The Corinne Ellingham Outstanding Service Award honors an APTA MN member who has demonstrated consistent service to physical therapy, beyond that inherent in being a member of the profession. The nominee typically will have contributed heavily in physical therapy education, clinical research, patient care services, and to the APTA or its components.
View this award’s criteria and submit a nomination.
2023: Lori Froehling, PT, MS
2022: Dr. Terese Chmielewski, PT, PhD, SCS and David A. Krause, PT, DSc, MBA
2021: Lynn Tanner, PT
2020: Kathleen Anderson, PhD, MBA, PT, OCS, FAAOMPT
2019: Jeff Vrudny, PT, MBA
2018: Rachel Galligan, PT, DPT, CLT, Lana Schultz Krumwiede, PT, DPT, OCS, Amanda Simone, DPT, CLT-LANA, Rebecca Vogsland, PT, DPT, OCS
2017: Malcolm R. Macaulay, PT, MS
2016: Joan Purrington, PT, DPT, MA
2015: James W. Matheson PT, DPT, MS, OCS, SCS, CSCS
2013: Eva Norman, PT, DPT, CEEAA
2012: James Youdas, PT & Debra Sellheim
2010: Jon Nordrum, PT
2009: Melanie Brennan, PT
2008: Becky Olson-Kellogg, PT
2007: Dan Wolfe, PT
2005: Nancy Appel, PT
2004: Krista Coleman, PT
2003: Kathleen Picard, PT
2002: Marianne Lukan, PT
2001: Mark Bookhout, PT & Stephanie Lunning, PT
2000: Rick Olson, PT
1999: Joan Bohmert, PT
1998: Thomas Holtackers, PT
1997: Carolyn Fiterman, PT
1996: Dave Thoreson, PT
1995: Glenn Scudder, PT
1994: Peter Polga, PT
1993: Dennis Isernhagen, PT
1992: Susan Sisola, PT
1991: Barbara Baum, PT
1990: Jack Allison, PT
1989: Marilyn Woods, PT
1988: Tom Garrett, PT
1987: Lori Dahl, PT & Judy Hawley, PTA
1986: Patricia Montgomery, PT
1984: Kathleen Fleischacker, PT
1983: Corinne Ellingham, PT
1982: Marlene Deschler, PT
