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  • New!

    Free Paper Showcase
    Contains 3 Component(s), Includes Credits

    This session features the 2025 National Assembly session Free Paper Showcase.

    This session is meant to showcase five high-level research papers worthy of a special highlight.

    This course is worth 1.75 scientific credits. If you attended this session at the 2025 National Assembly, please note you will not receive credit again.

    Matt Wernke, PhD

    Matt Wernke, PhD

    Director, Research and Development

    WillowWood Global LLC

    Dr. Wernke is the Director, Research & Development at WillowWood Global LLC. He earned his PhD in Biomedical Engineering in 2013 from the University of South Florida. Dr. Wernke has been the Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator for 10 federally funded grants from agencies such as the DoD, NIH, NIDILRR, and VA and received a Thranhardt award in 2015. He currently serves on the AOPA Planning Committee and Research Committee.
  • New!

    Thranhardt Award Lectures
    Contains 3 Component(s), Includes Credits

    This session features the 2025 National Assembly Thranhardt Award Lectures.

    This session features the 2025 National Assembly Thranhardt Award Lectures.

    This course is worth 1.25 scientific credits. If you attended this session at the 2025 National Assembly, please note you will not receive credit again.

    Matt Wernke, PhD

    Matt Wernke, PhD

    Director, Research and Development

    WillowWood Global LLC

    Dr. Wernke is the Director, Research & Development at WillowWood Global LLC. He earned his PhD in Biomedical Engineering in 2013 from the University of South Florida. Dr. Wernke has been the Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator for 10 federally funded grants from agencies such as the DoD, NIH, NIDILRR, and VA and received a Thranhardt award in 2015. He currently serves on the AOPA Planning Committee and Research Committee.
  • New!

    Prosthetic Free Papers: Components and Technology
    Contains 3 Component(s), Includes Credits

    This session features the 2025 National Assembly session Prosthetic Free Papers: Components and Technology.

    This session focuses on papers around the topic of components and technology.

    This course is worth 1.75 scientific credits. If you attended this session at the 2025 National Assembly, please note you will not receive credit again.

    Tyler Klenow, MSPO, MBA, CPO, FAAOP

    Tyler Klenow, MSPO, MBA, CPO, FAAOP

    Senior Clinical Research Associate

    Ottobock Healthcare LP

    Tyler Klenow, MS, MBA, CPO, FAAOP is the Senior Clinical Research Associate for Ottobock Healthcare LP where he supports Ottobock's clinical research and regulatory initiatives in North America. He currently serves as Co-Chairman for the AOPA National Assembly Clinical Education Planning Committee and is former Chairman of the Outcomes Research Committee for the American Academy of Orthotists & Prosthetists. Tyler is a graduate of the Eastern Michigan University Master's in O&P program and has an MBA with specialization in Healthcare Management from Florida Institute of Technology. He has published numerous peer-reviewed manuscripts related to O&P, contributed to two textbook chapters, and also authored AAOP's first Outcome Measure Toolkit for Lower Limb Prosthetics.
  • New!

    Lab: Molded Realities: The Art and Science of Plaster and Plastic
    Contains 3 Component(s), Includes Credits

    This session features the 2025 National Assembly session Lab: Molded Realities: The Art and Science of Plaster and Plastic.

    Calling all emerging technicians and practitioners ready to dive into the art and science of prosthetic and orthotic fabrication! Session Two of this course will guide you through the lamination process, highlighting key techniques and finishing touches that elevate the final product. Gain practical insights to build both confidence and craftsmanship in your work.

    This course is worth 1.75 scientific credits. If you attended this session at the 2025 National Assembly, please note you will not receive credit again.

    Brad Mattear, LO, CPA, CFo

    Brad Mattear, LO, CPA, CFo

    O&P Central Fabrication Program Manager

    Shriners Hospital for Children

  • New!

    Lessons from Clinical Practice Abroad Inform Practice at Home
    Contains 3 Component(s), Includes Credits

    This session features the 2025 National Assembly session Lessons from Clinical Practice Abroad Inform Practice at Home.

    O&P practice around the world is different from care in the United States in many ways including barriers to entry and physical delivery. However, powerful lessons can be drawn from care abroad to inform care domestically. Experience and insights from O&P professionals practicing in Eastern Europe, Central America, and Asia in the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors will be shared.

