Angela Heaton

Angela Heaton is an Instructor for TherapyEd and the director of the Physical Therapist Assistant Program at James A. Rhodes State College and the interim Dean of Health Sciences. She graduated from the Ohio State University with a Bachelor’s degree in Physical Therapy and received a Master’s degree in Administrative Higher Education from the University of Dayton.  Angela is actively involved in the didactic education of the PTA.  She has been a program educator for 27 years and currently serves as a team leader for on-site program visits for the Commission on Accreditation of Physical Therapy Education (CAPTE). She also served on the PTA panel commission of CAPTE from 2009-2013.  In October of 2011, Angela was selected as Ohio’s Educator of the Year by the Ohio Association of Two Year Colleges. Angela, along with her PTA faculty, received the 2016 Faculty Innovation Award from the American Association of Community Colleges for their innovative implementation of tablet technology into the PTA curriculum.