Kirsten Aalberg, DPT

Kirsten Aalberg a physical therapist and has been working in early intervention for 14 years. She teaches the pediatrics class in the University of Utah DPT program and is the director of the University of Utah Pediatric Physical Therapy Residency.

Kirsten graduated with a BS in PT in 1996, completed a post-professional DPT in 2010, earned Board-Certified Clinical Specialist in Pediatric Physical Therapy designation in 2019, graduated from URLEND in 2021, and completed the URLEND Autism Enhanced track in 2022.

Capstone projects for her physical therapy degrees were Muscle Stiffness, and The Role of Vestibular Dysfunction in Motor Development Delay. Shew grew up at Lake Tahoe and has been in the Salt Lake area for most of the past 35 years