    This course is worth 1.75 scientific credits. If you attended this session at the 2025 National Assembly, please note you will not receive credit again.

    Kinsey Herrin, MSPO, CPO, LPO, FAAOP

    Kinsey Herrin, MSPO, CPO, LPO, FAAOP

    Senior Research Scientist

    Georgia Institute of Technology

    Kinsey Herrin is a Senior Research Scientist in the Woodruff George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Human Interface Design, Development and Engineering Lab. She has an M.S. in Prosthetics and Orthotics from the Georgia Institute of Technology and completed her orthotics residency at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and prosthetics residency at the University of Michigan O&P Center. Her research focuses on the development and testing of new and existing advanced exoskeletons and prostheses for real world community mobility. She is passionate about improving mobility and independence for people with physical challenges.
    Katie Leatherwood, CPO

    Katie Leatherwood, CPO

    Director

    Design to Live

    Katie Marie Leatherwood, CPO is from Texas, USA. She worked professionally as a Prosthetist and Orthotist in USA since 2009, before moving to Latvia in 2015. Katie is the director of SIA Designed to Live Ortopēdija in Cēsis, Latvia. Since 2022, she has implemented additive manufacturing (3D printing) and digital design as her primary prosthetic design and fabrication method. She is known internationally for her successful and scaled use of 3d printing in prosthetic care. Katie is the director of Designed to Live, a non-profit organization that supports the provision of prosthetic care for patients both in Latvia and Ukraine. She has unique experience in providing prosthetic care to post-war trauma amputees and in less-resourced countries, providing care in Latvia, Ukraine, Kosovo, Kenya, and Jordan.
    Ana Groff, CPO, MSPO, PT, DPT

    Ana Groff, CPO, MSPO, PT, DPT

    Director of Orthotic and Prosthetic Services

    Fundacion Teleton Honduras

    Ana Groff, CPO, MSPO, PT, DPT is the director of prosthetic and orthotic services for a non-profit, Fundacion Teleton, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. In partnership with Teleton, she is also contracted with the university UNITEC for the development of an accredited Prosthetic and Orthotic Program to initiate the career and title in Honduras. She is a certified prosthetist and orthotist (CPO) as well a licensed physical therapist with a focus in providing rehabilitation and training for patients with amputations. She is a graduate of the Georgia Tech MSPO and the UConn DPT programs. Her interests are in orthotic and prosthetic and rehabilitation provision in underserved areas and developing countries. Prior to moving to Honduras, she worked as a CPO for Hanger Clinic in Tuscon, AZ. There, her volunteer time was spent providing services and training staff in two non-profit clinics in Mexico. Her research and time focus on development of holistic and self-sustainable clinics and educational programs to develop a higher standard of care in low resource areas.
    Jeff Erenstone, CPO

    Jeff Erenstone, CPO

    Jeff Erenstone, CPO is the founder, owner and head clinician of Mountain O&P Services in lake placid, NY. Over the last decade, Jeff has built a practice specializing in custom and small production designs for adaptive athletes of all skill levels, from paralympians to amputees trying new sports. In 2018 he founded Operation Namaste, a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization devoted to improving prosthetic care around the world, especially in Nepal. He is a member of the AOPA National Assembly Planning Committee and Tech. Committee, and a regular volunteer for Camp No Limits.
  • New!

    Shared Decision-Making in O&P: How to Incorporate Patient Preference
    Contains 3 Component(s), Includes Credits

    This session features the 2025 National Assembly session Shared Decision-Making in O&P: How to Incorporate Patient Preference.

    The goal of this session is to share multiple ongoing efforts to expand shared decision-making in the O&P field. As we push towards value-based care, involving the patient’s priorities and preferences will be paramount to ensuring we are delivering an improved outcome to our patients. Attendees will take away useful skills of how to start implementing shared decision-making into their practice, current tools that are in development and will be available to clinicians soon, and how AI is being used to make this process easier during clinical encounters.

    This course is worth 1.75 scientific credits. If you attended this session at the 2025 National Assembly, please note you will not receive credit again.

