The Orthotics and Prosthetics Foundation for Education and Research announced that Kate Allyn, LCPO, FAAOP, is the recipient of the 2024 Carlton Fillauer Award. The award, sponsored by Fillauer, recognizes a clinician’s contributions in clinical care, scientific research, and peer-reviewed publication in the area of prosthetics in the O&P profession.
Allyn is a clinician, researcher, fellow, and past president of the American Academy of Orthotists & Prosthetists. She completed her O&P education at Northwestern University and residency in orthotics at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. 
In clinical practice at Northwest P&O Clinic, Seattle, Allyn specialized in dysvascular populations, rehabilitation, and traumatic lower-limb prosthetic care. As a consulting research prosthetist/orthotist at the University of Washington Rehabilitation Medicine and Bioengineering departments, she continues to work on various federal grants for auto-socket technology, prostheses monitoring, and frontal-plane adaptability in a prosthetic foot.
The award will be presented at the 50th Academy Annual Meeting & Scientific Symposium, March 6-9, in Chicago.
