January 31, 2005

For Immediate Release

For Information Contact: Cathie Griffith, President
PrimeCare O&P Network, LLC, (888) 388-5243

PrimeCare O&P Network Elects New Board Members

The PrimeCare O&P Network recently elected new members and officers to its Board of Directors.

Daniel G. Oglesby, Jr., CPO, President, Alabama Center for Prosthetics & Orthotics, Inc., dba Birmingham Limb and Brace, is a second-generation orthotist who received his B.A. from Jacksonville State University, and subsequent prosthetic and orthotic training at Shelby State Community College in Memphis, TN. He is a past president of the Louisiana Orthotics & Prosthetics Association, and a former board member of the Cerebral Palsy Association of New Orleans. He has served as an examiner for the American Board for Certification in both prosthetics and orthotics, and has also served on various AOPA committees, and chaired their insurance committee.

He was a contributing author to “The Atlas of Limb Prosthetics & Surgical and Prosthetics Principles” (Second Edition, 1992).

John Reynolds, CPO, Reynolds Prosthetics & Orthotics, Inc., is a 1982 graduate of Clayton State, and holds certificates in orthotics and prosthetics from Northwestern University. He has previously served on the ABC Board of Directors, and as ABC President in 2001. He is currently serving on the AOPA Board of Directors and is also a member of the ABC CPM examination team. In addition, he operates two full-time patient care facilities in Maryville and Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Oglesby and Reynolds were elected to Board membership in October, and installed with newly-elected officers: Chairman W. Clint Snell, CPO, Snell’s Limbs & Braces, Inc., Shreveport, Louisiana; Vice Chairman Frank Snell, CPO, FAAOP, Snell Prosthetic & Orthotic Laboratory, Little Rock, Arkansas; Secretary Ted Snell, CP, CFI Prosthetics-Orthotics, Memphis, Tennessee.

Returning board members are Bruce P. McClellan, CPO, Prosthetic-Orthotic Associates, Tyler, Texas; Keith Senn, COO, Center for Orthotic & Prosthetic Care, Louisville, Kentucky; and Terry Shaw, CP, BOCOP, FAAOP, Shaw’s Prosthetics Plus, Owensboro, Kentucky.

The Board is currently finalizing the agenda for the network’s PrimeFare 2005 seminar, which again includes a popular tech workshop series and pedorthic track in addition to the freshly updated prosthetic, orthotic, and administrative tracks. The agenda will offer a total of more than 60 CEU’s.

The fifth annual PrimeFare Seminar, June 24-25, will be kicked off by the Ronney Snell Memorial Golf Meet, to be held June 23, 2005, at Nashville’s Springhouse Golf Club.
For more information about PrimeCare or the PrimeFare seminar, please visit www.primecareop.com or call PrimeCare at 888-388-5243.