Faculty

You’ll work with an outstanding group of residency program mentors and curriculum instructors, all teaching at an advanced instructional level.

Susan L. Kapp, MEd, CPO, LPO
Associate Professor and Director
Education: BS, Texas A&M University, 1979; CPO, Northwestern University, 1980, 1990; MEd, University of Texas at Brownsville, 2005
Interests: Lower-limb prosthetic management, outcome measures, and innovative technologies in health professions education

William A. Carlton, CO, LO
Instructor
Education: CO, Shelby State Community College, 1981; BS, UT Southwestern Medical Center, 1983
Interests: Spine orthoses for fractures, stroke orthotic management, and diabetes

Fan Gao, PhD
Assistant Professor
Education: BE, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1996; MS, PhD, Pennsylvania State University, 2004, 2005
Interests: Assessment and treatment of movement disorders and disability due to stroke, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy, and limb loss

Leslie Gray, MEd, CPO, LPO
Assistant Professor
Education: BS, UT Southwestern Medical Center, 2002; MEd, University of Texas at Brownsville, 2007
Interests: Lower extremity prosthetic management, gait, emerging technologies, and classroom and clinical instruction

Misty Judson, CP, LP
Instructor
Education: BS, UT Southwestern Medical Center, 2007
Interests: Lower extremity prosthetic management

Miguel N. Mojica, CPO, LPO
Assistant Professor
Education: BS, UT Southwestern Medical Center, 1987
Interests: Lower extremity orthotic management for neuromuscular and neurological disorders, and orthoses for the upper extremity

Monica Schmieder, CPO, LPO
Assistant Instructor
Education: BS in Biomedical Engineering, University of Tennessee, 2005; BS in Prosthetics and Orthotics, UT Southwestern Medical Center, 2008
Interests: Biomechanics and anatomy