Tag: Nikki Grace-Strader
Grace, Petito join VGM & Associates
October 23, 2024HME News Staff
WATERLOO, Iowa – Nikki Grace will join VGM & associate as director of OPGA and Cindi Petito will join as director of clinical networks.
Grace previously worked as the director of North American Operations for Osseointegration International, where she offered support to amputees worldwide. Grace, the 2023 O&P Woman of the Year, established Central Illinois Amputees, a nonprofit organization that raises awareness and addresses the specific challenges faced by amputees in rural areas,...
Nikki Grace-Strader on not wasting any time
September 29, 2023Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
YARMOUTH, Maine – O&P Woman of the Year Nikki Grace-Strader wears a lot of hats at Osseointegration International, but chief among them is educating patients and clinicians about osseointegration, a procedure that enabled her to walk again.
When Grace-Strader lost a leg several years after due to a spinal cord injury, she eventually underwent OI to directly connect a prosthesis to the end of her residual limb.
“I became really passionate about exploring options for patients who...