COMTA Executive Director Moves On

The COMTA Commission and staff announced that Executive Director Kate Zulaski left the organization on May 1 to pursue a graduate program in Asian Studies at the prestigious Leiden University in Leiden, Netherlands. Zulaski devoted years of dedicated service to COMTA and the massage and esthetics communities.

Zulaski joined COMTA as executive director in 2009 and was the tireless voice for the agency the past eight years. Her invaluable leadership advocating for specialized accreditation and educational quality has earned her an exceptional reputation with the commission, schools, massage/esthetics communities, and the accreditation world. Among her many accomplishments, Zulaski presided over two successful Department of Education recognition renewal petitions and was instrumental in securing COMTA’s new management agreement with the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges (ACCSC).

You may contact Commission Chair Dawn Hogue at chair@comta.org or Director of Accreditation Angie Myer at amyer@comta.org for questions and assistance.

Category: 

News

Increasing Education Hours: A Trend on the Rise

Due to a revised federal rule change, states with minimum-hour education requirements lower than 600 are considering increasing their massage therapy program length. Find out which states have already introduced bills that would raise education hours, which massage boards have proposed and made final rule changes, and why this is becoming a national trend.

Blog

ABMP CE Summit: Headaches

 Headaches.

Join us online Tuesday, April 30, 2024, for the ABMP CE Summit: Headaches, which take learners on a journey from understanding headaches to working with clients with headache pain using multiple modalities and techniques.

New CE Course: Stretching the Hip

Dr. Joe Muscolino displays a massage therapy technique.

The new ABMP CE course, “Stretching the Hip,” is available in the ABMP Education Center to view and earn 1.5 CE hours.

Benefits

Podcast: Cancer, Clots, and COVID—A Complicated Client

A client was recently treated for colon cancer—and it didn’t go well. She had surgical complications, a bout of sepsis, and more. Is massage therapy safe? We discuss on this episode of “I Have a Client Who . . .” Pathology Conversations with Ruth Werner.

Please note: We have recently updated our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. Learn more...