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Bob Doctor
2006 PT Service Awards
This award, named for
a dear friend of many here today and one of the most fantastic
Colorado Chapter volunteers of all time, recognizes APTA members
for their valuable and exceptional service to the APTA/Colorado
Chapter.
Today we will confer
that honor on five chapter members:
Kim Bozich
Scott Alwin
Hugh Simson
Mary Jane Chavez
Margaret Schenkman
-- Kim Bozich --
Our first Bob Doctor
award recipient knows the value of political action at the
statehouse. In fact, she understands that grass roots politics
starts well before the elections ... from attending your local
precinct caucus, to donating to your favorite candidate's
campaign fund, to volunteering to walk door to door for your
candidate, and then with your trip to the polling place. This
physical therapist walks her political talk. As chair of the
Colorado PT Political Action Committee and long time member of
the Chapter's Government Affairs Committee, she offers advice
and encouragement to others in the profession who would like to
become politically active and she often begs for money to
support the PAC so we can support candidates who support our
causes.
A graduate of Regis
University, Kim Bozich worked for five years at Denver Physical
Therapy where she was clinical director for three. She's
currently enrolled in the Transitional DPT program at Regis and
taking a sabbatical from work for a short time to spend more
time with her children, ages 2 and 4.
Congratulations and
thank you Kim Bozich for showing us the way to the State Capitol
on East Colfax - where public policy decisions are made on a
daily basis - many of which affect physical therapists and our
profession.
-- Scott Alwin --
Rural Colorado
struggles to attract and retain health care professionals, but
was indeed lucky when this young man decided to put down roots
in the community
 of
Burlington. As Rehab Director of Kit Carson County Memorial
Hospital, this physical therapist knows how to make things
happen in his small, eastern plains department.
The next recipient of
the Bob Doctor Award is a born organizer. Just a few short weeks
after being elected in 2002 as Chair of the sprawling Southeast
District, Scott Alwin had decided when and where to hold a
district-wide event, drawing many to an outstanding program.
Quality programming and higher attendance have continued to this
day. He didn't just re-vitalize the district --- he lit a fire
that refuses to be extinguished.
Scott started his
career as a PT Assistant in Ulysses, Kansas, went on to obtain a
Masters in PT from Des Moines University, and is currently
working on his Masters in Health Service Administration through
Regis University.
Congratulations and
thank you Scott Alwin for all you do for your profession.
-- Hugh Simson --
He came from the
North and will return to the North. But while he was here he
contributed greatly to the Colorado Chapter. Our next Bob Doctor
Award recipient arrived in Colorado in 2003 to start his
physical therapy career at the
 world-renowned
Craig Hospital. He had just received his Masters in PT from the
University of Vermont following completion of a bachelors in
Human Kinetics from the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario,
Canada.
It didn't take long
for Hugh Simson to volunteer for the Chapter's Education /
Professional Development Committee where for three years he
rounded up speakers, made arrangements for seminar logistics,
advise on course content, and always raised his hand when
something needed to be done.
He will soon leave
his position as physical therapist and marketing manager for
Active Motion Physical Therapy in Denver to return home to
Canada with his fiancé Leslie McCracken, PT.
Hugh, we're glad you
spent some time with us, we wish you well, and remember the door
back to Colorado will always be open. Congratulations and thank
you, Hugh Simson.
-- Mary Chavez --
There aren't many
members in this sector of the profession in Colorado, but the
 next
Bob Doctor award recipient will never give up on encouraging her
fellow physical therapist assistants to join and become active
in the APTA - the association that represents them and their
profession.
Her work begins in
the classroom at Pueblo Community College where students study
to become PTAs. As Chair of the PTA SIG, Mary Chavez constantly
works to increase PTA involvement in the association and to help
meet the needs of the PTAs in the state of Colorado.
After obtaining her
Bachelor's degree in Biology, Mary went on to become a Physical
Therapist Assistant. She has been a member of the APTA since
1986 and is a tremendous asset to the Colorado Chapter as a
member of the board, as an outstanding PTA faculty member, and
as a passionate supporter of the profession.
It is with great
pleasure to provide Mary Chavez with this award.
-- Margaret
Schenkman --
The University of
Colorado PT Program will be the best in the country if the
vision of this Bob Doctor Award recipient comes true. And in her
short time as
 director
of the program, she has shown us that anything is possible!
In 2005, under her
helm, CU graduated the 57th class of physical therapists, with a
total of 1,870 entry-level graduates since the program began in
1948. Also, in 2005, CU successfully completed the first year of
the DPT program and the t-DPT is in full swing. She is proud to
tell anyone who will listen that her program contains four
integrated elements: patient centered care; the doctoring
profession; critical thinking / evidence based care; and
movement science.
In a very quiet, yet
determined way, Margaret Schenkman gets things done.
When she learned that
the Chapter's Education Committee needed ideas for nationally
known speakers, she attended a meeting and promised to help.
Upon learning that not many faculty members were active in
association committees, she made sure that a CU faculty member
serves on every committee of the association. Upon learning that
the association had not held a conference at CU for many years
due to space problems, she made sure that we had access to this
wonderful facility we are using today, with all space and AV and
parking complimentary of CU.
A PT graduate of
Boston University, Margaret earned her PhD from Yale University.
She brings national recognition to the state through her grant
from the National Institutes of Health studying exercise
interventions for people with Parkinson's disease. She
participated in the World Parkinson Congress in Washington, DC,
followed by a briefing on the subject with congressional
staffers.
Congratulations
Margaret and thank you for the energy and commitment that you
have brought to CU and to the Colorado Chapter. |