    Emily Steffensen, PhD, CPO

    Emily Steffensen, PhD, CPO

    Clinician-Scientist

    Hanger Clinic & Hanger Institute for Clinical Research & Education

    Emily is an ABC-certified prosthetist/orthotist and biomechanist working both as a clinician and research scientist with Hanger Clinic and Clinical & Scientific Affairs. Her clinic location is within Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska, and she enjoys working alongside the rehabilitation team treating a variety of patient populations. Her research interests include orthotic and prosthetic interventions, gait biomechanics, and rehabilitation of injuries and disorders that affect mobility. Her past research has largely been in post-stroke gait rehabilitation, and currently uses her clinical and research skills to conduct patient-centered research in O&P.
    Bretta Fylstra, PhD

    Bretta Fylstra, PhD

    Research Scientist

    Hanger Institute for Clinical Research and Education

    Bretta is a Research Scientist within Hanger's Institute for Clinical Research and Education. She has a PhD in Biomedical Engineering with a history working with powered robotic lower-limb prostheses. As a Research Scientist with Hanger, Bretta is working towards improving access to O&P technology, driving forward value-based care, and expanding evidence-based practice for the greater O&P field.
  • New!

    Current Concepts in Prosthetic Alignment
    Contains 3 Component(s), Includes Credits

    This session features the 2025 National Assembly session Current Concepts in Prosthetic Alignment.

    This presentation will review establishing a socket reference for transtibial and transfemoral alignment. Use of a vertical alignment transfer device will be reviewed, including common alignment positions, motions and pitfalls. Hands-on demonstration with check sockets and alignment jigs will be used.

    This course is worth 1.75 scientific credits. If you attended this session at the 2025 National Assembly, please note you will not receive credit again.

    Tim Fair, MSIDT, LCPO

    Tim Fair, MSIDT, LCPO

    Manager of Fabrication Training

    Hanger Fabrication Network

    In 2008, Tim began his career in O&P as a clinician yet was always involved in fabrication alongside technicians. After gaining clinical experience he shifted to education and instructed at St Petersburg College for several years, primarily focused on orthotic fabrication methods. Currently, he works for Hanger Fabrication Network and is engaged in standardizing fabrication processes and providing relevant training across the organization. Outside of work, he enjoys spending time with his wife Jenn and their two kids, which usually involves cooking, eating and a variety of different games.
    Brad Mattear, LO, CPA, CFo

    Brad Mattear, LO, CPA, CFo

    O&P Central Fabrication Program Manager

    Shriners Hospital for Children

  • New!

    Lab: Quantitative Safety Standards for Orthotic and Prosthetic Fabrication
    Contains 3 Component(s), Includes Credits

    This session features the 2025 National Assembly session Lab: Quantitative Safety Standards for Orthotic and Prosthetic Fabrication.

    Quantitative safety standards for the fabrication of thermoplastic and composite orthotics and prosthetics. I will outline the need to standardize four main areas: fire safety, chemical handling and storage, fume extraction, and dust collection. All changes must not disturb the structure or envelope of the building, and products must be available worldwide for any grid system.

    This course is worth 1.75 scientific credits. If you attended this session at the 2025 National Assembly, please note you will not receive credit again.

    Niles Leonard

    Niles Leonard

    CEO

    Leonard Industries

    Niles Leonard currently serves as president of Leonard Industries. Niles has been building O and P tools and labs for 22 years. Starting as a technician while in college, Niles founded Leonard Industries in 2005 to build better safer tools for technicians by technicians. Today Niles designs and builds labs across the country, and ships high quality custom fabrication hardware worldwide.
    Joanna Kenton, MHA, CPO, LPO, FAAOP

    Joanna Kenton, MHA, CPO, LPO, FAAOP

    Faculty

    Century College

  • New!

    Diabetes, Obesity, Your Patients and Our Society
    Contains 3 Component(s), Includes Credits

    This session features the 2025 National Assembly session Diabetes, Obesity, Your Patients and Our Society.

    One of the most prominently featured aspects of modern POP care is limb loss prevention. Pedorthists, orthotists, prosthetists, physicians, diabetes educators…we’re all trying desperately to preserve limbs in our diabetic population. Try as we may, however, we cannot win this battle without a foundational shift occurring within our collective American mindset. There is an incredibly strong argument to be made that amputation prevention begins with diabetes prevention. If this change in thinking and attitude does not change, amputations will continue to increase as our twin diabetes and obesity epidemics charge forward wholly unchecked.

