- 2008 Clinical Educator of the Year Awards
- Housing Opportunities Needed For Physical Therapy Students
- OPTA Emerging Student Leader Program

Clinical Educator of the Year Awards

By Becca Reisch, PT, DPT, OCS with Jane Cedar, PT, MS

Pacific University and MHCC have joined together to create a program to acknowledge and honor the outstanding contributions that PTs and PTAs in the community make toward the education of our students. While we value all of the contributions made by individuals toward the successful education of PTs & PTAs, we would like to specifically recognize individuals who go above and beyond the basic requirements.

MHCC PTA students and faculty felt honored to present the first annual MHCC PTA Clinical Educator of the Year Award to Lyle Phelps, PTA. Since graduating from the MHCC PTA Program in 1973, Lyle has provided countless patients with excellent and compassionate care, and numerous students with invaluable clinical education. He has been exemplary at providing all with “unconditional positive regard,” regardless of the individual’s abilities or circumstances.

Pacific University presented the PT Clinical Educator of the Year Award to Katy Wert, PT. Katy is a Pacific University alumnus who works in the acute care setting at OHSU.
She has served as a clinical instructor to multiple students over the years, and she excels in teaching students with various learning styles, strengths, and interests.

It is clinicians such as Lyle and Katy who complete students’ education, make the academic education of PTA and PT students come alive, and who help to turn good students into great clinicians. Their ongoing clinical excellence, as well as their compassionate spirits, truly bring alive the concept of physical therapy as the “Art and Science of Healing.”

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Housing Opportunities Needed For Physical Therapy Students

Remember being a student on a clinical rotation? Was it difficult to find housing? Or did someone help you out? We are looking for individuals who would be willing to host physical therapy students during their clinical rotations. Rotations vary in length, and they occur throughout the year. The particulars regarding cost and availability can be worked out with the students on an individual basis. Maybe you don’t have a spare room to let, but you would be willing to talk with students regarding local attractions and/or other furnished housing opportunities in your area. Either way, let’s network to help the next generation of PT’s!

Click here (PDF) for more information and a form to fill out and send in.

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2008 Emerging Leader Award Recipients

Joshua Zavertnik, SPT of Pacific

Lindsey Twiss, SPTA of MHCC

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