Honors for physical therapy faculty, students

Faculty members and students in the Department of Physical Therapy have been honored by the American Physical Therapy Association.

Stuart Binder-Macleod, chairperson of the department, and Lynn Snyder-Mackler, professor of physical therapy, were selected as Catherine Worthingham Fellows. The honor is the highest award bestowed by the profession and is especially prestigious because the 70,000-member association has only 60 Fellows.

The selection of Binder-Macleod and Snyder-Mackler, which marked the first time two people from the same institution received the award in the same year, was announced at the association's 2003 annual meeting in Washington, D.C. The award "recognizes those persons whose work ... has resulted in lasting and significant advances in the science, education and practice of the profession of physical therapy," according to the association.

Binder-Macleod joined the UD faculty in 1987 and has been chairperson of the department since 1998. His research focuses on the effects of electrical stimulation parameters on muscle performance.

Snyder-Mackler is a professor of physical therapy and director of the Sports Physical Therapy Clinical Residency Program. She has been a member of the UD faculty since 1989. Her research focuses on knee injuries.

In another presentation at the annual meeting, Adrienne Nicole Green, AS '03M, received the association's Minority Scholarship Award, which recognizes academic excellence, a demonstrated concern for minority issues and the potential for superior professional accomplishments. Green has since completed her master's degree in physical therapy, which was conferred at Winter Commencement in January.

The association also recognized all the department's students for their work in an annual fund-raising drive, the Pittsburgh-Marquette Challenge.