Charge:

Responsible to the ACAPT Board of Directors for the overall planning and implementation of the strategic initiatives noted above. The primary intent is to increase leadership skills for ACAPT's stakeholders and recognize the role of leadership in healthcare and secondarily, the development of leadership in students.  

•  Stephanie Kelly, PT, PhD, University of Indianapolis
• Amy Heath, PT, DPT, PhD, Western Michigan University
• Alexis "Alex" Ortiz, PT, PhD, University of the Incarnate Word
• Dawn Kelly James, PT, PhD, Arkansas Colleges of Health Education
• Harsha Deoghare, PT, PhD, Western University of Health Sciences-California
• Judi Schack-Dugre, PT, DPT, EdD, University of Florida
• Dawn Brown, PT, DPT, EdD, MPT, Governors State University

The Leadership Oversight Committee oversees the subcommittees below, which provide leadership training and resources for physical therapy administrators, faculty, and students as a member benefit at low or no cost that are contemporary, visionary, open and inclusive to encourage participation.

Charge:

• Identify available leadership resources for the ACAPT Leadership Academy (ALA) Compass, including but not limited to, websites, publications, people, workshops, and programs.
• Identify a source, fee, and usefulness rating of each resource that can be shared with stakeholders.
• Perform ongoing review and monitoring of resources and update as needed

Mark Bowden, PT, PhD, Medical University of South Carolina
Denise Gobert, PT, DPT, PhD, Texas State University
Nichole Adyemi, Mercy College

Charge:

• Identify ways to target students with leadership activities and work with students to identify academic roles as career paths and encourage students to consider PhD programs.
• Identify other possibilities and plans to incorporate leadership development for students at the national level. 

• Carrie Hawkins, PT, DPT, PhD, Whitworth University
• Lauren Petrisin, University of Central Arkansas 
• Amy McMillan, PT, PhD, East Carolina University
• Brian Stoltenberg, PT, DPT, Rockhurst University
• Zaryna Sanchez, Mercy University
• Kenneth Wessel, Clinical Affiliate

If you are interested in joining this group, please email ala@acapt.org.

Charge:

Design a series of Leadership Development Summits to empower faculty and program leadership to create vision, plan for change, develop resources to support new initiatives, and effect promotion and growth in the academy.

• Chair - Janette Scardillo, PT, DPT, Director of Clinical Education, University of Scranton
• Marcia Himes, PT, DPT, Assistant Professor, Missouri State University
• Michelle Mulhall, Main Line Health
• Paula Smith, PT, DPT, Clinical Assistant Professor, Director of Clinical Education, University of Vermont
• Ramona Carper, University of Kentucky

Charge:

• Identify the needs and content for curriculum based on various stakeholders including students, faculty, clinicians, universities, organizations, and PT professionals.
• Design, identify speakers, develop an implementation timeline, and deliver content consistent with the ACAPT Leadership Compass.
• Utilize the framework for excellence as a roadmap for leadership development at academic and clinical settings.

• chair -- Sarah Keller, Midwestern University
• Lois Stickley, Texas State University
• Kathleen Fortier, Arcadia University
• Paula Smith, University of Vermont
• Ramona Carper, University of Kentucky
• Marcia Himes, Missouri State University
• Michelle Mulhall, Main Line Health: Bryn Mawr Rehabilitation Hospital
• ALA Oversight Committee Liaison -- Judi Schack-Dugre, University of Florida