ASSOCIATION OF DOCTORAL PROGRAMS IN HEALTH SCIENCES
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The Association of Schools Advancing Health Professions (ASAHP) is proud to announce that five of its members have been recognized with its Fellows Award.
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Renée J. Bogschutz, PhD, CCC-SLP, FNAP, Texas Tech University Health Science Center
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Michael Lehker, PhD, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
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Timothy A. Reistetter, PhD, OTR, FAOTA, The University of Texas at San Antonio School of Health Professions
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Elizabeth Swann, PhD, ATC, FNAP, Nova Southeastern University
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Genevieve Pinto Zipp, PT, EdD, FNAP, Seton Hall University
This important award provides meaningful recognition to those members who have contributed significantly to health professions as administrators, educators, clinicians, or researchers. Recipients must be an active ASAHP member for five years with demonstrated leadership, publication in professional journals and professional creativity.
The Fellows will be recognized and inducted during ASAHP’s Annual Conference “Harmonizing the Future of Health Professions Education” which is scheduled for October 27-29, 2026, at the Embassy Suites by Hilton in Nashville, Tennessee. The Awards Ceremony will take place on Wednesday, October 28 at 10:45 AM (CT) and all conference attendees are invited to attend. Following the Awards Ceremony, there will be an invite-only Fellows Luncheon, where the new Fellows will be inducted.
Association Members Publish Article on the Scholar-Practitioner Identity
The Association of Doctoral Programs in Health Sciences (ADPHS) was informally established in November 2019, officially incorporated in August 2021, and is currently a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization comprised of the directors of member doctoral programs of health sciences. The ADPHS grew from informal discussions among program directors who agreed that a major problem in the field of doctoral education in health sciences was the lack of a clearly defined and easily articulable identity. The discussions led to the drafting of an informal and nonscientific survey used to help clarify the current health sciences education environment, relevant emerging trends, and the educational philosophies adopted by the directors of health sciences doctoral programs nationally. The results of the survey and follow-up discussions revealed a strong consensus among program directors that the field of doctorate education in health sciences is uniformly characterized by its interdisciplinary nature. In this position paper, we provide the rationale for the formal position of the ADPHS that the identity of the field of doctoral education in health sciences is based on its interdisciplinary approach to education.
