Sharon Fair, PT, BA, BS, MS, Psy D, PhD

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Founder & President of the Wellness Society

The mission of the Wellness Society is to offer wellness education to physical therapists so they may enhance the wellness of their patients, themselves and their communities.

Founded as Florida Fitness in St Petersburg, FL in 1981

Fair, S.E. (2010) Wellness and Physical Therapy. Boston, MA: Jones & Bartlett

Required textbook in numerous entry-level DPT programs throughout the USA and abroad

Continuing education platform presentations at Florida state, national and international conferences

APTA Preview 2020, Las Vegas, NV

Combined Sections Meeting of the APTA, Boston, MA

International E-Learning Association (IELA)

among others

Consultant / Speaker

Kaiser Permanente, Los Angeles, CA

Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Baltimore, MD

Employee Wellness Program, Sheppard Pratt Hospital, Baltimore, MD

among others

Fair, S.E. A (2007) Comparison of the Aerobic Capacity Wellness of Female and Male Physical Therapist Members of the American Physical Therapy Association. Journal of Women’s Health Physical Therapy, 31(1) Spring:6-10. 

Fair, S.E. (2005) The fitness self-wellness of physical therapists. Dissertation Abstracts International, 66(1), 1-236. (ProQuest Information and Learning No. 3162726)

Fair, S.E. (2004) A Comparison of the Self-Wellness of Female and Male Students in one Entry-Level Physical Therapy Program, Journal of Women’s Health Physical Therapy, 28(3) December: 15-21. 

Fair, S.E. (2000) "Real world" compliance: the efficacy of the 420 calorie Optifast diet in one hospital-based clinic. Paper for the Southern California University for Professional Studies, Palo Alto, CA. 

Fair, S.E. (1987) The effects of a moderate versus a modest exercise regime on the quality of weight loss of obese women on a very low calorie diet. Paper for the Maryland Metabolic Institute of the Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Baltimore, MD.

Joined 1992

Council on Prevention, Health Promotion, and Wellness - FL representative

Mentor in APTA's "Members Mentoring Members" 

Chairperson of the Home Health SIG (special interest group) of the APTA of MD

Committee Member (alongside Florence Kendall, PT) of the Nominating Committee of the APTA of MD

City University of New York (CUNY) - Queens College

1986 

Graduate Fellow 

Instructed  courses in "Health, Nutrition & Exercise" (lecture and lab) and "How Teach Aerobic Dance" for physical education majors (including lecture, lab and writing of the course manual)