Speakers

Chad Cook, PT, PhD, MBA, FAAOMPT is the program director and a professor at Doctor of Physical Therapy division in Duke University. His passions include refining and improving the patient examination process and validating tools used in day-to-day physical therapist practice. He received his BS in Physical Therapy from Maryville University in 1990 and his MBA (1999) and PhD (2003) from Texas Tech University. Dr. Cook received fellowship status at the American Academy of Orthopedic Manual Therapy in 2006. Dr. Cook has published over 200 peer reviewed papers and has two textbooks in their 2nd edition and a third textbook in its first edition. He is a senior associate editor for the British Journal of Sports Medicine and a special topics editor for JOSPT. He is currently treasurer of AAOMPT. Dr. Cook has won numerous awards locally at Duke for teaching, is a recent winner of the top educator award for the American Physical Therapy Association (Baethke-Carlin award), is the 2008 recipient of the Helen Bradley career achievement award, and is the 2005 winner of the J Warren Perry Distinguished Authorship Award. In addition, Dr. Cook is also the 2011 winner and was the 2012 and 2013 co-winner of the AAOMPT Excellence in Research Award.