The Watts Award [1] is named after Professor Emerita Nancy T. Watts, PhD, PT, FAPTA [2], who in 1989 was the first recipient of the Award for Excellence in Teaching that was created to recognize individual faculty members for outstanding achievement in teaching. It was renamed in 1996 in her honor. Dr. Watts, who helped create the Institute and then was its first Director of the Physical Therapy program, passed away in April 2011.

2021 Award Recipient

The 2021 recipient of the Watts Award is Kaveri Roy, DNP, RN, CHPN [3].

 

2020 - Sofia Vallila Rohter, PhD, CCC-SLP [4](view video [5])
2019 – Rebecca Hill, DNP, RN, FNP-C, CNE [6] (view video [7])
2018 – Jason R. Lucey, MSN, RN, FNP-BC [8]
2017 – Laura Plummer, PT, DPT, MS, NCS [9]
2016 – Antonia Makosky, DNP, MSN, MPH, ANP-BC [10] 
2015 – Katherine Simmonds, MS, MPH, WHNP-BC [11]
2014 – Patricia Reidy, DNP, FNP-BC [12]
2013 – D.J. Mattson, DPT, EdD, SCS
2012 – Charles Haynes, EdD, CCC-SLP [13]
2011 – A.J. Guarino, PhD
2010 – Marianne Beninato, DPT, PhD [14]
2009 – Charles Jeans, MS, CCC-SLP
2008 – Sharon P. Sullivan, MS, RN
2007 – Linda Andrist, PhD, RNC, WHNP [15]
2006 – Anne McCarthy Jacobson, DPT, MS, NCS [16]
2005 – Marjorie Nicholas, PhD, CCC-SLP [17]
2004 – Pamela E. Hook, PhD [18], Professor Emerita [19]
2003 – Kathleen Gill-Body, DPT, MS, NCS
2002 – Bette Ann Harris, DPT, MS [20], Professor Emerita [19]
2001 – Lesley A. Maxwell, MS, CCC-SLP [21]
2000 – Mary P. Watkins, DPT, MS, CHT, Professor Emerita [22]
1999 – Inge B. Corless, PhD, RN, FAAN [23]
1998 – Janice Bell Meisenhelder, DNSc, RN
1997 – Carol H. Kammer, EdD, RN
1996 – No award given
1995 – Patrice K. Nicholas, DNSC, MPH, RN, ANP, FAAN [24]
1994  –James M. Hodgson, PhD
1993 – Michael D. Smith, PhD
1992 – Daniel A. Dyrek, DPT, MS
1991 – Barbara K. Willson, PhD, RNC, Professor Emerita [22]
1990 – Sylvia D. Paige, DNSc, RN, Professor Emerita [22]
1989 – Nancy T. Watts, PhD, PT, FAPTA, Professor Emerita [22]