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The Catherine Worthingham Fellow of the American Physical Therapy Association, the association's highest membership category, serves as inspiration for all physical therapists to attain professional excellence.

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The purpose of this honor is stipulated in the Bylaws of the American Physical Therapy Association.

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This award acknowledges and honors a physical therapist who has made a significant contribution to the profession in clinical practice.

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This award acknowledges and honors one physical therapist who has made inspirational, significant, and impactful contributions to the profession. This is APTA's most distinguished award.

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This award is for clinical or academic educators who have been actively engaged for a minimum of 5 years in entry or advanced levels of formal education for upcoming physical therapy professionals.

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This award recognizes the importance of the role of physical therapist assistant educators in ensuring the continued provision of graduates who participate in the provision of high-quality physical therapist services.

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This award acknowledges an outstanding new faculty member who is pursuing a career as an academician and has demonstrated excellence as exemplified by the professional career of Margaret L. Moore.

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This award recognizes the plans, initiatives, and services developed by accredited physical therapist professional education programs or physical therapist assistant education programs in the areas of recruitment, admission, retention, and graduation of minority students.

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This award acknowledges an individual who has made significant contributions to physical therapy clinical education through excellence in clinical teaching, has served as a role model in clinical teaching, and has demonstrated expertise in at least one area of practice to which the clinical teaching has been directed.

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This award recognizes an association member whose demonstrated leadership and outstanding humanitarian volunteerism have improved the quality of life of individuals throughout the world.

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This award recognizes a physical therapy professional who has engaged in extensive clinical practice for a minimum of 15 years.

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This award acknowledges and honors physical therapists and physical therapist assistants whose contributions to the association at both the national and component levels, like those of Lucy Blair, have been of exceptional value and impact.

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This award recognizes and rewards an association member who demonstrates leadership, commitment and dedication to addressing issues related to societal welfare.

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This award acknowledges and honors a physical therapist who has made sustained and outstanding leadership contributions at the component, national, international, or community levels that have had an impact upon the advancement of the physical therapy profession.

This award honors recent fellowship graduates in order to recognize the intrinsic value of post-professional training and thereby promote and provide for the development and accreditation of fellowship education programs in physical therapy.

This award honors recent residency graduates in order to recognize the intrinsic value of post-professional training and thereby promote and provide for the development and accreditation of residency education programs in physical therapy.

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This award recognizes outstanding clinical practice interaction between physical therapists and physical therapist assistants who are a part of a highly functional PT-PTA Team.

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This award acknowledges an individual physical therapist who has made significant contributions to the literature in physical therapy or in other health care disciplines in the areas of theory, practice, foundational or clinical research, education, and administration.

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This award encourages the publication of outstanding physical therapy research articles, including both foundational and clinical research impacting practice and patient care.

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This award recognizes a physical therapist for an outstanding article in PTJ: Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Journal prepared while they were a student.

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This award recognizes a member who has demonstrated superior writing skills in one or more articles published in Physical Therapy, and who has collaborated with or encouraged others to make similar contributions to PTJ: Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Journal.

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The Eugene Michels New Investigator Award acknowledges outstanding new investigators who have demonstrated a commitment to research relevant to physical therapy.

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This award acknowledges an individual who has made significant contributions to physical therapy through excellence in research.

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This award recognizes outstanding achievements by APTA members in advancing the association’s federal government affairs objectives and activities.

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This award recognizes public servants who have enhanced the profession of physical therapy.

This award recognizes and rewards component leaders in the area of state legislative leadership who bring increased awareness and involvement to state legislative issues and who achieve success in state legislative issues that strengthen the practice of physical therapy.

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This award acknowledges and honors outstanding physical therapist and physical therapist assistant students who are nearing the completion of their respective programs of study.

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This award recognizes physical therapy students, and faculty members who are pursuing post-professional doctoral degrees, for their professional character and academic excellence.

The Dimensions of Diversity Pathways Grant supports the development and delivery of new or revised pathways programs and the development, delivery, and/or continued growth of diverse representation in recruitment, retention, and leadership development.