RIPPT holds elections in the spring-summer during the ACAPT election cycle. If you are a RIPPT member, you are registered to vote. If you have not yet joined the RIPPT, do so now by clicking on the "Request to Join" Box above. As with any organization,
formation of a leadership team is representative of its members who vote.
Persons elected to a leadership position serve two-year terms and are expected to attend the annual ACAPT Educational Leadership Conference (ELC), where RIPPT's annual
business meeting will be held.
- May 3, 2021: Polls closed on the first Monday of the month.
- June 2021: Candidates informed of election results. Those elected are encouraged to book their hotel for ELC immediately.
RIPPT members can view the 2021 candidate slate for the positions below. RIPPT members will receive an email with instructions for voting on Monday, April 5. If you don't receive the email, feel free to contact acapt@acapt.org.
- Vice Chair
- Secretary
- Nominating Committee member
Position descriptions
The Vice Chair shall assume the duties of the Chair at the request of the Chair or in the absence or incapacitation of the Chair and oversee RIPPT ad hoc committees or work groups as a voting member. The Vice Chair shall serve as the Parliamentarian
during the meetings at national conferences.
The Secretary shall be responsible for keeping the minutes of all RIPPT meetings of members and/or officers, prepare and submit written reports of the activities of the consortium to the ACAPT Board of Directors, notify members of the date, time
and place of meetings, and make minutes available to membership through the RIPPT page on the ACAPT website.
The Nominating Committee shall consist of three (3) members, each serving two-year terms. The senior member of the committee shall serve as Committee Chair for the last year of her/his term. The nominating committee shall prepare a slate
of one (1) or more names for each office to be filled. The slate (i.e. list of candidates) shall be published on the RIPPT website and distributed to the membership prior to the election. The Nominating Chair will provide the slate, together
with the information on each candidate, at least 30 days in advance of the election. Members of the nominating committee direct and conduct elections by electronic mail. The nominating committee chair notifies the candidates of the results
of the election maintains a record of their consent to service for future considerations and needs that may support the work of the Consortium.
A poll will be sent via email to all registered Research-Intensive Programs in Physical Therapy (RIPPT) consortium members to cast their ballot.
Chair
Deborah Givens, PT, DPT, PhD
Professor and Director
Division of Physical Therapy
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Vice Chair (Chair Elect)
Mary Snyder Shall, PT, PhD
Professor and Chair
Department of Physical Therapy
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Secretary
Stacy L. Fritz, PT, PhD
Professor and Program Director
Physical Therapy Program, Department of Exercise Science
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
Past Chair
Julius P.A. Dewald, PT, PhD
Professor and Chair
Department of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences
Professor in Biomedical Engineering
Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
Nominating Chair
Mary Rodgers, PT, PhD, FAPTA
George R. Hepburn Dynasplint Endowed Professor (Emeritus)
Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences
University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
Darcy Reisman, PT, PhD, from the University of Delaware -- Nominating Committee Member
Jules Dewald, PT, PhD, from Northwestern University -- Nominating Committee Member
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ACAPT Liason
John A. Buford, PT, PhD
Professor and Director
Physical Therapy Division
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH