DPT faculty Kathy Lee Bishop, PT, DPT have been elected as a Distinguished Fellow of the National Academies of Practice (NAP) in Physical Therapy. A Distinguished Fellow in Policy within NAP is a very high honor that acknowledges her outstanding achievements and her collaborative efforts in the interprofessional community to influence and promote national health policy. Dr. Bishop will join NAP in On March 2020 in San Diego, CA for the Annual Meeting & Forum and the formal induction ceremony. This year’s forum title is “Innovations in Interprofessional Collaboration: Scholarship, Practice and Advocacy.” The sessions will focus on the themes of advocacy for interprofessional collaboration, interprofessional practice models for population health, and person-centered quality healthcare.
Congratulations Dr. Bishop!

Several DPT faculty were recognized by the Emory School of Medicine at a recent event held by the school. The awards are a testimony to Emory Physical Therapy faculty’s commitment to teaching, service and research. Kathleen Geist, PT, DPT, COMT, FAAOMPT and Trisha Kesar, PT, PhD were recognized for their promotions to Associate Professor. Bruce Greenfield, PT, MA, PhD, FNAP, FAPTA was recognized for being selected as the Catherine Worthingham Fellow of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA). The Catherine Worthingham Fellows of the American Physical Therapy Association (FAPTA), is the association’s highest membership category, serves as inspiration for all physical therapists to attain professional excellence. The award honors physical therapists who have demonstrated unwavering efforts to advance the physical therapy profession for more than 15 years, prior to the time of nomination. Joe Nocera, PhD was recognized for the Emory 1% award. The Emory 1% Awards honors and recognizes faculty who have received study section scores in the top 1 percentile on a grant proposal. And, Steve Wolf PT, PhD, FAPTA was recognized for achieving the Milli Pub status in May. This means that the paper by Dr. Wolf has been cited in at least 1000 refereed publications. The awards were presented by the SOM Dean Vikas P. Sukhatme MD, ScD on 10/29/2019.

We are happy to announce that Dr. Bruce Greenfield has been selected as a Catherine Worthingham Fellow of the American Physical Therapy Association (FAPTA)! FAPTA is APTA’s highest membership category to recognize members who have demonstrated sustained efforts to advance the physical therapy profession. Dr. Greenfield’s nomination included supportive documentation from many nationally and internationally recognized leaders in our profession who spoke to his prominent leadership, influence and achievements within the physical therapy profession.

Dr. Greenfield joins Division of Physical Therapy faculty members Steve Wolf, PT, PhD, FAPTA and Edee Field-Fote PT, PhD, FAPTA as our prestigious colleagues who have attained the FAPTA level of recognition. Congratulations Dr. Greenfield!

http://www.apta.org/HonorsAwards/Honors/WorthinghamFellows/