Jamie Bergner has over 20 years of clinical expertise as an experienced occupational therapist specializing in the care of clients after hand and upper extremity trauma, injury and surgery. She is a Certified Hand Therapist (CHT) and a Certified Orthopedic Manual Therapist (COMT) and a full-time clinician at a Level I trauma center for Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. Jamie is passionate about mentoring and teaching, and teaches online graduate courses as an adjunct faculty for the MSOT Program at Cox College in Springfield, Missouri. Continuing her own professional development, she obtained her post-professional doctorate in occupational therapy with an elective track in academic education from Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions in 2016. Jamie teaches live courses with the IAOM-US Hand and Upper Extremity Track, is an instructor with MedBridge teaching online continuing education courses, and has presented at numerous local, state, and national conferences. Invested in clinician-led research, Jamie has published in multiple peer-reviewed journals including the Journal of Hand Therapy, the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery, the American Journal of Occupational Therapy and OT Practice magazine.
Disclaimer: Jamie Bergner also teaches online content through MedBrigde and gets paid for these courses. MedBridge has a collaboration with IAOM-US. The courses taught by Jamie both at IAOM-US and Medbrige are mentioned at the beginning of each course.