Dr. Marilyn Moffat, a recognized leader in the United States and internationally, is a teacher, a consultant, a researcher, an author, and a practitioner. She is a Full Professor of Physical Therapy at New York University, where she directs both the professional doctoral program (DPT) and the post-professional graduate master's degree program in pathokinesiology. She maintains a private practice in the New York area. Dr. Moffat is a Past-President of the World Confederation for Physical Therapy (now World Physiotherapy), a Past-President of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) and past Editor of Physical Therapy, APTA’s official publication 'Physical Therapy'. Amongst her many publications are two books for the lay audience - American Physical Therapy Association’s Book of Body Maintenance and Repair and Age-Defying Fitness. She also completed a 4-book series known as the Musculoskeletal Essentials, Cardiovascular/Pulmonary Essentials, Neuromuscular Essentials, and Integumentary Essentials for physical therapy clinicians and students. Dr. Moffat has received numerous national and international awards and has had 3 awards named after her – the Marilyn Moffat Leadership Award of the American Physical Therapy Association, the Dr. Marilyn Moffat Distinguished Service Award of the New York Physical Therapy Association, and the Marilyn Moffat Service Award of the North America/Caribbean Region World Confederation for Physical Therapy. She is a Catherine Worthingham Fellow of the APTA. Nationally she has received the APTA’s Mary McMillan Lecture Award (the highest award of APTA), the Lucy Blair Service Award, Outstanding Service Awards from the New York Physical Therapy Association and from the APTA, the Howard A Rusk Humanitarian Award from the Word Rehabilitation Fund, the United Cerebral Palsy Citation for Service, the Sawadi Skulkai Lecture Award from Mahidol University in Bangkok Thailand, New York University's Founders Day Award, the University of Florida's Barbara C. White Lecture Award, the Massachusetts General's Ionta Lecture Award, the APTA Minority Affairs Diversity 2000 Award, the APTA Section of Health Policy's R. Charles Harker Policy Maker Award, and the Ambassador Award from the National Strength Conditioning Association. She was also a recipient of the World Confederation for Physical Therapy Mildred Elson Award in recognition of her international leadership. She is also currently on the Board of Directors of the World Rehabilitation Fund and is a member of the Executive Committee and also on the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for Physical Therapy Research.