Ashley Cassel, PT, DPT, OCS  is a board certified orthopedic physical therapy specialist with experience practicing in a direct access, primary care physical therapy setting. Ashley serves as the Chief of Outpatient Physical Therapy at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System where she has 15+ years of clinical experience practicing in an outpatient setting including primary care direct access physical therapy. Ashley is a subject matter expert member of the VHA National PACT PT Diffusion Team working to spread the best practice of embedding PT in Primary Care throughout VHA by 2025. She co-founded and serves on the board of the APTA Federal Primary Care Special Interest Group where she is project lead on the petition to establish Primary Care PT as a recognized area of specialty and residency practice.  

Megan Daman (pronouns she and her) is Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Program Manager for Minneapolis VA Health Care System. She’s been a nurse over twenty years and achieved board certification as an Adult Health Clinical Nurse Specialist in 2010. Megan has a passion for health and wellness, and supporting everyone – Veterans and staff members - to achieve their defined highest level of functioning. Outside of work, Megan enjoys being physically active in nature with her husband, twin children and wrangling bird dogs.

Molly J. Lahn, PT, DPT, PhD is a clinical specialist with the Minneapolis VA Healthcare System. Her PhD studies focused on the science and practice of mind-body medicine and its central role in our evolving healthcare system. Dr. Lahn has also taught at the graduate level and conducted training for both healthcare professionals and patients in stress resiliency and trauma-informed care. She is a current member of the Biopsychosocial Physical Therapy Mentorship Program serving rural VA sites nationwide.