Bobbie Morris is the founder and owner of the Main Line Hand Center. She is a graduate of Marymount/Fordham University and University of Pennsylvania with a degree in Biology and Occupational Therapy. Bobbie has over 25 years of experience in occupational therapy and specifically, hand rehabilitation. Her career highlights include: development of Work Hardening programs in 1973, a hand therapy program at Bryn Mawr Hospital in 1975 and a hand therapy program at Paoli Memorial  

Hospital in 1989. She has been a Certified Hand Therapist since 1992.

She is an active member in American Society of Hand therapy (ASHT), American Academy of Hand Surgery (AAHS) and the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA). Bobbie has published numerous peer review articles in journals on various treatment and post-operative protocols, as well as guidelines for topics like hand and wrist fractures and wrist and finger tendonitis.  Bobbie was honored to win the 2007 International Vargas Award given by the AAHS.  This award is given annually to a hand therapist who has demonstrated excellence in the profession as a clinician and an advocate of hand therapy and surgery internationally. As part of the Vargas Award, Bobbie was asked to co-lead a series of lectures to surgeons and therapists in Sofia, Bulgaria.  Bobbie has also traveled to India and Vietnam as part of a surgical team that services the catastrophic injuries associated with burns to the faces and hands of children and young woman.

Among her colleagues she is known for her expertise in handling complex injuries to the elbow, wrist and hand, either post-operative, traumatic or overuse.

She enjoys going into the community to speak to groups about prevention and care of  hands to prevent injuries in sports, avocationally and vocationally.     

Teri Speakman, OTR/L, CHT
 

Teri graduated from Elizabethtown College in 1994 with a degree in Occupational Therapy. Her first position was with a national rehabilitation company as a traveler. She traveled to many states to re-start occupational therapy programs, or to assist in rapidly growing programs.  Since then, she has worked primarily in teaching facilities, including the Philadelphia Hand Center, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, and Shriners Hospital for Children.  She earned her Hand Therapy Certification in 2003. 

Teri has had the opportunity to co-author a chapter in one of the most prestigious hand therapy texts. She has lectured on a national level, and has been a guest lecturer at several of Philadelphia’s Occupational Therapy programs.  While at Shriners Hospital, she assisted in the development and implementation of a multi-centered study on Brachial Plexus Palsy. 

Teri has been at Main Line Hand Center since it’s inception in 2002.  She is the senior therapist and educational coordinator for the centers.  Her areas of expertise include the pediatric upper extremity, traumatic upper extremity injuries and wound care.

Sue has over 25 years of experience in hand therapy.  She is a member of the editorial board and an issue editor for the Journal of Hand Therapy.  She is an accomplished author of subjects related to hand therapy and has presented both nationally and internationally.  Sue is involved on a national level with the American Society of Hand therapists.  She is active in research related to hand therapy and has participated in several oversea surgical mission trips. 

Lynne is a licensed Physical Therapist who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.  Lynne has over 25 years of experience with outpatients treating both upper and lower extremity musculo-skeletal injuries. Lynne comes to Main Line Hand Center (MLHC) from Paoli Memorial Hospital, where she  spent most of her time practicing physical therapy.  In 2004, she joined the MLHC and has been a great asset with her expertise in neck and shoulder problems. She is respected by her peers for her holistic and thorough approach to patient care. Lynne utilizes a 

primarily manual approach. Her expertise is with the patient that has multiple diagnoses and difficult pain syndromes associated with upper extremity issues.

Ashleigh jointed the Main Line Hand Center staff in 2008. She attended the University of Delaware for her undergraduate degree, graduating in 2002 with a Bachelor of Science in Exercise and Sports Science. She then pursued her Masters in Occupational Therapy from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Ashleigh began her career working at Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, MD in the International Center for Spinal Cord Injury, treating patients of all ages with neurological conditions and significant upper extremity involvement.  The activity-based

restorative therapy program, headed by Dr. John McDonald, one of the lead physicians who worked with Christopher Reeve during his recovery, focused on using functional electrical stimulation to facilitate neuromuscular regeneration, enabling patients to gain greater use of their upper extremities. After leaving Baltimore in early 2008, Ashleigh joined the therapy team at Duke University Hospital, working primarily in the hospital’s acute care setting with some time spent in Duke’s hand center. Since returning to the northeast, she has been working toward her hand therapy certification and is now certified in Graston Technique, an instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilization technique to assist with managing patient’s scar tissue, edema and soft tissue restrictions.