Dr. Ellen Hillegass is a physical therapist with APTA board certification in the cardiovascular and pulmonary clinical specialty. She is also a Catherine Worthingham Fellow of the American Physical Therapy Association, the highest honor given by the APTA. Ellen is the President and CEO of PT Cardiopulmonary Educators, a web based education company providing webinars for continuing education and residency education that also has a core curriculum in Cardiopulmonary for DPT programs . She is also the founder of a Clinical Residency in Cardiopulmonary through Mercer University in conjunction with Piedmont Hospital. In 2024 the Academy of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Physical Therapy named their Keynote Lecture after Dr. Hillegass. Ellen Hillegass was the Chair of the Clinical Practice Guidelines Revision committee on Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) for the APTA that was published in April 2022 and the initial clinical practice guideline on VTE.  Dr. Hillegass is also the current Chair of the Oxygen Consensus Guidelines Task force for the Academy of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary PT of the APTA. She is the Editor of Essentials in Cardiopulmonary Physical Therapy, an entry- level text with the fifth edition just published in 2022 as well as the author of a clinical notes book entitled “PT CLINICAL NOTES” (formerly REHAB NOTES).