2024 Annual Conference

7:00 AM

Registration, Exhibitors, Breakfast, & Poster Setup

Room

Room 304C

Room 310

Room 325

Room 104

8:00 - 9:30am

If You're Not at the Table, You're on the Menu:  How State Laws Dictate  Physical Therapist practice and What You  Can Do About It

Maryclaire Capetta, PT, DPT, FAAOMPT        
Michael Gans, PT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT 

Introduction to Advanced  Strain and Counterstrain for  the Autonomic Nervous System - An Integrated Systems Approach from Integrative Manual Therapy  (IMT)

Thomas A. Giammatteo, DC, PT, Ph.D., IMTC

Is it Autism: Differential  Diagnosis and Management  from a Physical Therapy Perspective

Mary Elizabeth Parker, PT, PhD, PCS

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for the Physical Therapist: Theory and Clinical  Application

Andrew Sullivan, PT, DPT, ScD, OCS, SCS, FAAOMPT   
Dustin Willis, PT, DPT, PhD(c), OCS, FAAOMPT, TPS
Ryan Solorzano, SPT
Sabrina Balducci, SPT

9:30 – 11:00am

Exhibitor Hour & Posters
Room 304AB
(Chair Yoga Offered 10:30-10:45- location TBD)

11:00 – 12:00pm

Pathway to Wellness:  Enough Talk, Take Action

Michelle E. Wormley, MPT, PhD, CLT
Kristin A. Schweizer PT, DPT     
Joanne Johnson Krasnow PT, MA, DPT, CLT-LANA

High Intensity Gait Training  and Exercise with individuals  with neurologic dysfunction  and significant motor impairment

Mary Gannotti, PT, PhD
Chase Cole, SPT
Bethany Ladd, SPT
Leila Miller, SPT

Closing the Gap: Revolutionizing Our Approach  to Diastasis Recti

Danielle Dunn, PT, DPT, OCS, MTC

It May Be Their Meds: The  Role of the Physical Therapist  in Deprescribing

Karen Blood, PT, DPT, DHSc

12:15 – 1:00pm

Katherine Harris Keynote Address
Ballroom

1:00 – 2:30pm

Lunch, Annual Meeting & Awards Presentation
Ballroom

2:30 – 3:30pm

Optimizing Patient  Care: How AI is Transforming Physical  Therapy

Neeraj Baheti, PT, DPT, SCS, OCS
Chaitali Ahya, PT, DPT

The Golden Years of Shoulder Care: Balancing Interventions for Atraumatic Rotator Cuff Tears in Seniors

Kaleigh Chen PT, DPT
Thomas Cunningham PT, DPT

Differential Diagnosis in Children with Multisystem Involvement: A Physical  Therapy Perspective

Mary Elizabeth Parker, PT, PhD, PCS

Managing the Unique Challenges Associated with  Recovery from Critical Illness

Jim Smith, PT, DPT, MA, FAPTA

3:30 - 3:45pm

Afternoon Break and Snack
(Chair Yoga Offered 3:30-3:45- location TBD)

3:45 - 4:45pm                                                                                                  

Is it Harassment or the  Disease Process?

Rebecca Slocum, PT, DPT, RAC-CTA, CDP and Jennifer Rucci, MA, CCC-SLP

Engagement and Motivation  in Rehabilitation Across the  Lifespan

Cristina Colon-Semenza, PT, MPT, PhD
Sudha Srinivasan, PT, PhD
Vaishnavi Shahane, PT
Paria Darbandsari, PT

Physical Therapy as a  Catalyst to Address Health  Disparities Experienced by  Adults with Cerebral Palsy

Mary Gannotti, PT, PhD

Integrating Mindfulness in  Post op Surgery Patients

Monica Jain, PT, DPT