The 2023 ARP President’s Awards

Dr. Golightly is co-principal investigator, with Amanda Nelson, MD, MSCR, RhMSUS, of two internationally recognized cohort studies of musculoskeletal health: the Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project and the new Johnston County Health Study.

As assistant dean for research in the UNMC College of Allied Health Professions, Dr. Golightly partners with researchers to advance the multidisciplinary collaborative chronic disease research agenda.

Dr. Golightly currently serves as an associate editor of Osteoarthritis and Cartilage and is an editorial board member of Arthritis Care & Research.

Jan K. Richardson, PT, PhD, OCS, FAPTA, co-chair of the ARP Governance Task Force, is the chief medical officer for Medical Outcome Indicators, Washington, Pa., and professor emeritus, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, N.C. Dr. Richardson has also served as chief clinical officer for Universal SmartComp, Washington, Pa., as well as a professor of community and family medicine, founding chief of the Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) program and executive director of the Department of Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy at Duke University Medical Center.

She also served as the founding chair/professor of the DPT program, and executive director and chief executive officer for the Institute for Health Care and Research at Slippery Rock University, Pennsylvania. She has been in consulting and advisory positions with One Source, a board member of the U.S. Bone and Joint Institute representing the ACR, and serves as an expert witness.

“It was a great honor to have been chosen as a recipient of the ARP 2023 President’s Award for service as co-chair of the Governance Task Force (GTF),” says Dr. Richardson. “All of the GTF members provided excellent insight and expertise in reviewing the current governance structure of the ACR/ARP while creating innovative recommendations for a new and more collaborative partnership focusing on the team approach for rheumatology governance of the ACR. I appreciate this honor and want to thank the GTF members and the ACR/ARP.”

Dr. Richardson earned a doctorate and a Master of Science from the University of Pittsburgh, her post-graduate physical therapy education from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and a Bachelor of Science from Pennsylvania State University, State College.

Active in the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) at both the national and local levels, Dr. Richardson was APTA president, served as the U.S. delegate to the World Confederation of Physical Therapy, was a member of the executive committee of the APTA Board of Directors, and served as chair of the national TriAlliance of the APTA/American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA)/American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). She also served on the American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties (ABPTS) Task Force for Specialization.