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Debbie joined the Stanford Sports Medicine department as a staff physical therapist in January 2014.  She has a strong background in manual therapy and functional rehabilitation.  She has more than 15 years of experience working in Division I college athletics, as an athletic trainer/physical therapist working with football, swimming and diving, gymnastics, water polo, soccer, basketball, and tennis.  She provides care for all 36 varsity sports programs at Stanford.

Experience:

Debbie is a licensed physical therapist in the state of California, as well as a board-certified specialist in sports physical therapy (SCS).  In addition, she is a certified athletic trainer (ATC) and a certified strength and conditioning specialist (CSCS).  She has taught a course on upper and lower extremity rehabilitation at Loyola Marymount University in the athletic training education program.  She has co-authored a chapter on fracture management inPhysical Rehabilitation: Evidence-based Examination, Evaluation & Intervention.

?     Stanford University- Stanford, CA (2014-present)

?     Agile/Excel Physical Therapy- Palo Alto, CA (2008-14)

?     UCLA, Department of Intercollegiate Athletics- Los Angeles, CA (1999-2008)

?     UCI, Department of Intercollegiate Athletics- Irvine, CA (1997-99)

?     TherAmerica- nationwide (1995-97)

?     Kerlan-Jobe Orthopedic Clinic- Inglewood and Anaheim, CA (1994-95)

?     Children’s Hospital- Boston, MA (1993)

Education:

Debbie received her BS in kinesiology and BA in psychology from the University of California at Los Angeles, where she was a student athletic trainer for the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics.  She then obtained her MS in physical therapy from Boston University.