Tag: executive director
Clinician Task Force names new leader
December 10, 2024HME News Staff
YARMOUTH, Maine – The Clinician Task Force will have a new executive director, Tamara Kittelson, starting in January 2025. Kittelson is an occupational therapist, RESNA-certified ATP/SMS and ISWP-certified intermediate wheelchair provider who has worked in the complex rehab industry for 39 years. She founded Posture 24/7 and Eleanore’s Project, promoting 24-hour posture care management and appropriate seating and wheeled mobility provision in low resource settings, and has presented and...
Andrea Madsen on NRRTS’s ‘unifying factor’
December 8, 2023Liz Beaulieu, Editor
LUBBOCK, Texas – Andrea Madsen has the perfect combination of experience for a NRRTS executive director – she started her career in a business role and then became an ATP and CRTS.
Here’s what Madsen, who replaces Weesie Walker and who most recently worked at Numotion and was treasurer of NRRTS, had to say about her roots in business, her passion for complex rehab and her plans for the organization.
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NRRTS names new leader
November 13, 2023HME News Staff
LUBBOCK, Texas – NRRTS has selected Andrea Madsen, ATP, CRTS, as its new executive director effective today, Nov. 13, replacing Weesie Walker. Madsen, who previously served as the treasurer of the organization, brings more than 20 years of experience in the health care industry to her new role. “I know Andrea will be a tremendous asset in the role of executive director and I plan to help make this transition as smooth as possible,” said Walker, ATP/SMS. Madsen has been a NRRTS registrant...
NRRTS searches for new leader
December 28, 2022HME News Staff
LUBBOCK, Texas – NRRTS has begun searching for an executive director to replace Weesie Walker, ATP/SMS.
Walker, who has led NRRTS for nine years, will remain involved in the organization, but will focus on the CRT Supplier Certificate Program.
“Few things in life can be more rewarding than supporting the professionals who provide technology for people with disabilities,” Walker wrote in “Weesie’s World” in the latest issue of the organization's...