I am honored to serve the residents and clinicians of our clinical partners as the National Residency Director, charged with development and implementation of our comprehensive curriculum. My primary objective is to facilitate the work of our Residents, Mentors, and Residency Directors, thereby allowing them to focus on clinical teaching and learning during patient care.

I am passionate about quality instruction in clinical settings as seen by my >20 years of experience both as an individual clinical instructor for doctoral-level PT students and as Director of Clinical Education in a university DPT program for 14 of those years. I have guided over 600 DPT students in their journeys from the classroom to the clinic in that time frame, often personally advising those who experienced personal or professional challenges along the way. I am most gratified when a former student steps confidently into a satisfying, long-lasting clinical career because of the excellence and rigor of the clinical learning program.

I am equally passionate about working with people with limb loss over my entire physical therapy career, starting in 1998. My clinical experience is primarily in an urban Level I trauma center working with patients with lower extremity limb loss as well as patients with either traumatic orthopedic injuries or general orthopedic conditions. I am most grateful in this area when a former patient is independently accessing their community and world by confidently walking on a prosthesis.

In addition to serving Össur patient care clinics as National Residency Director, I also work locally for SRT Prosthetics & Orthotics, an Össur clinical partner. I serve as the Lower Extremity Clinical & Education Specialist, combining patient care and consultation with a board continuing education program for practicing therapists. I continue to teach DPT students about evaluation and treatment for people with limb loss at 4 universities, and I lecture to other DPT students about proper care of the residual limb based on my extensive experience in wound care.