NATA Now

By Tim Weston, MEd, ATC, NATA Presidential Election Procedures Workgroup Chair

As chair of the NATA Presidential Election Procedures Workgroup, I am excited to report that 24.9 percentage of eligible members voted in this year’s NATA presidential election, compared to 21.9 percent during the 2017 election.

The results of the NATA 2020 presidential election are in – Kathy Dieringer, EdD, LAT, ATC, is NATA’s new president-elect.

“Thank you to the members of NATA for your faith in me as the next NATA president,” Dieringer said. “I am thrilled to be chosen to lead our incredible profession throughout the next few years, and rest assured I will hit the ground running. While we have a few immediate challenges ahead of us, I am ready to tackle any issue to improve the lives of our members. Together, we will!”

Editor’s note: NATA reached out to athletic trainers who participated in the 2020 NATA Virtual Clinical Symposia & AT Expo to learn about their experiences for a blog series called My VNATA Experience. If you would like to share your thoughts on VNATA 2020 as well, email marketing@nata.org.

Editor’s note: NATA reached out to athletic trainers who participated in the 2020 NATA Virtual Clinical Symposia & AT Expo to learn about their experiences for a blog series called My VNATA Experience. If you would like to share your thoughts on VNATA 2020 as well, email marketing@nata.org.

After hosting a successful call-in event in June, the NATA Ethnic Diversity Advisory Committee and ATs Care Commission will team up once again to host call-in nights for NATA members and student members to express their emotional response to recent events throughout August.

The NATA EDAC & ATs Care Call-In Nights: Addressing Racial Tension, COVID-19 and Uncertainty in 2020 will be held at 6 p.m. CDT Aug. 3, Aug. 11, Aug. 19 and Aug. 27 for members and at 7 p.m. CDT Aug. 5 for student members.

Editor’s note: The Strategic Alliance’s Athletic Training Research Agenda Task Force is highlighting clinical members who have been recognized by one of their colleagues in athletic training as a Clinical Scholar Champion for their efforts in collecting point of care research. This blog series will celebrate clinical scholars in order to illustrate how research is being used in the clinical practice.

For the last time before the NATA presidential election closes, candidates Kathy Dieringer, EdD, LAT, ATC, and Katie Walsh Flanagan, EdD, LAT, ATC, went live to answer member-submitted questions during Face Time ’20 at the 2020 NATA Virtual Clinical Symposia & AT Expo July 15. 

It could be a picture of your pet, your family, your Instagram-worthy dinner or a selfie. Supporting the NATA Research & Education Foundation is as easy as snapping one of those pictures. Johnson & Johnson’s Donate a Photo campaign teamed up with the NATA Foundation once again to raise money. For every photo uploaded using the Donate a Photo app, J&J will donate $1 to the NATA Foundation, up to $15,000, until Sept. 15.

Although attendees at the 2020 NATA Virtual Clinical Symposia & AT Expo were watching the General Session from behind a computer screen, NATA President Tory Lindley, MA, ATC, made it clear that this year’s convention will not be less impactful – and emphasized that this year will be the most important year in the association’s history. Lindley delivered an encouraging State of the Association address July 14 during General Session at VNATA 2020.

Are you ready to test your knowledge? It’s student against student as participants across the country play each other in a friendly Kahoot competition during the 2020 NATA Virtual Clinical Symposia & AT Expo. Join, compete or just watch the action in the NATA Student Leadership Committee’s Trivia Takeover at 3 p.m. CDT Wednesday, July 15.