This week's sage, Dr. Sue Michovitz is a physical therapist and Certified Hand Therapist. She spent her career teaching masters and doctoral students, delivering clinical care, and participating in research. Since 2007, she has been an Adj. Associate Professor, Department of Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine, Program in Physical Therapy, Columbia University, New York City. Her previous university appointments were in Philadelphia, where she spent the majority of her career, and included the University of Pennsylvania, Hahnemann University (now Drexel University) and Temple University. She has been a volunteer with Guatemala Healing Hands Foundation (GHHF) for medical and community outreach trips to Guatemala participated in 9 trips to Guatemala from 2007 through 2018.

She has served on the boards of the American Society of Hand Therapists (served as the 2013 President), the American Association of Hand Surgery (Affiliate Board Member) and the Kitchen Theatre, a regional equity actors theatre (Ithaca, NY). From 1995 to 2019 she was on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Hand Therapy, most recently as an Associate Editor.

For her achievements and contributions as an educator, mentor and servant leader, Dr. Michlovitz has been awarded the following:

1. Clinician Teacher of the Year Award, American Association for Hand Surgery, 2003
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3. Nathalie Barr Lectureship, American Society of Hand Therapists (ASHT), 2008
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5. Catherine Worthingham Fellow of the American Physical Therapy Association (FAPTA), 2018
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7. The 2019 ASHT Lifetime Fellowship Award
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9. Emeritus Membership, American Association for Hand Surgery, 2020

She presently lives in Camden, Maine where she is in her final year as an MFA student in Media Arts at Maine Media College. Her work is on photography and book arts.

This week's sage is Luis R. Schecker, MD. Dr. Scheker graduated from the University of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and received his postgraduate training in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in London, England and the University of Glasgow in Scotland.

He served as a Christine M. Kleinert Hand Fellow in 1982 and then as a Research Fellow with the Louisville Institute for Hand and Microsurgery. Dr. Scheker is currently associate clinical professor of surgery (Plastic and Reconstructive) at the University of Louisville and assistant consulting professor of surgery at Duke University.

He is co-editor of the book “The Growing Hand”. Dr. Scheker’s special interests include microvascular reconstruction, congenital anomalies, the carpometacarpal joint, the distal radioulnar joint and the proximal radioulnar joint. He has developed several techniques to preserve and to replace joints. He has created artificial joints to replace the Distal radio ulnar joint, the radio carpal/radio ulnar joint and the proximal radio ulnar joint of the forearm. He also has a basal joint of the thumb.

This week's sage Douglas Hanel M.D. is a professor in the Department of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine at the University of Washington. He graduated from The University of Washington and The Saint Louis University School of Medicine. Following his training in Orthopaedic Surgery at Saint Louis University he completed fellowships in hand surgery with Harold E. Kleinert and microvascular surgery with Robert D. Acland at the University of Louisville. He served as Program Director for Orthopaedic Education for 24 years.