Ithaca College

Steve Wechsler, PT, DPT, (’10, DPT ’12) a senior PT at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, was recently awarded an Emerging Leader award by the Oncology Section of the American Physical Therapy Association. 

The Emerging Leaders Program enables each APTA chapter or section to identify and honor 1 PT or PTA who has demonstrated extraordinary service early in his or her physical therapy career. Criteria include exceptional overall accomplishments and contributions to APTA and the physical therapy profession as a whole that advance APTA's vision of "Transforming society by optimizing movement to improve the human experience."

A member of the Oncology Section since 2015, Steve has been a vocal advocate for the use of social media to promote section membership, continuing education options, certification opportunities, calls to write and submit papers to the section's journal (Rehabilitation Oncology), and to promote the physical therapy profession as a whole. He currently serves as the social media chair of the Communications Committee

In addition to allowing clinicians to network and access current evidence, social media engagement can enhance patient care, as well, Steve notes.  "If we can provide educational material or community resources to the profession that PTs then can pass on to their patients, we can directly affect patient care,"