NAIOMT

Ann has taught all levels of NAIOMT core manual therapy courses, but now focuses on the 700 advanced/fellowship level. She an active virtual clinical fellowship mentor. She is senior faculty, examiner, and clinical instructor, and past fellowship director with NAIOMT, with 47 years of teaching and 52 years of clinical experience. She is experienced in multiple aspects of the manual physical therapy approach to all parts of the body including advanced clinical reasoning, mobilization/manipulation, postural re-education, cranial and trigger point release and patient-specific neuro-muscular re-education. Her specialty is with complex and long-standing functional limitations, especially of the head-neck and lumbo-sacral regions. Ann received a Diploma in Physiotherapy from St Thomas' Hospital, London in 1971, a BSc PT from the University of British Columbia, in 1982 and a post professional doctorate in physical therapy from Pacific University, OR in 2008. She was taught by and then worked with James Cyriax MD in London, England from 1967-72, worked and studied with pioneer manual therapists in Vancouver, Canada from 1972-82, and was in clinical practice in Portland, Oregon 1983-2020. The pandemic pushed her to reluctantly retire from clinical practice. She continues to enjoy virtual teaching of advanced manual physical therapy and clinical mentoring and developing presentations for the NAIOMT virtual instruction platforms. She has served on numerous national and international OMPT committees (AAOMPT & IFOMPT) and has been involved in the development of the Description of Advanced Specialist Practice in OMPT and IFOMPT Educational Standards. Her awards include Mercedes Weiss service award, from Oregon PT Association (1996), the John McM. Mennell Service Award from AAOMPT in 2006 and the “Kaltenborn – Teach I must” award from AAOMPT in 2021. She lives in Portland, OR with her retired paramedic and part-time flight instructor husband, experiments with gardening (always humbling), regularly visits the Canadian gulf islands, and is so proud of their two grown children (one a PT) and two grandchildren.