ANPT has financially supported doctoral training awards in the past and at the same time has honored two extraordinary ANPT members, Mary Lou Barnes and Patricia Leahy.
The Mary Lou Barnes Adopt-A-Doc award was originated in 1993 after Dr. Barnes suggested during her Mary McMillan lecture that doctoral training needed to be supported by members. The Patricia Leahy award was begun in 1995 to further support doctoral education. Beginning 2001, ANPT has partnered with the Foundation for Physical Therapy to administer our scholarships within the Foundation DOCS program.
A fund to endow the two scholarships was developed by ANPT through the Foundation for Physical Therapy Research. We have achieved our goal of fully endowing the fund. Future awards will be self-sustaining, no longer requiring ANPT budget to reflect the expenses. The Foundation is the perfect mechanism to set up our endowment because it is a professional organization with experts in managing large funds. Members are encouraged to continue to pledge to the endowment and to route regular Foundation contributions to the ANPT Scholarship Endowment.
