The FWATA Annual Meeting is intended primarily for Certified Athletic Trainers but will also have pertinent information and content for other health care providers. Sessions at this meeting will cover all 5 domains of athletic training: Injury/Illness Prevention and Wellness, Clinical Evaluation and Diagnosis, Immediate and Emergency Care, Treatment and Rehabilitation, and Organization and Professional Health and Well-Being. Educational sessions at this meeting, are intended for Certified Athletic Trainers, according to the education levels described by the PDC, and are either Essential/Advanced/Mastery Level programming.

Sessions designated for athletic training students will primarily be composed of Essential Level programming.

Agenda & Schedule

If you registered for the meeting, you will receive a full refund. The refund will be issued directly to your online method of payment. Please allow up to 10 business days for processing as of April 22, 2020. If you paid by check, please contact Ginger Ehrke.

Thank you for your interest in our FWATA Annual Meeting and Clinical Symposium. Please stay tuned for information regarding our 2021 meeting in Las Vegas.

Interested exhibitors can contact Bill Chamber or Leroy Heu

Thank you for your 2020 submissions. Please stay tuned for more information.

The FWATA (District 8) Research and Grants Committee invites abstract submissions for the Free Communications program. We are sponsoring Poster Presentation awards (with cash prizes for students!) and our Clinical Outcome Based Research Award (cash prize of $500).

Please contact the FWATA R&G Committee Chair with any questions:

Melissa Montgomery PhD, ATC
Chair, FWATA Research and Grants Committee
California State University, Fullerton
memontgomery@Exchange.FULLERTON.edu

2020 FWATA Paul Schechter Memorial Scholarship Golf Tournament has been cancelled.

For more information please contact Dennis Goebel.

If you made a room reservation within the FWATA room block, it will be cancelled automatically, you will not have to do anything. There will be no charge.

If individuals wish to visit during that time; please contact Sara Lebrun-Scott at Sara.Lebrun-Scott@sheraton.com and she will re-book you manually at the rate for 2020.

Thank you for your interest in presenting at the 2021 FWATA Annual Meeting & Clinical Symposium, April 15-18, 2021 in Las Vegas, Nevada

The proposal submission period is closed.

– FWATA Speaker Compensation Policy

Group Registration Form (.xlsx)

Fees and Cancellation Policies link

Acknowledgement Statement

Please stay tuned for more information in 2021. Annual events include:

FWATA Student Scholarship Golf Tournament
Exhibit Hall
Research and Grants Committee Poster Presentations
FWATA Awards Dinner
Job & Message Board

More information will be posted when registration begins

2021 – April 15-18 at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort and Casino
2022 – April 28 – May 1 at the Town and Country Resort – San Diego

FWATA is a “BOC Approved Provider.”

Please note that the provider numbers vary by category and/or individual sessions (i.e. EBP sessions have different provider numbers that are unique to each session) when reporting the CEUs you earned from FWATA Annual Meetings and Clinical Symposiums. The provider numbers is located towards the bottom of the CEU certificate of attendance.

For Category A CEUs, enter “Annual Meeting and Clinical Symposium” for Activity Ttile. For EBP CEUs, enter the title to the course you attended. Course titles are ocated toward the top of the EBP CEU Certificate of attendance. Listed below is the maxium number of CEUs that were available for each category, for each meeting. Registered attendees are responsible for tracking the actual number of CEU hours that they earned by attending various sessions.

Previous Meetings:

April 25-28, 2019
2019 Annual Meeting and Clinical Symposium
Town and Country Resort
San Diego, CA
12 Category A CEUs; 6 EBP CEUs

April 26-29, 2018
2018 Annual Meeting and Clinical Symposium
Westgate Resort and Casino Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada
17 Category A CEUs; 6 EBP CEUs

April 27-30, 2017
2017 Annual Meeting and Clinical Symposium
Westgate Resort and Casino Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada
12 Category A CEUs; 5 EBP CEUs

July 12-16, 2016
2016 Annual Meeting and Clinical Symposium
Sheraton Kona Resort and Spa at Keauhou
Kailua-Kona, Hawai’i
15 Category A CEUs and 5 EBP CEUs
**Important Note: If you attended the last EBP session (Speaker: Lori A. Michener, PhD, Pt, ATC, SCS, FAPTA), it is only approved for a maximum of 1.0 EBP CEU, not two. Please make sure to enter the correct number of CEUs to avoid an audit**

April 17-19, 2015
2015 Annual Meeting and Clinical Symposium
Town and Country Resort and Spa
San Diego, California
12 Category A CEUs and 5 EBP CEUs

April 11-13, 2014
2014 Annual Meeting and Clinical Symposium
Las Vegas Hotel
Las Vegas, Nevada
16 Category A CEUs

Reporting CE to the BOC:

ATs must complete a predetermined number of continuing education units (CEUs) during the certification maintenance period. The current period ends December 31, 2021. (11:59pm CT). Please use the following link to the BOC Website for more information about maintaining and reporting CEUs: New Link