Here are the exciting Featured Speakers for the 2025 AAOMPT Conference!
Clare Ardern
Dr Clare Ardern is an Australian-trained physiotherapist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy at The University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Her research team facilitates conversations and knowledge-sharing about how digital health can improve access to musculoskeletal care, and brings patients, clinicians and health policy makers together to co-design digital health interventions for musculoskeletal problems. Since 2018, Dr Ardern has had the privilege of serving as the editor-in-chief for JOSPT. She hosts the weekly JOSPT Insights podcast, which is downloaded over 35,000 times per month.
Roger Kerry
Dr Roger Kerry is Professor of Physiotherapy Education at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is a qualified Chartered Physiotherapist, and an honorary Fellow of the UK’s Musculoskeletal Association of Chartered Physiotherapists. His main clinical research interests have been in adverse events and physiotherapy interventions of the head and neck, particularly on the causal nature of the interventions. Roger also undertakes research activity in the Philosophy of Science, investigating the nature of causation in the health sciences, and this was the focus of his PhD. He is well- published in these areas and has been an invited speaker at numerous international conferences. Roger has been commended for developing innovative educational curricula and has received two prestigious Lord Dearing Awards for teaching excellence. He has also been recognised as a Higher Education Social Media Superstar by UK digital education organisation JISC. Roger also plays guitar in UK Alt-Country bands Lawrence County and Seven Dark Lords.
Kenneth A. Olson PT, DHSc, OCS, FAAOMPT
Dr. Ken Olson is a private practitioner in DeKalb, Illinois and adjunct faculty at Northern Illinois University. He is a Past-President of the International Federation of Orthopaedic Manipulative Physical Therapists (IFOMPT) and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapists (AAOMPT). He is also past-chairperson of the AAOMPT Practice Affairs committee and the APTA Manipulation Workgroup and a member of the IFOMPT/IOPTP Taskforce on Pediatric Manipulation. He has lectured internationally on topics related to advocacy and clinical reasoning for OMPT examination and management of spine and temporomandibular disorders and is author of the textbook Manual Physical Therapy of the Spine 3d ed. Elsevier, 2022.
Corey B. Simon, DPT, PhD, FAAOMPT
Corey Simon is an associate professor in the Duke Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, senior fellow in the Center for Aging, and member of the Duke Clinical Research Institute. As a NIH-funded pain researcher, he seeks to identify circulating stress and immune biomarkers among older adults that signal risk for movement-evoked pain, high-impact pain, disability, and poor health. His secondary area of focus is the development and implementation of age-friendly psychologically-informed interventions and clinical pathways. Outside academia, Corey is active in federal policy to improve pain science and management for older adults. He is a member of the Science & Policy Advisory Council for the National Pain Advocacy Center (NPAC) and Advocacy Committee for the U.S. Association for the Study of Pain (USASP).