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.

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.

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.

Jack King, Ph.D., CCC-A
Assistant Professor and Director
MUSC Vestibular & Balance Program
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 is the hallmark of a current grant preparation that seeks to improve vestibular assessment of patients with significant hearing loss. Dr. King is the Director of the Vestibular and Balance Center at the Medical University of South Carolina, active in balance testing and the cochlear implant research program. He has taught and lectured at the Arizona School of Health Sciences and is co-author of several peer-reviewed publications and book chapters in the area of audiology.

Marcia Hall Thompson, PT, DPT
Clinical Education Manager
NeuroCom International, Inc.
Clackamas, OR

Dr. Thompson graduated with a BS in Physical Therapy from Russell Sage College and a clinical doctorate (DPT) in Physical Therapy from the University of the Pacific. She is currently a doctoral candidate in the advanced neurology DSc program at Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions. Dr. Thompson has more than 20 years of experience in patient care and program management. She has started two successful balance programs in small and large hospital-based outpatient settings. As NeuroCom’s Clinical Education Manager, Dr. Thompson educates balance teams in the integration of NeuroCom products into their clinical practice and program development.