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 >25 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 limb loss, other traumatic orthopedic injuries, general orthopedic conditions, and chronic wounds. 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 as National Residency Director, I worked for 5 years locally for SRT Prosthetics & Orthotics, soon to be a ForMotion clinic. I encountered patients side by side with the CPOs in their offices, providing PT guidance as appropriate and linking them with PTs in the community for routine physical therapy care. That experience has resulted in a better understanding for me of the experience of O&P Residents in general terms, as well as their roles, responsibilities, and desired learning opportunities. I am convinced of the need for the Residents as adult learners to guide their own learning in the clinical setting, and I work to facilitate their efforts by being a resource and providing tools for these crucial interactions with patients and Mentors.