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APTA offers multiple opportunities to connect with your peers.

APTA Member Engagement Groups (MEGs) include councils, networks, societies, and collaborations that help members connect with each other, share information, and advance the profession. MEGs provide opportunities for members to explore APTA and interact with its community.

APTA Councils

Councils are national communities of volunteers that help to advance the strategic priorities of the association and profession. Councils are composed of component representatives who are selected or elected by APTA components.

Council members represent the component from which they were selected for their role. Council members act as the liaison between APTA national and their component by sharing information and promoting initiatives at the component level

Component representatives (chapter-based, section-based, all components).

APTA Chapter Presidents Council 
Chapter Presidents representing their chapter at a national level.

APTA Chief Delegates Council 
Chief Delegates representing their delegation at a national level.

APTA Clinical Practice Guideline Council 
Component leaders representing their section/academy at a national level on clinical practice guideline development.

APTA CSM Research Chairs
CSM Research Chairs representing their section at a national level

APTA Ethics Chairs Council
Ethics Chairs representing their component at a national level.

APTA Federal Affairs Liaison Council
Federal Affairs Liaisons representing their component at a national level.

APTA Membership Chairs Council 
Membership Chairs representing their component at a national level.

APTA Payment Chairs Council 
Payment Chairs representing their component at a national level.

APTA Practice Chairs Council
Practice Chairs representing their component at a national level.

APTA PT Post-Professional Education Council 
Component leaders representing their section/academy at a national level on PT Post-Professional Education.

APTA PTA Council
PTAs representing their component at a national level.

APTA PTPAC State Ambassadors Council 
PTPAC State Ambassadors representing their chapter at a national level.

APTA Section Presidents Council
Section and Academy presidents representing their section/academy at a national level.

APTA Section Program Chairs Council 
Section Program Chairs representing their section/academy at a national level.

APTA State Legislative Chairs Council 
State Legislative Chairs representing their chapter at a national level.

APTA Student Council 
Students representing their component at a national level.

APTA Treasurers Council
Treasurers representing their component at a national level.

APTA Networks

Networks bring members together around specific topics that affect physical therapy. Networks are composed of self-selected individuals.

Network participants share insights, learn from each other, and work to advance the profession. All members can be part of a network.

Topic based information sharing and networking.

APTA Advocacy Network 
The APTA Advocacy Network keeps APTA member advocates connected through special legislative updates and action alerts.

APTA Clinical Education Network 
The Clinical Education Network is a space for members to network about issues related to clinical education.

APTA Clinical Practice Guideline Network 
The CPG Network allows members to share resources and training materials related to the development, and implementation of clinical practice guidelines. 

APTA Frontiers in Rehabilitation, Science, and Technology Network
The APTA FiRST Network connects members to leverage scientific and technological discoveries that advance physical therapist practice, education, and research.

APTA Health Promotion and Wellness Network
The APTA Health Promotion and Wellness Network connects members to develop and disseminate best practices in prevention, health promotion, and wellness for all.

APTA Health Systems Network
The APTA Health Systems Network connects members who work in major health systems and share a common goal to improve society by advancing practice.

APTA Key Contacts Network
The APTA Key Contacts Network connects members who serve as the primary contacts with their Senators or Representative in the United States Congress. 

APTA Post-Acute Care Member Network 
The APTA Post-Acute Care Member Network identifies areas of improvement across care delivery, quality reporting, and alternative payment models for post-acute settings.

APTA PT Moves Me Ambassador Network 
Participants in the APTA PT Moves Me Ambassador Network helps APTA spread the word about the profession, the DPT and PTA application process, career opportunities, and more. 

APTA Residency & Fellowship Education Network 
The Residency/Fellowship Education Network is a space to provide valuable resources and discussion related to Residency/Fellowship Education and Accreditation. 

APTA Societies

Societies exclusively comprise individuals who have specific achievement or experience, for the purpose of information sharing and networking among those individuals. Members are automatically joined to a society when they complete a term or earn a status at APTA.

Achievement or experience based.

APTA Society of Association Leadership Scholars Alumni 
The society consists of those who have completed the APTA Centennial Scholars Program or the APTA Association Leadership Scholars Program.

APTA Society of Board of Directors Alumni 
The society consists of those who have served on the APTA Board of Directors.

APTA Society of Catherine Worthingham Fellows 
The society consists of all current Catherine Worthingham Fellows of APTA

APTA Collaborations

Collaborations comprise APTA member representatives from within a selected organization for the purpose of information sharing and networking. Collaboration members represent the organization from which they were selected for their roles.

Collaboration members act as the liaison between APTA national and their organization by sharing information and promoting initiatives.

Member representatives from organizations.

APTA Collaborative for Physical Therapy Education 
Collaborative representatives are dedicated to A Vision for Excellence in Physical Therapy Education to effect meaningful change in physical therapy education and advance the profession and societal health outcomes.