APTA Combined Sections Meeting 2025
Welcome! Explore this page for some of the activites the Programs in Physical Therapy faculty, students, alumni, and our clinical partners at New York Presbyterian will be participating in at the APTA Combined Sections Meeting in Houston this February.
Please find our speakers and schedule below. Kindly be aware that this schedule will undergo additional updates as we approach CSM 2025.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12th
McMillan Lecture and APTA Specialty and Proficiency Ceremony:
7:30 - 9:00PM
Julia Feng (Newly Certified GCS)
Richard Ellsworth (Newly Certified GCS)
Location: General Assembly Theater ABC (Level Three, GRB Convention Center)
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13th
PANELIST:
8:00AM
Waving Yellow Flags, Practicing Psychologically Informed Physical Therapy with Culturally Competent Humility
Colleen M. Brough
Location: GRB Convention Center, Room 320
PLATFORM PRESENTATION:
11:00 - 1:00PM
Function and Fitness, Not Fatigability is Associated With Muscle Quality in Ambulant SMA
Lewis Samuel Rosenberg, Sabrina Wu, Megan Campbell Seymour, David Uher, Lisa H. Yoon, Cara H. Kanner, Rafael Saneliz Rodriguez-Torres, Michael Johnson, Hana Azizi and Jacqueline Montes
Location: Hilton Americas, Meeting Room #339
POSTER SESSIONS:
1:00 - 3:00PM
1380 - Accessibility of Physical Therapy Care within Collegiate Dance Programs
Kavita Sarathy, Juan C. De La Rosa Calvo, Gabriella R. Gavazzi, Haley C. Loeffler, Emma Scholz, and Laurel Daniels Abbruzzese
Location: (Level One, GRB Convention Center)
1429 - Blood Lactate As a Potential Biomarker for Exercise Intolerance in Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Holley Nitsberg, Kelsey J. Kocher, Cara H. Kanner, Rafael Saneliz Rodriguez-Torres, David Uher, Lisa H. Yoon, Hana Azizi and Jacqueline Montes
Location: Exhibit Hall E (Level One, GRB Convention Center)
1244 - Early Mobilization of a Patient with Subarachnoid Hemorrhage and Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy
Madeline Arena
Location: Exhibit Hall E (Level One, GRB Convention Center)
1376 - Pain with Relevé: A Non-Operative Approach Beyond the TCJ to the Accessory Navicular
Meredith Craig, Christopher K. Wong, Michael R. Johnson
Location: Exhibit Hall E (Level One, GRB Convention Center)
PLATFORM PRESENTATION:
3:00 - 5:00PM
A Competency-Based Curriculum Developed to Entrust Students in Essential Physical Therapy Activities with Running Athletes
Colleen M. Brough, Martha Machet Sliwinski, Andrea N. Boe, Anna Katherine George, Marjorie Gross, Nathaniel Serrurier, Annina Zelkin
Location: Hilton Americas, Meeting Room #335
The Master Adaptive Learner Behavioral Assessment Scale: Its Development, Content Validity, Feasibility and Acceptability
Wing Fu, Tricia Rogers Prokop and Rosa Elena Torres-Panchame
Location: Meeting Room #335 (Level Three, Hilton Americas)
EDUCATION SESSION: 3:00 - 5:00PM
Entrance into Practice Performance Outcomes in Physical Therapy: The Full Framework
Jean Fitzpatrick, Gail M. Jensen, Traci Lynn Norris
Location: Ballroom of the Americas EF (Level Two, Hilton Americas)
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14th
POSTER SESSIONS:
1:00 - 3:00PM
2344- Dance intervention for people with Huntington's disease: Pilot feasibility study
Ashwini K. Rao, Paul Dennis, Mairav Aloni, Emily Richards, Zoe Oron, Kelly Muntzenberger, Madeline Spence, Julia Radick, Corey Landis
Location: Exhibit Hall E (Level One, GRB Convention Center)
2467 - Inter-Limb Asymmetries Influence Change of Direction Speed in Collegiate Male and Female Fencers
Bilal Aburub, Amanda Eng, Brianna Scollan, Yuwei Ye, Jean Fitzpatrick, Michael Johnson, Rami Said
Location: Exhibit Hall E (Level One, GRB Convention Center)
2145 - Physical Therapist Student and Clinical Instructor Perceptions of the Clinical Performance Instrument 3.0 (CPI 3.0)
Ruth Hansen, Danielle Struble-Fitzsimmons, Kathryn Ryans
Location: Exhibit Hall E (Level One, GRB Convention Center)
PLATFORM PRESENTATION:
3:00 - 5:00PM
Psychosocial Outcomes of Adapted and Inclusive Youth Sport Participation: A Systematic Review
Kassandra Harrelson, Rebecca Herrick, Cameron Salvon-Harman, Samanatha Sawade
Location: Room 350 DEF (Level Three, GRB Convention Center)
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PROGRAMS IN PHYSICAL THERAPY CSM ALUMNI EVENT - 5:30 - 7:30PM
The Rustic
1836 Polk Street
Houston, Texas 77003
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15th
PLATFORM SESSION:
8:00 - 10:00AM
46573 - Global Prosthetic Prescription Rates after Major Lower Extremity Amputations in Dysvascular Populations: A Scoping Review
Andre Janums, Christina Shimoda, Emma Steel, Kevin Wong
POSTER SESSION:
1:00 - 3:00PM
3025 - Early rehabilitation for individuals with severe disorders of consciousness
Lorenzo Casertano, Vedant Kansara, Qi Shen, Satoshi Egawa, Angela Velazquez, Jerina Carmona, You Lim Song, Clare Bassile, Ashwini K. Rao, Jan Claassen
Location: Exhibit Hall E (Level One, GRB Convention Center)