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The NATA Clinical Symposia & AT Expo is the premier educational event for athletic trainers and other sports medicine professionals. The current climate presents the event industry, as a whole, with unprecedented challenges and considerations, the most important of which for NATA is the overall safety and well-being of our members. 

As we all adjust to a new reality and abide by shelter-in-place orders and/or social distancing guidelines, now is a great time to utilize technology to stay in contact with your fellow athletic trainers and communities.

The NATA Communications Toolkit was created to provide best practices to district and state associations when it comes to distributing information to their membership. It covers everything from a sample communications strategic plan and measuring social media efforts to the NATA Verbal Style Guide and logo guide for districts and states.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, athletic trainers have stepped up to help their communities and local health care systems in multiple ways, including screening, telemedicine and infrastructure. NATA will share what athletic trainers everywhere are doing to care for their patients, communities and themselves during this time.

By David Gallegos, MA, ATC, Cert. MDT

District Seven Director 

It is not unique to value history when considering the present and the future nor is it unique to document foundational efforts. It is unique, however, to appreciate the role our current decisions have in validating our past and even rarer to consider the value assigned by our daily interactions on our past, present and future professional capacities. It might even be a paradigm shift to realize our past defines our present, the present develops our future and the process is ever evolving.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, athletic trainers have stepped up to help their local health care systems in multiple ways, including screening, telemedicine and infrastructure. NATA will share what athletic trainers everywhere are doing to care for their patients, communities and themselves during this time.

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, athletic trainers have determined ways to remotely impact health care, wellness and safety for their patients and communities. One way NATA is doing this is by partnering with influencers to continue to promote patient care and prevention.

NATA President Tory Lindley, MA, ATC, will join Shaquille O’Neal at 4 p.m. ET April 7 (today) for an Instagram Live event as part of Icy Hot’s Rise Up campaign.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, athletic trainers have stepped up to help their communities and local health care systems in multiple ways, including screening, telemedicine and infrastructure. NATA will share what athletic trainers everywhere are doing to care for their patients, communities and themselves during this time.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, athletic trainers have stepped up to help their communities and local health care systems in multiple ways, including screening, telemedicine and infrastructure. NATA will share what athletic trainers everywhere are doing to care for their patients, communities and themselves during this time.

The April NATA News is now available online. In this issue, NATA presidential candidates Kathy Dieringer, EdD, LAT, ATC, and Katie Walsh Flanagan, EdD, LAT, ATC, share an inside look to who they are on a personal level and as athletic trainers. In the feature “Get to Know the Presidential Candidates,” they answer questions about everything from how they first got involved in volunteering for the profession to little-known facts about them.

By Greg Williams and Lindsey Schroeder

The NATA Education Advancement Committee (EAC) was established in 2015 as a committee under the Executive Council for Education. The mission of the committee is to identify short- and long-term educational research priorities, advance evidence-based scholarship and assess best practices related to athletic training education in order to enhance clinical practice and patient care. EAC aims to assist athletic trainers in the development and execution of their research agendas related to education.