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Section on Geriatrics Awards

The Section on Geriatrics sponsors several awards to recognize outstanding achievement in geriatric physical therapy research and practice.

Previous SOG Award Winners
APTA Awards
Signe Brunnstrom: Excellence in Clinical Teaching
Baethke-Carlin Award: Excellence in Academic Teaching
Lucy Blair Service Award
Eugene Michels New Investigator Award
Helen Hislop Award: Contributions to Professional Literature
Catherine Worthingham Fellowship
APTA Awards Information

2007 Award Winners

Adopt A Doc: Jennifer A Mai, PT, DPT, MHS; Ann H. Newstead, PT, MS, GCS, NCS; Jaime Berlin Talkowski, MPT
Clinical Excellence in Geriatrics: L. Gail Denber, PT
Outstanding PTA: Lois Armour, PTA, MA, ATRIC
Distinguished Educator: Dale Avers, PT, DPT, PhD; Mary Thompson, PT, PhD, GCS
President’s Award: Mary Thompson, PT, PhD, GCS; Richard Bohannon, PT, EdD, NCS, FAPTA
Joan Mills: Carol Schunk, PT, PsyD
2007 Poster Award: Age-related effects of a cognitive task on frontal plane stability during narrow-base walking; Authors: Valerie E. Kelly, Matthew Schrager, Robert Price, Luigi Ferrucci, Anne Shumway-Cook; Institution: Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington: Kelly, Price and Shumway-Cook Clinical Research Branch, National Institute on Aging: Schrager and Ferrucci
Excellence in Research: Dr. Julie M. Whitman, PT, DSc, OCS
Student Award for Geriatric Research: Lisa Graves, PT

 

2006 Award Winners

Adopt A Doc: Tiffany E. Shubert, Sharon L. Gorman, Michael L. Puthoff, Martha Acosta, Kristin Lowry, Kerstin M. Palombaro
Fellowship for Geriatric Research: Jason Hardage
Clinical Excellence in Geriatrics: Reenie Euhardy, Ellen Strunk
Clinical Educator: Cathy Ciolek
President's Award: Cathy Ciolek
Distinguished Educator: Bill Staples
Joan Mills: Kathy Brewer

2005 Award Winners

Adopt A Doc: Wendy Katzman, Michael Puthoff ,Tiffany Shubert, Brian Wrotniak
Fellowship for Geriatric Research:
Shuo-Hsiu James Chang
Clinical Excellence in Geriatrics:
Jennifer Sidelinker
Distinguished Educator:
Charity Johannson, Mike Moran
Joan Mills:
Judy Canfield

2004 Award Winners

Adopt A Doc: Meredith Edwards, Tiffany Shubert, Brian Wrotniak
Excellence in Research: Mark Rogers, Lola Sicard-Rosenbaum
Fellowship for Geriatric Research: Allon Goldberg
Student Award for Geriatric Research: Stephanie Covert
Clinical Excellence in Geriatrics: Tim Kauffman
Clinical Educator: Susan Wenker
Distinguished Educator: Kathleen Kline Mangione
Lynn Phillippi Award: Janet Duttarer
Outstanding PTA Award: Teri Ryan
Volunteers In Action: Judy Canfield
Joan Mills: Marilyn Miller

2003 Award Winners

Clinical Excellence in Geriatrics: Donna Silsbee
Distinguished Educator: Michelle Lusardi
Joan Mills Award: Anne Coffman
Volunteers In Action: Sandra Levi
President’s Award: Joan M. Mills, Osa Jackson-Schulte, Bette Horstman, Clara Bright, Steve Gudas, Carole Lewis, Neva F. Greenwald, Dale Avers, Mary Ann Wharton, Tim Kauffman, Fran Kern, Jane King, Rita A. Wong, Michael Moran, LaDora Thompson, John O. Barr, Michelle Lusardi, Anne Coffman, Patricia Galileo, Carol M. Davis, Mary Beth Brown, Bonnie Teschendorf, Inez Peacock, Evie Hallas, Mary Lou Barnes, Marilyn Miller, Carole Schunk, Ruth U. Mitchell, In Memoriam Lynn Phillipi
Adopt A Doc: Celinda Evitt, Katy Mitchell, Brian Wrotniak

 

