About
As a proud native of North Carolina, I earned my bachelor's degree from Lenoir-Rhyne College in Hickory, NC, as a scholarship athlete on the volleyball and basketball teams. I was later enticed across the country to attend the Occupational Therapy and Occupational Science program at the University of Southern California, where I was granted a research assistantship to work on the first occupational therapy project published in JAMA. After gaining experience in both mental health and physical disabilities at the VA hospital in Nashville, TN, I began focusing my career on the treatment of the upper extremity. As the first Hand Therapy Fellow at the world-renowned Philadelphia Hand Center,...