    This course is worth 1.75 scientific credits. If you attended this session at the 2025 National Assembly, please note you will not receive credit again.

    Dennis Janisse, CPed

    Dennis Janisse, CPed

    President

    National Pedorthic Services, Inc

    Dennis Janisse is President and CEO of National Pedorthic Services, Inc., a network of full-service Pedorthic facilities. In addition to his duties at NPS, Mr. Janisse is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Dennis is presently on the Board of Directors of American Board for Certification in orthotics, prosthetics, and Pedorthics and a consultant for Dr. Comfort, subsidiary of DJO Global. He teaches pedorthics courses at Northwestern University Medical School and the Medical College of Wisconsin. He is past President of the Pedorthic Footwear Association and an honorary member of the American Orthopedic Foot and Ankle Society. He has written extensively on all aspects of Pedorthics, with over 50 publications to his credit and has lectured throughout the United States and the world.
    Erick Janisse, CO, CPed

    Erick Janisse, CO, CPed

    Educator

    Enovis - DJO

    Erick Janisse, CO, CPed is a corporate trainer with Enovis/Dr Comfort Footwear. He has over 25 years of experience in patient care and is a respected educator and author. He has served as invited faculty for courses and symposia presented by the American Orthopedic Foot and Ankle Society, Washington University School of Medicine and Scott and White Healthcare. Mr. Janisse is past member of the PFA Board of Directors and a past Chairman of PFA’s Council on Pedorthic Education. He also serves on AOPA's Assembly Planning Committee and has served on task forces and committees for ABC.
  • New!

    Lab: The Most Practical Alternative to Custom Shoes: Relasting
    Contains 3 Component(s), Includes Credits

    This session features the 2025 National Assembly session Lab: The Most Practical Alternative to Custom Shoes: Relasting.

    Custom shoes can be very expensive, take weeks, if not months, to be made and – let’s face it – are not always aesthetically pleasing to our patients. Relasting – widening a commercially available shoe to customize it – is a useful and practical alternative. The modification can be made to accommodate any number of foot deformities but is most frequently used to accommodate the Charcot foot. In this live lab demonstration, you will learn how to perform relast modifications and incorporate them into your patient care toolbox.

    This course is worth 1.75 scientific credits. If you attended this session at the 2025 National Assembly, please note you will not receive credit again.

    Jeremy Janisse, CPed, COA

    Jeremy Janisse, CPed, COA

    Co-Owner, Pedorthist

    National Pedorthic Services, Inc.

    Jeremy Janisse is a co-owner and pedorthist for National Pedorthic Services, Inc. Jeremy recently returned to NPS after 7 years as the Senior Lab Manager at Dr Comfort. In this role, he led one of the largest orthotic fabrication labs in the country. Prior to that, Jeremy was a clinical pedorthist and led the fabrication lab at National Pedorthic Services. Jeremy’s current practice is focused primarily on orthotic treatment for foot and ankle pathologies. He has lectured on and provided hands-on sessions centered around industry-leading fabrication techniques, demonstrating how his students could incorporate these methods and techniques into their own practices. He is currently core faculty for the Midwest School of Modern Pedorthics (MSMP). Outside of work, Jeremy spends time with his family, his wife of 21 years, 3 children and 1 grandchild. He loves to read and spend time in the woods on his hunting property in western Wisconsin.
    Dennis Janisse, CPed

    Dennis Janisse, CPed

    President

    National Pedorthic Services, Inc

    Dennis Janisse is President and CEO of National Pedorthic Services, Inc., a network of full-service Pedorthic facilities. In addition to his duties at NPS, Mr. Janisse is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Dennis is presently on the Board of Directors of American Board for Certification in orthotics, prosthetics, and Pedorthics and a consultant for Dr. Comfort, subsidiary of DJO Global. He teaches pedorthics courses at Northwestern University Medical School and the Medical College of Wisconsin. He is past President of the Pedorthic Footwear Association and an honorary member of the American Orthopedic Foot and Ankle Society. He has written extensively on all aspects of Pedorthics, with over 50 publications to his credit and has lectured throughout the United States and the world.