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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 Honorary Membership category is reserved for those who are not licensed as physical therapist professionals but have made significant measurable and profound contributions to the profession as a whole.

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This award is annually presented to a PT member who has demonstrated clinical expertise and significant contributions to the physical therapy profession.

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The Mary McMillan Lecture is the most distinguished honor an active APTA member physical therapist or life member can receive.

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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 PTA student educators who have demonstrated and exhibited a noteworthy level of commitment to physical therapy education, PTA students, and in advancing, promoting, and upholding standards of academic excellence.

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This award is for a PT or individual not eligible for APTA membership who has been actively engaged in formal physical therapy education for a period of 2-5 years via full-time academic appointment.

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This award recognizes programs accredited by the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education that have successfully demonstrated ongoing initiatives to assist minority students for at least 3 consecutive years.

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This award honors a PT in a site coordinator of clinical education or clinical instructor role who has been actively engaged in clinical teaching at entry or advanced levels of physical therapy education for a minimum of 5 years.

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This award honors individual achievements in the areas of patient care, community service, and commitment toward the profession and association.

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 a PT/PTA team whose positive work has contributed to the delivery of high-quality physical therapist services.

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This award honors individuals who exemplify the compassionate nature of the physical therapy profession by actively expressing a commitment to humanity and exhibiting admirable degrees of selflessness in addressing key health concerns.

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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 honors physical therapist members or physical therapist life members whose contributions to APTA are of exceptional quality.

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This award specifically recognizes individuals who exemplify the compassionate nature of the physical therapy profession by exhibiting a distinguished commitment toward philanthropic initiatives, raising public awareness on key societal issues, and demonstrating how physical therapy can be applied to address these issues.

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This award honors an individual held in high regard by their peers for distinguished leadership and significant contributions to the physical therapy profession and the association.

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This award honors a PT who has been actively engaged in writing and publishing professional literature pertaining to the physical therapy profession for at least 10 years.

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This award recognizes an author or team whose published work in PTJ: Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Journal presents innovative study or a theoretical model and discussion of its impact on future clinical practice or physical therapy research.

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This award recognizes an author or team whose research and discussion published in the association's journal, PTJ: Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Journal, has made a measurable contribution to the knowledge base of physical therapy.

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This award recognizes published authors in PTJ: Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Journal whose writing excellence is demonstrated in a unique contribution or a series of profound articles that have broadened perspectives within a content area.

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This award honors an author or team whose published study in PTJ: Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Journal presents novel and innovative research related to patient care and advances clinical science as it pertains to the physical therapy profession.

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This award recognizes PTs who have engaged in independent or collaborative research efforts within 10 years of completing their most recent physical therapist professional degree, post-professional doctoral degree (other than a transition DPT degree), or post-professional doctoral fellowship.

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This award honors an individual who has sustained outstanding clinical and educational research pertaining to the physical therapy profession for at least 10 years through published scientific studies and has demonstrated continuity of professional commitment to physical therapy.

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This award is presented to an APTA member who has made significant contributions to APTA's federal government affairs efforts and has shown exemplary leadership in furthering the association's objectives.

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This award recognizes individuals who have demonstrated distinctive support for the physical therapy profession at a national level.

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 recognizes students within 12 months of completing all requirements for graduation who exhibit superior scholastic ability and potential for future professional contribution.

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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.

This award recognizes and facilitates the diversity of our society in the profession of physical therapy. The award is an opportunity to increase the diversity of the physical therapy profession as well as foster inclusion and belongingness in the profession.