Consultant, Expert Witness, Educator & Facilitator:

Prosthetics, Orthotics, Rehabilitation, & related issues.  Over 25 years clinical experience post education, training, and Board Certification in prosthetics & orthotics.  Service, experience, and leadership in academic, university, and private practice settings.  Twenty years experience advocating for amputees by providing prosthetic lifetime cost projection reports;  17 years experience as an expert witness.  Consultant and advisor to state Medicaid programs 1992 - 2004 and regional or state BCBS insurance programs since 2000.

Expertise through education, training, experience, leadership, and personal standards.  Excellence in outcomes achieved by ability to research and analyze current challenges and utilize the ultimate in technology.

In June of 2011, I joined Southern Prosthetic Supply (SPS) of Alpharetta, GA.  My position is Director of Clinical and Technical Services.  SPS is the world's largest distributor of prosthetic and orthotic components, materials, and supplies distributing over 3000 different products.  The Clinical and Technical Services team provides education and training to our Customer Service Reps who take phone orders for products, train our Sales Managers who call on customer practices and practitioners, and most important, we provide "hands on, one on one" training to our practitioners customers while working with their patients, in their practice facilities.  This latter type of practitioner training is primarily in high tech, microprocessor hands, knees, and feet that require programing using proprietary software and a computer.  My contact information at SPS is located at the lower right hand corner of each of these pages.  I will continue to provide my consultation services as described on page two of this site (Services Provided).

 Mission Statement:

To provide expert consulting services responsive to client needs and requests, based on my education, training, experience, knowledge, and/or research, in a timely and thorough manner.

Vision Statement:

Unyielding pursuit of excellence in attitude and performance utilizing the ultimate in technology to enhance my education, training, experience, knowledge, and research skills.

 Keywords 

This website contains information  about expert witness consultation in prosthetics, orthotics and rehabilitation.  It includes liability issues, depositions, court appearances, expert testimony.  It also includes expert defense services for prosthetic orthotic companies, firms, practitioners, and employees who are engaged as a defendent in a legal action.  It concerns defense services for surgeons sued for amputation outcomes.  It concerns amputees, life expectancy and prosthetic lifetime cost estimates.  Included are amputations, amputation level selection, traumatic amputations, elective amputations,  limb salvage versus amputation, surgeon procedures, outcomes and defense.  Further, it addresses patient care, standards, compliance, Medicare, Medicaid, private insurance, patient notes and charting issues, peer review, patient care plans and consultation, prosthetic design consultation, prosthetic socket design and variations, unique prosthetic design consultation, amputee challenges to prosthetic practitioners, orthopedic braces, diabetic care, diabetic amputation, disability consultation, motor vehicle accidents, motor vehicle trauma, electrical trauma and burns, back braces, all types of braces.  The site includes curriculum vitae, cv, , certification, experience, clients, documents, prosthetic science, and publications.  The web site author and owner is C. Michael Schuch, CPO, FISPO, FAAOP.

Education..Experience..Expertise

Excellence

Recently named & recognized by

"Cambridge Who's Who in Professions and Business"

2010 - 2011 Edition

Contact:

 mschuch@spsco.com

or

mscsll@gmail.com

Cell:          919.889.0502           

Office:       678.455.8861

• 37 years of O & P experience; over 30 years post Board Certification experience;
• Experience in renowned University settings and in private practice settings;
• Over 100 clinical, scientific and educational presentations throughout the US and eight foreign countries;
• Authored and published in educational texts and atlases (three major chapters) and numerous peer-reviewed medical, orthotic and prosthetic journals (over a dozen journal articles);
• Fellow status in the American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists(AAOP,   I was the first designated Fellow of AAOP) and Fellow status in the International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics (ISPO);
• Have served as board director, officer, and President of AAOP, American Orthotic & Prosthetic Association(AOPA), & US ISPO; as board director of ISPO International; as commissioner of the National Commission for Orthotic and Prosthetic Education (NCOPE);
• Editorial board service for the Journal of Prosthetics & Orthotics (JPO) andProsthetics & Orthotics International;  4 years as Chair and Editor in Chief of  JPO;
• Served as Chair and Organizer of clinical education programs for AAOP (numerous Academy national symposiums and continuing education conferences), for AOPA (numerous national Assemblies), recently Chair of the AOPA National Assembly Clinical Ed Workgroup for fourth year in a row, and for ISPO international symposia and instructional courses.

For a full cv, 14 pages, click on the link below and add cv request to the subject line....

          mscsllc@gmail.com

or click on the link below:

Michael Schuch CV

Core Values:

• Positive, can do attitude
• Honesty & integrity
• Effective & efficient
• Thorough & complete
• Belief in the "Power of Nice"
• 2nd best is unacceptable

Mantras

People oriented....results driven!

Your attitude determines your altitude!

To be blessed, you should be a blessing!

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care!