Leadership and Faculty

USC’s DPT faculty are scientists and clinicians that promote academic rigor, intellectual curiosity and independent thinking. The program’s faculty and leadership are focused on student success and strive to support aspiring physical therapists across the academic experience and after graduation.

Total Faculty

Full-Time Faculty

Adjunct Faculty

FAPTA Recipients

Practicing Clinicians

Active Research Laboratories

Leadership

James Gordon, EdD, PT, FAPTA

Associate Dean and Chair

Christopher Powers, PhD, PT, FAPTA

Associate Chair and Professor

Julie Tilson, PT, DPT, MS, NCS

Hybrid DPT Program Director and Professor of Clinical Therapy

Rob Landel, PT, DPT, OCS, CSCS, FAPTA

Residential DPT Program Director and Professor of Clinical Physical Therapy

Faculty

Here are a few of the professors you’ll meet. A full list of the Division’s faculty can be viewed on this page.