About
Dr. Charmaine Quijano, PT, DPT received her BS/MS degree in Physical Therapy in 1996, graduating with Summa Cum Laude and receiving both the Academic Excellence and Research Excellence Awards for Long Island University (LIU). Despite having two small children at home and working full time as a clinician and doing some adjunct teaching, she decided to go back to school and take her transitional Doctor of Physical Therapy degree, which she successfully completed in 2008. In her effort to give back to the Physical Therapy profession, Charmaine served as Clinical Instructor while working at Long Island University Center for Physical Rehabilitation (LICPR) and she has been an Adjunct Professor at the Doctor of Physical Therapy Program at Long Island University since 2004. Charmaine wanted to gain exposure to various physical therapy setting after she graduated so she took a job at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center now known as New York-Presbyterian Hospital where she completed differ