In May 2006, The United States Congress officially acknowledged American Ballet Theatre as America’s National Ballet Company. With this honor, ABT is committed to taking a leadership role in dance training in the United States and has created the ABT National Training Curriculum. In formulating its National Training Curriculum, ABT assembled a medical advisory board to provide medical guidelines for the healthy and sound training of dancers.
The four components of the National Training Curriculum are as follows:
1. Teacher Training Programs
2. Medical Advisory Board
3. NYU Master’s Degree in ABT Ballet Pedagogy
4. Certification and Examination System
Medical Advisory Board Members
Gary I. Wadler, M.D. (Chairman)
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
NYU School of Medicine
Phillip A. Bauman, M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine (Family)
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Lisa R. Callahan, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Family)
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Priscilla M. Clarkson, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Research
School of Public Health & Health Sciences
University of Massachusetts
Julie Daugherty
ABT Physical Therapist
Franco De Vita
Principal, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
School at ABT
Randall W. Dick
Associate Director of Research / Injury
Surveillance System
NCAA
Christa Dickey
Director of Communications
American College of Sports Medicine
James G. Garrick, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Orthopedics
University of California, San Francisco
St. Francis Memorial Hospital
William Garnett Hamilton, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Orthopedic Surgery
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University
Raymond Lukens
Faculty, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
School at ABT
Peter Marshall
ABT Physical Therapist
Kevin McKenzie
ABT Artistic Director
Rachel Moore, MA
ABT Executive Director
Lewis S. Ranieri
ABT Chairman Emeritus
Caroline Silby, Ph.D., M.Ed.
Sports Psychology Consultant
Adjunct Faculty American University
Eric Small, M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
Orthopedics and Rehabilitation Medicine
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Angela D. Smith, M.D.
Clinical Associate in Orthopedic Surgery
U of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Department of Orthopedic Surgery
Virginia Wilmerding, Ph.D.
President, International Association of Dance Medicine and Science
Adjunct Professor
University of New Mexico
