Chairman
David McGill*
Hicksville, NY
David McGill has been an above-knee amputee since 1996, when he was struck by a car while acting as a Good Samaritan. He is the director of Payer Relations and Legislative Affairs for Ossur. Before that, he was the executive director of a prosthetic facility and represented insurance companies, hospitals and doctors in litigations across the country. He is licensed to practice law in New York. McGill is married and has three children.
Treasurer
Arthur Bassin
Ancramdale , NY
Art Bassin is currently chairman of Columbia Consulting Group and a managing director of Northeast Capital & Advisory Inc. He is a graduate of Harvard College and the Harvard Business School. Following his military service, Bassin spent 25 years in commercial and mortgage banking and was involved for 10 years in managing private equity-owned portfolio companies. He lives with his wife on a horse farm two hours north of New York City.
Secretary
Kathy Spozio*
Shippenville, PA
Kathy Spozio is an ardent disability advocate and a retired administrator of Clarion University of Pennsylvania, where she served as ADA coordinator and complaint resolutionist for the Office of Social Equity. As a result of osteogenic sarcoma, Spozio became a left above-knee amputee in 1995. She is a peer trainer and visitor for the ACA and serves on the Board of Choice Enterprises, a non-profit agency in Clarion County that serves individuals with developmental disabilities. Spozio is a sports enthusiast and member of the Eastern Amputee Golf Association. She also enjoys playing bridge and buying and selling antiques.
Jeffrey Cain*
Denver, CO
Jeffrey Cain, MD, a bilateral below-knee amputee, is Chief of Family Medicine at The Children’s Hospital in Denver, Colorado. Cain is a co-founder and former president of Tar Wars, a national tobacco-free educational project for children. He is a family physician, and in 2000 lead the successful prosthetic insurance reform movement in Colorado and is the new chair of the ACA’s PPAC. In his spare time, Cain is a pilot and enjoys swimming, biking, snow skiing and water skiing. He recently introduced the ski-bike as an adaptive device to ski areas in Colorado.
Pat Chelf
Edina, MN
Pat Chelf is Vice-President of Marketing and Business Development at Otto Bock, and has been in that role since joining the company in 2001. Prior to joining Otto Bock, Chelf worked for the 3M Company in a variety of marketing and management positions in the company’s healthcare business sector. Before joining 3M, Chelf worked extensively in the advertising and communications industries. A graduate of the Universities of Illinois and Minnesota, Chelf is married and has one son. He is a full-time resident of Edina, Minnesota.
Marshall J. Cohen, Esq.*
New York, NY
Marshall Cohen is a partner in the law firm Cohen & Perfetto. Before becoming a lawyer, Cohen received a PhD in American History from Harvard. He has taught at Harvard, MIT, and Columbia Law School. Cohen lives with his wife, Jean Keh, in New York City and Great Barrington, Mass. His passions are opera and tennis. Born with a deformed and enlarged right hip and leg, at 64, Cohen and his orthopedist decided that amputation was the best solution for the deteriorating condition of his right leg. On September 11, 2003, he had the amputation and on October 13, 2003, he received a C-leg for field testing. He is now back on the tennis court and is actively involved in his legal practice. His ambition for ACA is to raise money and to lobby for more equitable insurance coverage for prostheses.
Jeffrey S. Lutz
Lafayette, Louisiana
Jeffrey S. Lutz, CPO, is the regional vice president and market leader of Hanger Prosthetics and Orthotics, Inc., in Lafayette, Louisiana. He joined Hanger as a staff prosthetist in 1986 in Orlando, Florida, and subsequently worked as a manager and area manager in Louisiana and Texas. Previously, Lutz worked for Southern Prosthetic Supply (SPS), Bethesda, Maryland. Lutz holds a bachelor of science degree from Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, with postgraduate work in prosthetics and orthotics at the department of orthopedics at Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois. He completed an orthotic residency at Children’s Hospital, New Orleans, Louisiana, and a prosthetic residency at the Myoelectric Institute of Orlando, Florida.
Richard N. Myers, Jr.
Foothill Ranch, CA
Rick Myers is president and CEO of The Norman Blair Group. He has more than 18 years of executive management experience in the medical device industry, successfully building teams for established and early-stage development companies. Prior to founding Freedom Innovations in 2002, Myers held executive positions at Ossur, Baxter Healthcare (cardiovascular implants), and Steri-Oss (dental implants).
Charles Steele*
New York, NY
Charlie Steele, is a below knee amputee since 1990. Before retiring from IBM, he held numerous management positions during his 28 years of service. He is currently active with A.S.P.I.R.E. in New York City and is a support group leader. Steele is a peer visitor/trainer and a member of the National Consumer Advisory Panel for the Limb Loss Research & Statistics Program (LLRSP). He is also an advocate for literacy and mentor programs and enjoys the arts, reading, writing, traveling and health/fitness.
