, faculty, and staff are up to.

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Dr. Aaron Hellem elected as a MNPTA Nominations Committee member

Aaron Hellem, PT, DPT, PhD, CSCS was elected as a MNPTA Nominations Committee member in the elections that just closed on November 30, 2025. The APTA Minnesota Nominating Committee solicits participation from diverse geographic and practice areas of physical therapy in Minnesota, in order to prepare a slate of candidates for office positions, delegates, chief delegate, and to fill the Nominating Committee.  This committee prepares ballots, supervises the distribution and tallying of election results, and reports election results to the membership.

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Shanie Jayasinghe, PhD, Beth Albrecht, Zaynab Kassam, and Pramisha Thapa co-authored a publication in the Journal for Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience!

 

Albrecht, B., Kassam, Z., Thapa, P. and Jayasinghe, S.A.L., Are Kinematic Assessments from a Planar Reaching Task Better Than Standardized Clinical Assessments at Predicting Functional Independence in Chronic Stroke Survivors? Restorative neurology and neuroscience, online ahead of print.