BOC names Terri McLeod award winner
By HME News Staff
Updated 9:45 AM CST, Tue December 13, 2022
OWINGS MILLS, Md. - The board of directors of the Board of Certification/Accreditation (BOC) has named Theresa “Terri” McLeod, CMF, COF, as the 2022 recipient of the Jim Newberry Award for Extraordinary Service. The award recognizes outstanding individuals who perform extraordinary service to BOC, the community of stakeholders the organization serves and those who live out the superior example modeled by Newberry during his more than four decades in the field of orthotics and prosthetics. “Terri has shown the same kind of passion for and commitment to BOC that defined our good friend Jim Newberry,” says BOC’s president & CEO Claudia Zacharias, MBA, CAE. “Our board is proud to award her with this honor.” John Kenny, PhD, BOCO, a past Newberry Award winner and former chairman of the BOC’s board of directors, nominated McLeod, who was trained as a BOC Certified Mastectomy Fitter (CMF) by Newberry himself in 1985, for the award. Beginning in 2005, she served as a test development volunteer for BOC CMF exams and, in 2007, she joined the board of directors, where she lent her expertise for nine years. When CMS began requiring mastectomy fitters to obtain certification in 2009, McLeod guided others in her profession toward certification so they could continue providing patients with the fittings they needed.
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