Certification | Program Oversight

The Professional Standards Board provides oversight of RESNA's Certification Program.  RESNA, by action of the Board of Directors, established the Professional Standards Board ("PSB") to govern the organization's professional certification program. In governing RESNA certification programs, PSB responsibilities include:

• defining and periodically revising the standards for the certification of individual AT service providers, including exam design, development and administration;
• monitoring the interpretation and application of these standards, and assuring correction and/or update as needed;
• establishing and periodically updating policy and mechanisms for evaluating and acting on complaints and appeals relative to the award, denial, suspension or revocation of certification;
• serving as the final decision-making body for appeals; and
• assuring maintenance of a registry of certified service providers

• Gerry Dickerson ATS, CRTS, 1st Vice Chair
  
  Director of Rehab. Tech.
  Medstar, Inc.
  15-40 128th St.
  College Point, NY 11356
  Work: (718) 460-2900
  GDCRTS@aol.com
      
  
• Doug Gayton, RCA, ATP, 2nd Vice Chair
  
  104 – 735 West 15th Avenue
  Vancouver, British Columbia V5Z 1R6
  CANADA
  Work: (604) 202-8756
  Doug.Gayton@vch.ca
       
• Carmen DiGiovine, PhD, ATP, RET
  
  6 Degrees of Freedom, LLC
  20 Danada Square West, Suite 255
  Wheaton, IL 60187
  Work: (630) 752-9670
  carmen@6degreesoffreedom.com
     
• Edwin Irwin, BS, BME
  
  149 Buford Place
  Macon, GA 31204-2835
  Work: (478) 953-6800
  eirwin@merc.mercer.edu
      
  
• Carrie Kane, MS, CCC-SLP/L, ATP
  
  Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Hospital
  850 South 5th Street
  Allentown, PA 18103
  610-776-3238
  ckane@gsrh.org
    
• Alicia M. Koontz, PhD, RET, PSB Member through 2010
  
  Research Health Scientist/Assistant Professor
  Human Engineering Research Laboratories
  Director, HERL Internship Program
  Work:(412) 365-4833
  akoontz@pitt.edu 
      
• Craig A Kraft, ATP
  
  Director of Seating & Mobility
  Shriners Hospital for Children
  Tampa, FL
  Work:(813) 631-7161
  Fax: (813)866-7743
  ckraft@shrinenet.org
      
• Daniel Lipka, PSB Member through August 2009
  
  4848 Timber Creek
  Medina, OH 44256
  Work:  330-620-1040
  ddl@zoominternet.net
    
• Julie Piriano, PT, ATP
  
  Director of Rehab Industry Affairs

  jpiriano@pridemobility.com

     
  Pride Mobility Products Corp.
  800-800-8586 x 5255
• Trina Puddefoot PT, ATP
  
  9750 Gladiolus Preserve Circle
  Fort Myers, FL 33908
  Phone: (239) 313 3590
  Puddefoots@hotmail.com
     
• Richard Callaghan Simpson, ATP
  
  Assistant Professor
  University of Pittsburgh
  Forbes Tower, Suite 5044
  Pittsburgh, PA 15260
  Phone: 412-383-6593
  ris20@pitt.edu
     
• Trevor Dyson-Hudson, Member of the Public
  
  Kessler Medical Rehabilitation Research and Education Corporation
  Spinal Cord Injury Research
  1199 Pleasant Valley Way
  West Orange, NJ 07052
  Work: (800) 248-3221, x2259
  tdyson-hudson@kmrrec.org 
   
• Elizabeth Leef, Member of the Public
  
  HealthSouth Policy Fellow
  National Council on Independent Living
  1710 Rhode Island Ave, NW
  5th Floor
  Washington, DC 20036
  Voice: (202) 207-0334
  elizabeth@ncil.org
   
• Laura J. Cohen, PhD, PT, ATP, PSB Chair
  
  Rehabilitation & Technology Consultants, LLC
  134 Ridgeland Ave. Decatur, GA 30030
  Work: 404-370-6172
  laura@rehabtechconsultants.com
  
  
• Michael Babinec, Ex-Officio Board Member
  

  BS, OTR/L ABDA, ATP
  Invacare Corporation
  38683 Taylor Parkway
  North Ridgeville, OH  44039