National Physical Therapy Leadership

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Dr. James Spencer currently serves as Vice President of APTA Orthopedics - the largest component of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) serving 16,000 orthopedic Physical Therapist Members.  He has previously served in many other roles as well as being the main individual consulting on practice, policy, and legislation affecting orthopedic physical therapy. James is the 2025 Colorado Physical Therapist of the Year, APTA Colorado's highest honor.

James is available for consults as an expert-witness on legal cases and other proceedings.

In this picture, James is testifying before legislators at the Colorado State Capitol advocating for improved patient access to Physical Therapy.

Dr. Kate Spencer also serves nationally in prominent roles within APTA. In this photo, she is moderating an educational session at the largest Physical Therapist meeting in the world - APTA's Combined Sections Meeting (CSM) which gathers over 15,000 Physical Therapists, Assistants, and Students annually. She currently serves as a Chair of APTA Private Practice's CSM Programming Workgroup which selects courses for the conference, and she has previously served on APTA Colorado's Board of Directors.

Together, since college at Northeastern University, James and Kate have worked together to make big projects a reality. In this photo we are at the national conference for Physical Therapy Students giving a presentation on our unique career path when we worked during winters as physical therapists in Aspen and spent our summers working as PTs in Hawaii, Alaska, and throughout New England.

In 2023, we published a continuing education course for PTs on downhill skiing injuries now available through APTA Orthopedics.

We will continue to work together in Ajax PT, providing the very best physical therapy in Aspen, Snowmass, and Basalt.