Linda Fetters, PT, PhD, appointed to Foundation's Scientific Review Committee.

Linda Fetters, PT, PhD, and Professor of Physical Therapy in the Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, was selected by the Foundation for Physical Therapy Board of Trustees to serve as a member of the Foundation's Scientific Review Committee (SRC). Her 3-year term began January 1.

The 9-member SRC reviews all doctoral scholarship and research grant applications received by the Foundation for funding.

Fetters is an internationally known scholar and educator in development, pediatric rehabilitation, and evidence-based practice. She received a Found-ation doctoral student support grant in 1981 and Foundation funding in 1990 in support of her study, "The Effects of Physical Therapy Treatment on Spastic Cerebral Palsy." She has received research awards from the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) Section on Pediatrics and the Massachusetts chapter of APTA. She also has received a Mary E Switzer Research Fellowship from the National Institute on Disability Rehabilitation and Research (NIDRR) of the US Department of Education.

Fetters was a co-investigator on a National Institute of Health (NIH)/National Institute on Drug Abuse grant to study the neuromotor functioning of infants who were exposed to cocaine and as a co-investigator on a NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) research grant to study the motor development of infants with white matter disease who were born prematurely. She has published extensively and serves as an editorial board member and reviewer for several professional journals.