Senior Clinical Educator
Restorative Therapies
Nottingham, MD, United States
Laurie Magerfleisch PT, DPT is a Senior Clinical Educator at Restorative Therapies, providing clinical education and support for clinicians, researchers, and home customers who use RTI systems. While initially intent on infusing her love of hockey with her physical therapy career, she developed a passion for working with patients with neurologic conditions during an internship at Magee Rehabilitation. She has experience treating a wide variety of adult patient populations and settings and developed a specialty in treating stroke patients at while Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital.
Laurie has used a variety of FES systems in patient care, leading her to Restorative Therapies in 2018. She developed a strong interest in critical care early mobility programs and their use of non-FES and integrated FES systems. Laurie’s love of research has allowed her to collaborate with researchers around the world.
\In her current role Laurie works closely with clinicians and patients internationally providing onsite and remote education and support founded in evidence-based research and best practices. She also provides clinical expertise to internal staff for training and development. In addition,
she works seamlessly with interdepartmental teams to improve our products to meet unique clinician/patient needs.
Laurie is an integral part of our CEU program on advanced applications of integrated FES technology. She has presented on the application of FES-based therapy in neurorehabilitation and critical care at national conferences including the American Association of Critical Care
Nurses (AACCN) and the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM). She also guest-lectures annually for the DPT program at Touro University, educating on FES in the application of Activity Based Restorative Therapy programs in neurorehabilitation. Laurie enjoys having the opportunity to optimize rehabilitative and physical health outcomes by facilitating advanced education of best practices in the use of integrated FES systems across a wide range of patient populations.
Disclosure(s): Restorative Therapies: Employment (full or part time) (Ongoing)
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