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Meritorious Service Award

Established in 1984

Purpose

The AOTF Board of Trustees seeks to recognize Trustees who have made sustained and exemplary contributions in support of the Foundation's mission.

Click here for a list of all Meritorious Service Award recipients.

Eligibility

Retiring members of the AOTF Board of Trustees and other selected individuals.

Questions

Contact AOTF Awards Program Manager.

Meritorious Service Award Recipients

2023

Felicia Chew, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA, FNAP, President, Integrity Health Solutions, Mount Royal, New Jersey
Donald Fogelberg, PhD, OTR/L, Associate Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington Seattle, Washington
Susan Magasi PhD, MS, BScOT, Associate Professor, Occupational Therapy; Associate Professor, Disability and Human Development; Associate Head, Occupational Therapy, Department of Occupational Therapy and Disability Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Kerri Morgan, PhD, OTR/L, ATP, Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy and Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
Kristie Patten, PhD, OT/L, FAOTA, Vice Dean of Academic Affairs, Professor of Occupational Therapy Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York University, New York, New York

2022

Nancy Baker, ScD, MPH, OTR/L, FAOTA, Tufts University
Simone Gill, PhD, OTR/L, Boston University
Forrest Pendleton, BA
Susan Stark, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA, Washington University School of Medicine
Cheryl Strickland, OTR/L, Choice Rehabilitation

2021

Tara C. Alexander, OTR/L, CPC,
Roger I. Ideishi, JD, OT/L, FAOTA
Mary C. Lawlor, ScD, OTR/L, FAOTA

2020

Elizabeth Francis-Connolly, PhD, OTR, FAOTA
Susan Garber, MA, OTR, FAOTA, FACRM

2019

Bette Bonder, PhD, OTR, FAOTA

2018

Joseph K. Brey, OTD, OTR/L
Mary Ellen Buning, PhD, OTR/L, ATP/SMS
Wendy J. Coster, PhD,OTR/L, FAOTA
Jan Miller Polgar, PhD, OT (Reg (Ont), FCAOT    

2017

M. Carolyn Baum, PhD, OTR, FAOTA
Martha Kirkland, OTR
Kinsuk K. Maitra, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA

2016

Patricia (Pat) Booth, MAT
Mary Foto, OT, FAOTA, CCM
Emily Kringle, MOT, OTR/L
Diana L. Ramsay, MPP, OTR, FAOTA

2015

Alfred "Chip" J. Chiplin, Jr., JD, MDiv, CPE

2014

Adam T. Drobot, PhD

2013

Sharon G. Ryan, OTR

2012

Melissa Oliver, MS, OTR/L

2011

Cynthia F. Epstein, MA, OTR, FAOTA
Ruth Ann Watkins, MBA, OTR/L, FAOTA

2010

William "Bill" Farland, PhD
Nancy Talbot, MEd, OTR, FAOTA

2009

Phyllis Bauer Madachy

2008

Jean Deitz, PhD, OTR, FAOTA
Reatha Clark King, PhD 

2005

Leopold G. Selker, PhD, MBA
Gordon Williamson, PhD, OTR, FAOTA

2003

Jean Deitz, PhD, OTR, FAOTA

2001

Susan B. Fine, MA, OTR, FAOTA
Lex Frieden, MA
Hanna Gruen, OTR/L
Ann Hight

2000

 Jim Hinojosa, PhD, OTR, FAOTA

1998

Ronya Kozmetsky
Maralynne D. MItcham, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA

1996

Bryon Cohen (posthumously)
Edward Eckenhoff, MA, MHA, FACHE

1995

Bryon Cohen (posthumously)
Edward Eckenhoff, MA, MHA, FACHE

1995

Elizabeth Devereaux, MSW, ACSW/L, OTR/L, FAOTA      
Sharon Stoffel, MA, OTR, FAOTA
 

1994

 James Plumtree, MA, OTR

1993

M. Carolyn Baum, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA

1990

Carolyn Del Polito, PhD

1989

Lela Llorens, PhD, OTR, FAOTA

1988

Elizabeth Crepeau, OTR, FAOTA

1987

Martha S. Moersch, MEd, OTR/L, FAOTA 

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