The Department of Physical Therapy is pleased to announce the arrival of two new faculty members who will join the faculty in full-time positions beginning in the Fall of 2022, Dr. Meike Corbitt and Dr. Brian Odom.
Meike Corbitt, PT, DPT, OCS
Dr. Corbitt is a physical therapist and a Board Certified Orthopaedic Clinical Specialist by the American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties and a 2008 graduate of the UCA Doctor of Physical Therapy Program. She will be an instructor in the Department teaching in the musculoskeletal course series. Her clinical interests include sports rehabilitation with return to play and components of outpatient rehab and she continues to be clinically active in central Arkansas. Her clinical focus for the past 14 years has been orthopedics within the private practice and hospital-based sectors, and has additional experience in the acute care setting. She has numerous continuing education certifications, including dry needling and blood flow restriction, and is currently pursuing her manual therapy certification. Dr. Corbitt previously served as an adjunct lab instructor in the musculoskeletal tract at UCA during the Spring and Summer semesters of 2022. She has been an avid member of the American Physical Therapy Association and has previously served on the board of the Arkansas Physical Therapy Association chapter.
Brian Odom, PT, PhD, CWS
Dr. Odom is a physical therapist and a Certified Wound Specialist (CWS) by the American Board of Wound Management. He received his PhD in Physical Therapy in 2018 from the University of Central Arkansas. He is a 1999 graduate of the MS in Physical Therapy program at UCA. Dr. Odom will be an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy teaching in the areas of teaching in the areas of kinesiology, foundational skills, cardiopulmonary, complex medical patients, and Integumentary. Dr. Odom began teaching in the UCA Department of Physical Therapy in 2005 as an adjunct instructor in the area of integumentary. He is clinically active at Arkansas Children’s Hospital since 2002. He currently serves as Vice President of APTA Arkansas. He was selected by the Specialization Academy of Content Experts (SACE) as an item writer for the APTA- Academy of Clinical Electrophysiology & Wound Management; a new specialty exam in wound management that began in 2022.