INSTRUCTORS

A multidisciplinary faculty will outline business and clinical considerations for establishing a balance and mobility program that is both clinically and financially successful. All of the speakers have extensive backgrounds in balance function and balance disorders, and will be available throughout the seminar. Participants will have ample opportunity to experience first-hand the different points of view from a variety of professional disciplines.

Thomas E. Boismier, MPH
Director, ENT Balance Center
Ear, Nose & Throat Associates, P.C.
Fort Wayne, IN

Tom Boismier earned his BS from Wayne State University and MPH from University of Michigan. He has 25 years of experience in clinical and research aspects of balance and vestibular science. He was directly involved in the startup of 3 successful comprehensive balance centers, and has consulted on several others. He has taught balance testing to professionals nationwide and abroad, including a 1995 teaching secondment in Addenbrooke?s NHS Trust Hospital at Cambridge University, UK. Clinical activities focus on analysis and interpretation of diagnostic tests, and their synthesis with patient history and symptoms to develop differential diagnoses with recommendations for treatment. Recent research includes studies on the use of Fukuda stepping, postural evoked response, computerized dynamic visual acuity and advanced rotation tests in the balance patient population.

Mr. Boismier has 25 years of experience in clinical and research aspects of balance and vestibular science. He was directly involved in the startup of 3 successful comprehensive balance centers, and has consulted on several others. He has taught balance testing to professionals nationwide and abroad, including a 1995 teaching secondment in Addenbrooke?s NHS Trust Hospital at Cambridge University, UK.

Rebecca English, PT, MSR, OTR/L
Charleston Specialty Rehabilitation Institute
Charleston, SC

Mrs. English received her BS in Occupational Therapy and her MS in Physical Therapy from the Medical University of South Carolina. She is an adjunct PT and OT faculty member at the Medical University of South Carolina Department of Rehabilitation Sciences. She has also successfully completed both the Herdman Vestibular Competency course and the Vestibular Function Test Interpretation and Application to Rehabilitation. In addition to her teaching and work responsibilities Ms. English was the Clinical Director of The Balance, Mobility, and Dizziness Centers of Charleston for Clemson Sports Medicine and Program Development Specialist for NextStep Rehabilitation. Rebecca has focused her clinical development on the management of vestibular and balance disordered patients. Since attending this course in 2002, Mrs. English has developed three distinct balance programs in private practice and hospital-based settings. Currently, her responsibilities include clinical practice in balance and vestibular, program development, marketing, staff development and education. She opened her own facility in July 2008.

J. Douglas Green, Jr., MD, FACS
Neurotologist, Jacksonville Hearing & Balance
Jacksonville, FL

Dr. Green received his medical degree from the University of Oklahoma. He completed his internship in general surgery, his residency in otorhinolaryngology (ear, nose and throat specialty), and earned his master’s degree in biomedical sciences at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. Green completed a fellowship in otology/neuro-otology at the internationally renowned House Ear Clinic in Los Angeles. Dr. Green is the founder of the balance program in his private neurotology clinic: now a comprehensive balance center. In addition to an active clinical practice, he is involved in clinical research trials, is published in numerous medical journals and clinical book chapters, and lectures nationally and internationally.

Jack King, Ph.D., CCC-A
Assistant Professor, MUSC College of Health Professionsv Director, Lowcountry Balance & Hearing, LLC
Charleston SC

Dr. King received his BA in English and M.Ed. in Audiology from the University of Virginia. He received his Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies (neuroscience) from the University of Miami. Dr. King was one of three investigators at the University of Virginia to receive a provisional patent for an invention that seeks to improve vestibular assessment of patients with significant hearing loss. Dr. King was the Director of the Vestibular and Balance Center at the Medical University of South Carolina for five years and currently serves as director for Lowcountry Balance & Hearing, LLC where he continues to be active in balance testing and cochlear implant programming. He has taught and lectured at the Arizona School of Health Sciences and is co-author of several peer-reviewed publications and book chapters.

Jim Megna, PT, MS, NCS
Administrative Director, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Department, Southside Hospital
President, Long Island Balance and Vestibular PT, PC- Long Island, NY

Mr. Megna is the director of a hospital based facility that provides inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation and physiatrist services. With the experience of successfully establishing balance rehabilitation clinics in the hospital based and private practice settings, he has become a national provider of training and consultative services for balance and vestibular therapy clinics. Mr. Megna has written a textbook chapter entitled ?Balance and Vestibular Rehabilitation in the Patient with Acquired Brain Injury? and has several peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals.