Kim Ratner is a graduate of Ithaca College with a BS in Physical Therapy and is currently pursuing her MS degree in Healthcare Administration from Seton Hall University. She has been employed at Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation in NJ for 15 years. Kim began her career at Kessler on the SCI team for 6 years and was promoted to the position of Senior Therapist for the Ventilator Dependent SCI Program while concurrently working part time at a private orthopedic practice. She then had the unique opportunity to transfer into the position of District Manager for Kessler overseeing 28 of their outpatient Orthopedic and Sports Medicine centers for five years. Throughout these experiences she had a simultaneous passion for spinal cord injury rehabilitation, orthopedics and Clinical Education and continuously sought to integrate her knowledge of Neurologic and Orthopedic rehabilitation perspectives into the treatment environment. Kim returned to the inpatient rehabilitation environment in 2003 and currently serves as the Assistant Vice President of Rehabilitation Services for Kessler’s 138-bed Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Center of Excellence, home of the Northern NJ Spinal Cord Injury Model System and the Northern NJ Traumatic Brain Injury Model System, where she currently oversees PT, OT, ST, TR and Case Management. In addition to her extensive experience in the inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation setting she has taken over 40 continuing education courses in her area of specialization. She has presented lectures at several national model system conferences and the 2007 and 2008 Contemporary Forums SCI Conference.