Susan Englert Shutrump, OTR/L is the President of Susan Shutrump Consulting, LLC and the recently retired Supervisor of Occupational and Physical Therapy Services for the Trumbull County ESC.  She has more than 40 years’ experience in providing therapy services including coordinating the development of individualized transportation plans for students with special needs. She received the Peter J Grandolfo Memorial Award of Excellence in 2018 and the National Association of Pupil Transportation Sure-Lok Safe and Secure Special Needs Transportation Award in 2007. She is a Certified Child Passenger Safety Technician. She served on the NHTSA original curriculum writing committee for “Child Safety Restraint Systems on School Buses”, as well as all subsequent revision committees including being a National Subject Matter Expert on the 2023 revised curriculum. She served as Special Advisor to the STARTS (Students Transportation Aligned for Return to School) National Task Force during the Covid-19 pandemic. She is a tenured faculty and advisory board member of the National Conference and Exhibition on Transporting Students with Disabilities and Preschoolers, serving as co-chairman of the OT/PT/Transporter Forum since 1995. She has authored articles in therapy and transportation publications, and chapters, “Best Practices in Safe Transportation,” in the first two editions of (AOTA textbook) Best Practices for Occupational Therapy in Schools.

Dr. Megan Roberts is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics of the College of Medicine at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC) where she directs the Oklahoma Interdisciplinary Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and related Disabilities (LEND) program. Dr. Roberts was a Board-Certified Clinical Specialist in Pediatric Physical Therapy, an Assistive Technology Professional, and a member of the Specialization Academy of Content Experts for Pediatric Physical Therapy. She worked as a school-based physical therapist, where she chaired the PT/OT department and developed a district-wide Assistive Technology program As the OKLEND Program Director, Dr. Roberts prepares future service providers and advocates in disability related fields. She provides technical assistance to community organizations, state agencies, and national agencies to improve systems, policies, services, and research, with a goal of improving community participation, independence, and self-direction for individuals with disabilities and their families.

Laurie Ray has 25 years of experience in school-based physical therapy practice in North Carolina. Dr. Ray has served North Carolina as the Physical Therapy Consultant for NC Department of Public Instruction (NC DPI) since 2005, Medicaid Consultant since 2006 and serves as Adapted Physical Education Liaison. The NC School-based PT website offers many helpful resources and is utilized by school-based practitioners across NC, as well as nationally and internationally.

She received her MPT and PhD (Special Education focus) from UNC Chapel Hill. She is an Associate Professor in the Division of Physical Therapy at UNC-Chapel Hill, teaching in the DPT program and Pediatric Residency. Laurie was a founding officer of the APTA NC Pediatric SIG and served as Communication Chair. For the APTA Academy of Pediatric Physical Therapy, she served as Special Interest Groups (SIGs) Leadership Coordinator, Coordinator of the Innovations in School-based PT Annual Conference (10 yrs), Region V Representative, Chair of the School SIG (6 yrs) and on the Policy, Payment and Advocacy Committee.

Dr. Ray previously served on the Boards of the National Alliance of Medicaid in Education and the NC Vocational Rehabilitation Council. Laurie co-founded www.seekfreaks.com, a web-based resource that reaches across the US and internationally to support best practice for related services, evidence-based practice, and knowledge translation. Dr. Ray’s expertise on: school and pediatric practice of physical therapy, Medicaid cost recovery for public schools, anti-discrimination law, ethics, adapted physical education, and related topics, is highly sought across the US. She is a reviewer for Pediatric Physical Therapy and on the editorial board for Pediatric Occupational and Physical Therapy.

Dr. Heather Brossman, PT, DPT, DHSc, MS, is an Assistant Clinical Professor at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. She teaches pediatrics and is a board- certified pediatric clinical specialist. Her practice area is school-based services with a specialty for children with multiple disabilities. Dr. Brossman is currently the Region IV representative for the school-based physical therapy special interest group of the APTA Academy of Pediatric Physical Therapy and a clinical director for Special Olympics of Pennsylvania. She is the Director for the Good Shepard/Drexel University pediatric physical therapy residency. Her scholarship includes participation for children with physical and intellectual disabilities in preschool, at home, and the community.

Dr. Lisa Ann Chiarello, PT, PhD, FAPTA is a Professor and Executive Program Director of the DPT Program at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA and an associate member of CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research. Her research agenda includes the areas of pediatric community-based service delivery, engagement of families and children in rehabilitation, and participation of children with physical disabilities in home, school, and community. Dr. Chiarello has a long-standing record of national and internation presentations and has been a committed advocate for family-centered care and collaborative practices. She has conducted federally funded, multi-site research. Dr. Chiarello has had several leadership roles in the APTA Academy of Pediatric Physical Therapy. She is invested in mentoring others and promoting the translation of research knowledge to practice.

Rachel Miller, MPH is a health policy and payment specialist at APTA. In this role, Rachel advocates to federal regulators on policy issues that affect the physical therapy profession. Before joining the association, she completed her master's degree in health policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While continuing her education, Rachel showed community members how to obtain health insurance as Certified Application Counselor in a student-run clinic. Before that, she helped stop the spread of COVID-19 as a case investigator at a local health department. She obtained her bachelor's degree from the University of South Florida.