Pediatric Orthotics and Prosthetics Residency Program

The Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Orthotics and Prosthetics Program offers a two-year combined Pediatric Orthotics and Prosthetics Residency Program that includes clinical rotations, community involvement, and research. The residency start date depends on the graduate’s earliest availability, typically late May to mid-June.

Our program is clinically focused and designed to develop advanced practitioners of orthotics and prosthetics and to contribute to the body of knowledge in the field by participating in research.

Our Pediatric Orthotics and Prosthetics Residency Program is accredited by the National Commission on Orthotic and Prosthetic Education (NCOPE), which helps ensure the program meets established standards of quality to prepare future orthotists and prosthetists.

This residency is clinically focused, with rotations in a variety of environments within Children’s, including:

• Two large inpatient hospitals
• Inpatient, outpatient and day rehabilitation
• Orthotic and prosthetic neighborhood locations
• State-of-the-art fabrication lab
• Specialty clinics including, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, medically complex, neurology, orthopedics, pectus, physiatry, spina bifida, spasticity, and vascular anomalies. 

We also encourage residents to complete an adult and geriatric rotation.

Eligibility requirements include:

• Graduation from a program accredited by NCOPE or the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP) by the start of the residency
• Current American Red Cross CPR certification
• Reliable transportation
• Meeting all other Children’s hiring requirements

Applicants must submit an application through OPRESCAS in the fall of the year prior to the scheduled hire date in early to mid June.

For more information about our Pediatric Orthotics and Prosthetics Residency Program and the application process, contact:

Karl Barner, CPO, LPO
Director, Pediatric Orthotics and Prosthetics Residency Program
Email: karl.barner@choa.org

Lauren Levinson, CPO, LPO
Assistant Director, Pediatric Orthotics and Prosthetics Residency Program
Email: Lauren.Levinson@choa.org