2002 Award Winners

Clinical Excellence in Geriatrics Award: Lucy Buckley, PT
Geriatrics Distinguished Educator Award: Carol Davis, PT
Joan M. Mills Award: Mary Ellen Riordan, PT
Lynn Phillippi Advocacy for Older Adults Award: Carol Probst, PT
President's Award: Fran Kern, PT
Clinical Educator Award:
Becky Olson-Kellogg, PT
Excellence in Geriatric Research:
Gail Deyle, PT, DPT, OCS
Adopt-A-Doc: Julia Chevan, PT, MPH, OCS; Celinda Evitt, PT, MA, GCS

2001 Award Winners

Outstanding Physical Therapist Assistant Award : Jeanne M. Shilts
Clinical Excellence in Geriatrics Award: Sara Mecomber Meeks
Geriatrics Distinguished Educator Award: Rita Wong
Joan M. Mills Award: Michelle Lusardi
Volunteers in Action Award: Mary Ellen Riordan
Lynn Phillippi Advocacy for Older Adults Award: Cathy and Dan Ciolek
Treasured Elders Award: Evie Halas, Inez Peacock

Excellence in Research Award: Marybeth Brown, David Sinacore, Ellen
Binder, Wendy Kohrt
Fellowship for Geriatric Research: Emmy Wheeler
Health and Wellness Promotion Grant: Maryclare b. Krusing, Charles J.
Gulas, Helen H. Host and JoAnna Schroer
Adopt-A-Doc: Celinda Evitt, Julia Chevan

2000 Award Winners

Joan M. Mills Award -- John Barr
Volunteers in Action Award -- Pamela Lyke-Marquez 
Excellence in Research Award -- Alan Jette
 
Adopt-A-Doc -- Susan Gibbons, Jennifer Brach, Laura Adomaitis
 
1999 Award Winners
Joan M. Mills Award -- LaDora Thompson
Clinical Excellence in Geriatrics Award -- Linda Crews
Lynn Phillippi Award -- Carleen Lindsey
Volunteers in Action Award -- None given
Fellowship for Geriatric Research --  None given
Excellence in Research Award -- Julie Chandler, Pam Duncan, et.al.
Student Award for Geriatric Research -- Stephanie Kesterson
Adopt-A-Doc -- Ellen Mitchell, Jennifer Brach, Susan Gibbons
Outstanding PTA -- Judi Pastorin

1998 Award Winners

Joan M. Mills Award -- Jennifer Bottomely

Clinical Excellence in Geriatrics Award -- Chuck Gulas
Lynn Phillippi Award -- Pauline Hamel
Volunteers in Action Award -- Inez Peacock
Fellowship for Geriatric Research -- Denise Fredette and Deb Kegelmeyer
Excellence in Research Award -- Anne Shumway-Cook
Student Award for Geriatric Research -- Ryan Goodwine
Adopt-A-Doc -- Jennifer S. Brach and Ellen Miller Winchell
Outstanding PTA -- None given

1997 Award Winners

Clinical Excellence in Geriatrics Award -- Naomi Pollak
Fellowship for Geriatric Research -- Larry Nosse
Joan M. Mills Award -- Michael Moran
Lynn Phillippi Award -- Laureate Group
Outstanding PTA Award -- Ernestine Wells, PTA
Volunteers in Action Award -- Jennifer Bottomley

1996 Award Winners
Clinical Excellence Award -- Patrice S. Antony
Joan Mills Award -- Rita A. Wong
Lynn Phillippi Award -- Lynn Phillippi
Excellence in Research Award -- Teresa M. Steffen
Outstanding PTA Award -- Paul R. Groseclose
Student Award for Geriatric Research -- Lynn Aley, Susan McCullough, & Michelle Winegardner

1995 Award Winners

Clinical Excellence Award -- Osa Jackson-Wyatt
Joan Mills Award -- Jane Koons
Excellence in Research Award -- Margaret Gottschalk & Marie Koch
Fellowship for Geriatric Research -- Pei-Fang Tan

 Previous recipients

Joan Mills Award -- Joan Mills, Clara Bright, Carole B Lewis, Osa Jackson-Wyatt, Neva Greenwald, Mary Ann Wharton. Tim Kauffman, Dale Avers, Fran Kern, Bette Horstman

 
 
 

 

 

 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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