2023 APTA Honors & Awards

Academy of Education News,

Congratulations to our APTA Academy of Education members on being chosen as an APTA 2023 Honors and Awards Program recipient. 

In conjunction with the 2024 APTA Leadership Congress, award recipients will be recognized next year at the APTA Honors & Awards ceremony on Sunday, July 21, in Kansas City, Missouri. A reception hosted by the PT Fund will take place that afternoon, with the ceremony immediately following the 29th John H.P. Maley Lecture, presented by Dr. McClure, scheduled to begin at 7:00 pm.


Minority Faculty Development Scholarship Award - Paula Johnson, PT, DPT, MBA

Catherine Worthingham Fellow Award - Jill S. Boissonnault, PT, PhD, FAPTA

Catherine Worthingham Fellow Award - William Todd Cade, PT, MSPT, PhD, FAPTA

Catherine Worthingham Fellow Award - Jennifer Braswell Christy, PT, PhD, FAPTA

Catherine Worthingham Fellow Award - Jane Fedorczyk, PT, MSPT, PhD, FAPTA

Catherine Worthingham Fellow Award - Stacy Lynne Fritz, PT, PhD, FAPTA

Catherine Worthingham Fellow Award - Marie A. Johanson, PT, PhD, FAPTA

Catherine Worthingham Fellow Award - Kathleen K. Mairella, PT, DPT, MA, FAPTA

Catherine Worthingham Fellow Award - Alison Lynn McKenzie, PT, DPT, PhD, FAPTA

Catherine Worthingham Fellow Award - Robert Rowe, PT, DPT, DMT, MHS, FAPTA

Catherine Worthingham Fellow Award - Julie Kristin Tilson, PT, DPT, MS, FAPTA

Catherine Worthingham Fellow Award - Pamela G. Unger, PT, DPT, FAPTA

Chattanooga Research Award - Shauna Dudley-Javoroski, PT, PhD

Chattanooga Research Award - Richard K. Shields, PT, PhD, FAPTA

F.A. Davis Award for Outstanding Physical Therapist Assistant Educator - Clarence C. K. Chan, PT, DPT

Lucy Blair Service Award - Beth Elaine Crowner, PT, DPT

Lucy Blair Service Award - Alan Chong W Lee, PT, PhD

Lucy Blair Service Award - Joyce Maring, PT, DPT, EdD

Lucy Blair Service Award - Kristin von Nieda, PT, DPT, MEd

Marian Williams Award for Research in Physical Therapy - Gammon M. Earhart, PT, PhD, FAPTA

Marilyn Moffat Leadership Award - Sharon L. Dunn, PT, PhD

Signe Brunnstrom Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching - Leigh Keith Langerwerf, PT, DPT

Societal Impact Award - Theresa Monaco Spitznagle, PT, DPT

Maley Lecture Award - Philip W. McClure, PT, PhD, FAPTA