Rizing Tide Scholars
Providing Care for All: Meet Rizing Tide Scholar Liam Calvin Odesa Henson
This is the seventh installment of the 2022 Rizing Tide Lighthouse Series: a series of blogs and video interviews that spotlight our exceptional scholars. Stay tuned for the next installment! Liam Calvin Odesa Henson was originally drawn to physical therapy to manage and improve his physical health. “I wanted to do physical therapy because I…
Read MoreA Future Traveling PT: Meet Rizing Tide Scholar Maya Jones
This is the sixth installment of the 2022 Rizing Tide Lighthouse Series: a series of blogs and video interviews that spotlight our exceptional scholars. Stay tuned for the next installment! Maya Jones—a DPT student attending the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)—was initially drawn to physical therapy due to its many specialization opportunities. “So once…
Read MoreSupporting Others and Making Waves: Meet Rizing Tide Scholar Mikaela Renae Holley
This is the fifth installment of the 2022 Rizing Tide Lighthouse Series: a series of blogs and video interviews that spotlight our exceptional scholars. Stay tuned for the next installment! Mikaela Renae Holley knew she wanted to attend a DPT program where she could grow. So, when she heard her friends speak highly of the…
Read MoreProfessional Dance to Physical Therapy: Meet Rizing Tide Scholar Brittany Ballentine
This is the fourth installment of the 2022 Rizing Tide Lighthouse Series: a series of blogs and video interviews that spotlight our exceptional scholars. Stay tuned for the next installment! After completing her undergraduate degree away from her hometown of Baltimore, Maryland, Brittany Ballentine knew that her future was back home. “I went to undergrad…
Read MoreA Heart for the Hardworking: Meet Rizing Tide Scholar Oliver Artiga
This is the third installment of the 2022 Rizing Tide Lighthouse Series: a series of blogs and video interviews that spotlight our exceptional scholars. Stay tuned for the next installment! After watching his parents work hard and endure major physical toil in their blue-collar careers, Oliver Artiga began to research the injury risks associated with…
Read MoreBuilding Relationships Through PT: Meet Rizing Tide Scholar Zahraa Darwich
This is the second installment of the 2022 Rizing Tide Lighthouse Series: a series of blogs and video interviews that spotlight our exceptional scholars. Stay tuned for the next installment! In an abundance of caution, Zahraa Darwich applied to 13 different DPT programs. Did she need to? Almost certainly not. Her application was strong, and…
Read MoreAchieving PT Dreams: Meet Rizing Tide Scholar Fiorella Barreda
This is the first installment of the 2022 Rizing Tide Lighthouse Series: a series of blogs and video interviews that spotlight our exceptional scholars. Stay tuned for the next installment! Growing up, sports-enamored Fiorella Fernandez Barreda dreamed of becoming a doctor. But it wasn’t until years later, when she stumbled upon the physical therapy field,…
Read MoreFrom Athletics to Medicine: Meet Rizing Tide Scholar Stephon Moise
This is the final 2021 installment of the Rizing Tide’s Lighthouse Series, a string of interviews spotlighting our exceptional scholars. We’ve introduced our full 2021 cohort, so the Lighthouse will return later this year to unveil to a new group of bright and tenacious PT students! Physical therapy is an amazing field of medicine. It’s…
Read MoreAssisting the Global Geriatric Population: Meet Rizing Tide Scholar Nanami Mano
This is the seventh installment of Rizing Tide’s Lighthouse Series which spotlights our exceptional scholars. Stay tuned for the next installment! Physical therapy’s movement-focused approach to medicine and patient care acts like a magnet for some aspiring healthcare workers—and Nanami Mano, DPT, was no different. She first encountered the field in high school when she…
Read MoreA Journey into Neurological PT: Meet Rizing Tide Scholar Uzair Hammad
This is the sixth installment of Rizing Tide’s Lighthouse Series which spotlights our exceptional scholars. Stay tuned for the next installment! Dr. Uzair Hammad didn’t always know which PT specialty he wanted to pursue—but today, he’s completing his neurological physical therapy residency with the University of Central Florida and the Orlando Health Regional Medical Center.…
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