Catherine E. Patla PT, DHSc, MS, OCS, MTC, FAAOMPT

Dr. Catherine E. Patla has served as a faculty member since the University was founded in 1979. She was dean of professional education from 2011–2014 and co-director of the residency and fellowship programs from 2010–2013, among many other contributions. From 1993–2001, Dr. Patla served as a clinical assistant professor at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, and as an assistant clinical professor at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta from 1990–1996. She has also served as a senior clinician at Flagler Hospital’s physical therapy department in St. Augustine from 1988–1996. She currently participates in patient care part-time.

Dr. Patla has also worked as a senior physical therapist at St. John’s Medical Park in St. Augustine, Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Clayton General Hospital in Georgia, and the Mason Clinic in Seattle. She published two chapters in the Manual of Physical Therapy (Churchill Livingstone, 1989) and has written numerous course manuals, including home study courses for the Institute of Graduate Physical Therapy.