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2021 POPS Board Member Election
Please vote in the following categories:
Voting will be open for membership for the next 7 days and will close at 5pm Central time on 4/26/21
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Vice President
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Jessica Staschak MSN, CPNP
Jessica has served as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner for the Division of Orthopaedic Surgery at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia since May of 2007. Her clinical expertise includes caring for patients with a wide range of diagnoses including lower extremity deformities, clubfoot, neuromuscular disorders, scoliosis, fractures, trauma, and many other general pediatric orthopaedic problems. She been a member of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Practitioner Society since 2008 and has most recently served as Member at Large for POPS. Her recent contributions have included serving as co-chair for the POPS Symposium for POSNA for the last two years, participating in POPS Conference Committee, and serving as a speaker and planning committee member for the 2018 POPS IPOS committee. In addition, she has served as past Chair and past Co-Chair for the Pediatric Orthopaedic Special Interest Group for National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners as well as a member of the planning committee and speaker for the 2019 NAPNAP specialty symposium on musculoskeletal conditions in children. She is passionate about providing excellent care to pediatric orthopaedic patients as well as helping to provide leadership opportunities and educational opportunities for advanced practice providers in pediatric orthopaedics. She would like to see Pediatric Orthopaedic Practitioner Society continue to promote excellence in pediatric orthopaedic practice, serve as a resource for membership and provide opportunities for collaboration and networking for POPS membership. She would be honored to serve on the POPS board as Vice President and hopes to have the opportunity to help lead POPS into a bright future.
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Treasurer
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Valerie Parrish PA-C
Valerie Parrish is a Physician Assistant in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Texas Children’s Hospital. She attended the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky where she obtained her Bachelor of Science in Health and Human Performance with a concentration in Exercise Science in 2009 and Master of Science in Exercise Physiology in 2011. She then attended Sullivan University in Louisville, Kentucky and obtained her Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies in 2016. She has been at Texas Children’s Hospital since the beginning of her career. She focuses her care on childhood, adolescent and young adult hip disorders. She works with Dr. Scott Rosenfeld as part of the Texas Children’s Hip Preservation Program. She has previously presented at POPS (2019) and will be presenting at the upcoming POPS meeting and a faculty instructor at IPOS 2021. She actively involved as a member of the conference committee for both POPS (2022) and IPOS (2021).
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Secretary
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Colleen M. Story, MSN, BSN, APRN, FNP-C
I have been a nurse for over 35 years and a nurse practitioner for almost 20 years. I currently work part time in pediatric orthopedics and run an independent, general orthopedic practice. I am also an instructor at LSUHSC School of Nursing in New Orleans, Louisiana, teaching pediatric nursing. I am involved in Louisiana Association of Nurse Practitioners, American Association of Nurse Practitioners, National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, and Pediatric Orthopedic Practitioners Society. I am currently serving as chair of the Pediatric Orthopedic Special Interest Group of NAPNAP, and work with the development committee of NAPNAP Partners for Vulnerable Youth and on the Education Committee of the e-Chapter. I am also a member of American Nurses Association, Louisiana Nurses Association and Louisiana District Nursing Association. I have presented at local, national and international meetings. I love cycling and doing half marathons.
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Member at Large (MAL) Webmaster
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Sheila Mason, DNP, RN, PNP-PC
I am a pediatric nurse practitioner at Brenner Children's. I completed my BSN in 2012 at Jefferson College of Health Sciences and then my DNP from the Medical University of South Carolina in 2018. I joined the orthopedic team in 2015 and after completing graduate studies remained with the team to develop a unique role as a pediatric nurse practitioner.
My practice encompasses all aspects of pediatric orthopedic care including outpatient, surgical and inpatient care of patients from birth into young adulthood. This is supported through the use of patient and family centered care models and active engagement in professional development.
In addition to evaluating and treating a wide variety of pediatric musculoskeletal conditions, I serve as the lead provider for our pediatric amputee clinic. I have a special interest in complex congenital limb deformities and work closely with our team of pediatric orthopedic surgeons in the evaluation and management of these conditions.
Working in conjunction with a variety of specialty departments I have created two specialty clinics for medically complex children. Our pediatric health optimization clinic ensures that patients are medically prepared for complex orthopedic surgeries to reduce risk and improve recovery. Additionally, I have partnered with pediatric endocrinology to offer a pediatric bone health clinic to assess and treat bone fragility in the young child.
Professional roles include improving access to pediatric amputee gait analysis, research, and education to multidisciplinary teams and engagement. She currently serves on conference committees for POPS and IPOS and looks forward to continued involvement within the POPS community.
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5.
Member at Large (MAL)
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people)
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Gerad Montgomery MSN, FNP-C
Gerad Montgomery is a Family Nurse Practitioner at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children. He graduated from Baylor University in 2006 and joined the pediatric orthopedic practice at Children’s Medical Center in Dallas where he was part of the sports medicine team and covered orthopedic trauma call at the level one pediatric trauma center. While working at Children’s, Gerad was a member of the Advanced Practice Provider (APP) Leadership Team and served as the Manager for the Orthopedic Team of APPs at Children’s Plano campus. In 2015, Gerad left Children’s Medical Center to pursue an opportunity helping to develop an acute-care fracture program at Texas Scottish Rite where he now serves as the Director of the Fracture Program.
Gerad has a passion for education and has presented both locally and nationally on various pediatric orthopedic and sports medicine-related topics. For the past year and a half He has served on the board of the Pediatric Orthopedic Practitioner Society (POPS) as an interim Member at Large as well as on the Pediatric Orthopedic SIG committee for NAPNAP. Gerad has presented at the NAPNAP annual conference and to his peers at POPS on several occasions over the past 10 years. He has served as POPS faculty and given several podium presentations at the International Pediatric Orthopedic Symposium (IPOS). He is currently a Program Chair for the Sports Medicine Educational Series at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital and coordinates monthly educational programs for local pediatrician and community health care professionals. As an active member in his community, Gerad guest lectures at local universities and frequently precepts residents, fellows and NP/PA students.
Megan Lomax PA-C
Megan is a pediatric orthopedic physician assistant at Texas Children's Hospital (TCH) in Houston, Texas. She graduated from Mississippi College in 2016 with her Masters of Physician Assistant Studies. She then completed the pediatric orthopedic PA fellowship at TCH as a member of the inaugural class. Since graduating from the fellowship, Megan has been practicing at Texas Children's in the department of orthopedics. Her passion is cerebral palsy. She leads a monthly multidisciplinary movement disorder video rounds conference. Megan also serves as the clerkship director for the cerebral palsy rotation of the surgical PA fellowship and the division's research and quality improvement coordinator for advanced practice providers. Megan has been an active member of POPS for the past 3 years. She has given a presentation at the annual POPS conference in 2019. She is a current member for the POPS at IPOS committee and looks forward to the opportunity to serve as one of the members at large for POPS.
Nicole Tweedy PNP
Nicole Tweedy has been a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner since 2017. She graduated from Sinclair school of nursing at MU (Mizzou) and subsequently attended their doctoral program beginning in 2011.She currently works at Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Columbia MO with their Children’s orthopedics department primarily with Dr. Daniel Hoernschemeyer. Primary practice is scoliosis and skeletal dysplasia. She has 2 precious boys under the age of 3 and spends most of her time outside of work chasing them around!
