Member Awards & Accolades

The Section is proud of our members' Section and National contributions both to the profession and the patients we serve. We extend our heartfelt appreciation and admiration for the 2008 Neurology Section Award and national American Physical Therapy Award recipients (to be presented at the Annual Conference in San Antonio, June 12, 2008):

2008 Neurology Section Award Recipients

The Neurology Section celebrates excellence in research, scholarship, clinical practice and service activities by honoring our members for their achievements and successes over the past years at the annual Neurology Section Business Meeting held at the Combined Sections Meeting Nashville, TN on February 2, 2008.

Service to the Section

• Vanina Dal Bello-Haas, PT, PhD

Clinical Excellence

• M Kay Wing, PT, DPT, GCS, NCS

Excellence in Research

• John A. Buford, PT, PhD

Golden Synapse Award

• Catherine Lang, PT, PhD, Jillian MacDonald and Christopher Gnip, PT, DPT
•  Donna K. Fry, PT, PhD, Lucinda A. Pfalzer, PT, PhD, FACSM, Anang R. Chokshi, PT, DPT, Michelle T. Wagner, DPT, and Emily Jackson, PT, DPT

Post-professional Student Award

• Margie Roos, PT, MS, DPT, NCS, University of Delaware
• Mark G. Bowden, PT, MS, University of Florida

Professional Student Award

• Colum D. MacKinnon, Katherine M. Martinez, Tanya Simuni, Northwestern University

 President's Award

• Janice Ford
• Robert Wellmon, PT, PhD, NCS 
  

2008 APTA Award Recipients  

Catherine Worthingham Fellows of APTA

• Linda Fetters, PT, PhD, FAPTA
• Elizabeth J Protas, PT, PhD, FACSM, FAPTA
• Margaret Schenkman, PT, PhD, FAPTA
• Jessie Van Swearingen, PT, PhD, FAPTA
  

Lucy Blair Service Award

• Judith Deutsch, PT, PhD
• Katherine Sullivan, PT, PhD, FAHA
  

Henry O and Florence P Kendall Practice Award

• Susan Ryerson, PT, DSc
  

Marian Williams Award for Research in Physical Therapy

• Richard Shields, PT, PhD, FAPTA

Dorothy Briggs Memorial Scientific Inquiry Award

• Larisa Hoffman, PT, MS

Jules Rothstein Golden Pen Award for Scientific Writing

•  Richard W Bohannon, PT, EdD, DPT, NCS, FAPTA, FAHA

Dorothy E Baethke-Eleanor J Carlin Award for Excellence In Academic Teaching

• Lisa K Saladin, PT, PhD

Signe Brunnstrom Award for Excellence In Clinical Teaching

• Heidi Dunfee, PT, DScPT

Mary McMillan Scholarship Award - Professional Education Level

• Christina Lapp Holladay, SPT, MA, CSCS
  
• Mahlon Stewart, SPT
  
• Valerie J Williams, SPT

Minority Scholarship Award for Academic Excellence - PT Students

• Christine Snipes, SPT, Youngstown State University