ABT NTC Medical Advisory Board
In formulating its National Training Curriculum, ABT assembled a medical advisory board to provide medical guidelines for the healthy and sound training of dancers. The advisory board, headed by Gary I. Wadler, MD, FACP, FACSM, FCP, FACPM, includes medical professionals from the fields of sports medicine, nutrition, physical therapy, and orthopedics. ABT National Training Curriculum Medical Advisory Board Members include:
Phillip A. Bauman, M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor
Orthopedic Surgery
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University
Lisa R. Callahan, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Family)
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Priscilla M. Clarkson, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Research
School of Public Health & Health Sciences
University of Massachusetts
Julie Daugherty, MPT
ABT Physical Therapist
Franco De Vita
ABT National Training Curriculum Associate Emeritus
Former Artistic Director, ABT Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School
Randall W. Dick
Associate Director of Research/Injury Surveillance System
NCAA
Christa Dickey
Director of Communications
American College of Sports Medicine
James G. Garrick, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Orthopedics
University of California, San Francisco
St. Francis Memorial Hospital
William Garnett Hamilton, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Orthopedic Surgery
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University
Raymond Lukens
ABT National Training Curriculum Associate Emeritus
Former Artistic Director, ABT National Training Curriculum
Peter Marshall
ABT Physical Therapist
Kevin McKenzie
ABT Artistic Director
Lyle Micheli, M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor of Orthopedic Surgery
Harvard Medical School
Rachel Moore, MA
Former ABT Chief Executive Officer
Lewis S. Ranieri
ABT Chairman Emeritus
Caroline Silby, Ph.D., M.Ed.
Sports Psychologist
Adjunct Faculty
American University
Eric Small, M.D
Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Orthopedics and Rehabilitation Medicine
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Angela D. Smith M.D.
Clinical Associate in Orthopedic Surgery
U of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
The Children’s’ Hospital of Philadelphia
Department of Orthopedic Surgery
Virginia Wilmerding, Ph.D.
President, International Association of Dance Medicine and Science
Adjunct Professor
University of New Mexico