Carol Ann Sheredos, P.T., M.A., joined the NCMRR in November, 2000, as a program support specialist and policy fellow. She graduated from Ithaca College-Albert Einstein College of Medicine with a bachelor's degree in physical therapy, and received her master's degree in adulthood and aging from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland. Ms. Sheredos practiced physical therapy in New York, and then joined the Veterans Administration Prosthetics Center as a research physical therapist, where she performed gait analyses and monitored clinical application studies, primarily of upper- and lower-extremity prosthetics. Ms. Sheredos is active in the disability community, having served as chairperson of the Maryland Governor's Advisory Council on Individuals with Disabilities for the State of Maryland from 1996 to 2004.