Our Story
Guiding Values
Behind every amputation procedure, there is a person who is vulnerable to despair and hopelessness. We know how to help and bring our core values to every, unique recovery journey. You too can help restore function to these distinct patients by joining our purposeful mission.
Patient Centered Care
Every person is unique & our adaptive model evolves to support recovery progress. Exceptional patient care drives us. Step inside one of our clinics to see remarkable recoveries daily.
Pursuit Of Excellence
Every task is meaningful and is the foundation for success. Every patient touchpoint has been refined for the best result and patient satisfaction.
Mission Driven
Our initiatives are all rooted in our mantra to radically improve amputee outcomes. Better results fire our motivations to go further and improve the quality of life for amputees and their families.
Passionate Leadership
In 2008, we set out to upend routine amputee care across the nation. Our passionate pursuit has proven that limb loss patients can recapture their independence and pursue their dreams.
The Doers
We’re prosthetists, healthcare administrators, financial wizards, compliance officers, creative collaborators, and technicians forging for the best amputee outcomes. Our team does discomfort well as we push out of the comfy status quo of typical amputee care.
We’ve embraced the challenge to try new approaches, learn new skills, and always advocate for better amputee pathways.
Ted MacDonald, CMPE
CEO
Ted MacDonald
Ted has successfully led start-ups and some of the largest physician practices in the southeast. While always claiming to be a bean counter, he is the chief champion of integrated, prosthetic clinics since the inception in 2009. Ted’s career has spanned everything from taking a start-up public with an evaluation of over $400M to opening the first integrated prosthetics clinic. Let’s talk today about replicating this proven model into your practice!
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Macy Golden
VP of Business
Macy Golden
Macy pilots finance, administration, and H.R. functions with precision with deep healthcare experience under her belt. Her detail proficiency assures accurate financial statements, compliance, claim appeals and reimbursements. Clients, colleagues, and employees alike depend on her to navigate the ever-evolving healthcare environment.
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Alliyah Harden
Human Resources Coordinator
Alliyah Harden
Alliyah's knack for connecting to our team leaves us in awe. While her formal expertise involves the mundane things like payroll, recruiting, and compliance, her ability to create links to both internal and external clients is her super skill. She knows your birthday, life story, and what makes you tick.
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Jenny Penner, CPO
Prosthetic Training & Support Specialist
Jenny Penner, CPO
Jenny leverages her seven years of experience as a Certified Prosthetist Orthotist to train and support the clinicians and liaisons who care for our patients across all our clinics. Her clinical insight and guidance equip the care teams with the tools needed to stay focused on what truly matters most—the patients.
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Martha Booker
Prosthetic Coordinator
Martha Booker
Martha has over a decade of advocating for patients with a knack of organizing the necessary care seamlessly. She helps patients get back on their feet!
As your one your point of contact in Knoxville, TN, she is a fierce advocate who fights for every limb-loss patient and their family like they’re her own.
You are lucky to have Martha in your corner.
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Aaron Fitzsimmons, ABC Certified CP, OTR
Founder & Chief Prosthetics Officer
Aaron Fitzsimmons
Aaron is all about restoring function to amputees with integrated care and optimal prosthetics. His passion for pediatrics grew from working at St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital amputee clinic and has a loyal following that stretches across North America. As the co-founder of Amputee Blade Runners, Aaron has equipped countless children with running legs at no cost to them. He also developed the first physician based prosthetic residency program certified by NCOPE that offers a comprehensive training program for prosthetic residents through integrated prosthetics, amputation surgery and coordination all at one site.
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Christina Odom
VP of Clinical Operations
Christina Odom
Christina charters the clinical management for all our clinics. She recruits, hires, manages, and collaborates with clinic coordinators. Her dedication to excellence and compliance keeps the clinics running smoothly and with the highest patient satisfaction and reimbursement rate in the industry.
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Isa Dauti
RCMS
Isa Dauti
Isa monitors the revenue streams for all our clinics with a keen emphasis on metrics and analytics. His world revolves around operational efficiency, accuracy, and visible compliance. Our unique process consists of identifying, managing, and collecting revenue in the complicated prosthetics realm.
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Olivia Bush
Bookkeeper & Executive Assistant
Olivia Bush
Olivia is keeper of all numbers and projections. She meticulously tracks performance and helps guide the team with tactical resources for maximum returns. While her main emphasis is on the numbers, she equally monitors patient outcomes to press the performance envelope.
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Sue Dyke
Prosthetic Coordinator
Sue Dyke
For over a decade, Sue has guided hundreds of new prosthetics users to restoration. She knows how to overcome challenges and keep patients focused on regaining their mobility. Her legacy is the countless limb loss patients who return to an independent lifestyle. Patients around Flint, MI are lucky to have her as a resource.
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Zach Weber, ABC Certified CP
COO
Zach Weber
Zach directs the clinical operations with a primary focus to improve amputee outcomes at all our clinics that includes training, compliance, documentation, acute care protocols, and surgical recommendations. Zach has relentlessly researched the advanced surgical techniques that include modified through knee and osteomyoplastic reconstruction that are now widely adopted and accepted as the best practices. His continued education seminars and videos are wildly popular and have helped providers better serve this distinct patient profile across the nation.
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Joshua Southards
Director of Sales & Development
Joshua Southards
Joshua has been advocating for limb loss patients and their families for over a decade. He has equipped more children with athletic prostheses than anyone in the nation. Now, he is working to expand quality amputee care that is accessible to all. If you manage or own a medical clinic, let's talk about how you too can elevate amputee outcomes and become part of Amputee Associates!
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Linsay Blalock
Director of Revenue Cycle Management
Linsay Blalock
Linsay oversees care coordinators with a focus on Medicare/Medicaid/insurance compliance to assure solid revenue streams. She is our expert on current reimbursement and compliance regulations for fewer appeals and better cash flows. Linsay makes managing complicated prosthetic claims look effortless.
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Tamela Soltis
Marketing & Brand Manager
Jennifer Price
Prosthetic Coordinator
Jennifer Price
Jennifer guides limb loss patients through the recovery while coordinating care with the prosthetist and physicians. She works with the care team to make sure that any issues are addressed quickly and strives to keep the healing process on track. She makes all your appointments and will keep them coordianted with the patient's surgical follow-ups.
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Ciara McMullen
Prosthetic Coordinator
Ciara McMullen
Ciara has been helping patients navigate through a wide variety of health challenges and now she excited to help limb loss patients regain their mobility. She knows how to overcome challenges and keep focused on recovery. Her goal is to help limb loss patients recapture an independent lifestyle do things they love again.
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