{"id":2224,"date":"2018-05-02T16:08:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T20:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/schoolbasedpt\/?page_id=2224"},"modified":"2020-08-05T13:04:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T17:04:41","slug":"meet-laurie-ray-mpt-phd","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/schoolbasedpt\/about\/meet-laurie-ray-mpt-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Laurie Ray, MPT, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/schoolbasedpt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/662\/2020\/08\/IMG_0694.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3587 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/schoolbasedpt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/662\/2020\/08\/IMG_0694-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Laurie Ray, outdoors, trees in background\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/schoolbasedpt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/662\/2020\/08\/IMG_0694-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/schoolbasedpt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/662\/2020\/08\/IMG_0694.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Laurie Ray, MPT, PhD, has 16 years of experience in school-based practice in North Carolina. Laurie has served\u00a0North Carolina as the physical therapy consultant for NC Department of Public Instruction (NC DPI)\u00a0since 2005, Medicaid consultant since 2006 and Adapted Physical Education liaison since 2010. She received\u00a0her MPT and PhD (in special education) from UNC-Chapel Hill where she is an associate professor for the\u00a0Division of Physical Therapy.<\/p>\n<p>Laurie serves the APTA&#8217;s Academy of Pediatric Physical Therapists (APPT) as Chair of the School Special\u00a0Interest Group (School SIG) and on the APPT Policy, Payment and Advocacy Committee. She is a reviewer\u00a0for Pediatric Physical Therapy. Laurie serves as chair of the Research Committee for the National Alliance for\u00a0Medicaid in Education (NAME).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:laurie_ray@med.unc.edu\">Contact Laurie<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Laurie Ray, MPT, PhD, has 16 years of experience in school-based practice in North Carolina. Laurie has served\u00a0North Carolina as the physical therapy consultant for NC Department of Public Instruction (NC DPI)\u00a0since 2005, Medicaid consultant since 2006 and Adapted Physical Education liaison since 2010. She received\u00a0her MPT and PhD (in special education) from UNC-Chapel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/schoolbasedpt\/about\/meet-laurie-ray-mpt-phd\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Meet Laurie Ray, MPT, PhD\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55977,"featured_media":0,"parent":2213,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2224","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Meet Laurie Ray, MPT, PhD - NC School-Based Physical Therapy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/schoolbasedpt\/about\/meet-laurie-ray-mpt-phd\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Meet Laurie Ray, MPT, PhD - NC School-Based Physical Therapy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; Laurie Ray, MPT, PhD, has 16 years of experience in school-based practice in North Carolina. 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