How Applications are Reviewed
The independent Scientific Review Committee (SRC) is responsible for peer-reviewing applications for Foundation funding. Members are appointed by the Board of Trustees and serve as volunteers for three-year terms. The committee is comprised of physical therapy researchers who collectively have the range of expertise and experience across all the types of funding the Foundation offers.
The SRC reviews and scores applications for four types of funding that the Foundation offers each year: the Promotion of Doctoral Studies scholarships, the Postdoctoral Fellowship, the letters of intent for our Magistro Family Foundation and two Paris Patla research grants, and for all research grants being offered each year.
The Research Committee, a standing committee of the Board, considers the SRC review scores and makes recommendations for awards based on best scores. The full Board then makes final decisions on all awards. The Board reserves the right not to make an award.
Application Review Process
Submit Application on ProposalCentral
All applications must be submitted through the Foundation’s account on ProposalCentral.
Applications Checked for Compliance
The Foundation checks all submitted applications for eligibility, completeness, and for fully meeting all application requirements. Ones that are not fully compliant are triaged and are not assigned to the SRC for review.
SRC Review and Scoring
After this first review round, applications not meeting the scoring cut off are triaged from further consideration. Remaining applications with qualifying scores are discussed by the SRC in online review meetings. Members discuss and then cast scores. The average of those post-discussion scores becomes the application’s final score.
Research Committee Selects Applications to Recommend
The best scoring applications are presented to the Board’s Research Committee, which recommends the best-scoring application(s) to the full Board which makes final decisions on which applications are to be provisionally awarded funding.
Award Decisions
The Board of Trustees reviews Research Committee recommendations and makes the final decisions on all awards.
Funding Announcements
The Foundation notifies all applicants of whether they have been successful or not prior to making a public announcement. Review comments and scores are available for applications that went through at least the initial peer-review round.
Meet the Scientific Review Committee Members
Scientific Review Committee members are appointed by the Board of Trustees to provide independent and expert peer reviewing of applications for Foundation funding. It is comprised of physical therapy researchers with experience preparing physical therapists and physical therapist assistants for research careers and with experience conducting successful and impactful physical therapy research themselves.
Murray Maitland, PT, PhD, FAPTA – Chair
Sandra Kaplan, PT, DPT, PhD, FAPTA
Sean Rundell, PT, DPT, PhD
Amy Bailes, PT, PhD
Valerie E. Kelley, PT, MS, PhD
Richard Severin PT, DPT, PhD, CCS
D. Michele Basso, EdD, PT
Anne Kloos, PT, PhD
Bahar Shahidi, PT, DPT, PhD
Mark Bowden, PT, PhD
Amit Kumar, BPhT, MPH, PhD
Andrew Smith, PT, DPT, PhD
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