Carey Glass, CPO, FAAOP, passed away in November. His O&P career spanned 47 years and included being named on patents for O&P devices and serving as the director of clinical services for AlliedOP, with facilities in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Glass helped develop Israel’s first program for students to earn a master’s degree to become physical therapists and certified prosthetist/orthotists, the School of Prosthetics and Orthotics at ADI Negev-Nahalat Eran rehabilitation village, which welcomed its first students this fall. He was to serve as the school’s clinical adviser, intending to stay in Israel for a year to guide the new cohort of students, but fell ill soon after arriving.
“Carey cared deeply about Israel and wanted to help heal the many heroic soldiers and civilians who have been war-wounded,” Itzhak Siev-Ner, MD, director of the Kaylie Rehabilitation Medical Center at ADI Negev-Nahalat Eran, told the Jewish News Syndicate. “As we developed the program together, I got to know him very well. In addition to his extensive experience and exemplary professional skills, he was a kind, caring, and humble person. The only gift better than his professional guidance as a CPO was his friendship. Carey was a visionary and a beautiful human being. His untimely passing is a huge loss for his family, for the family of CPOs worldwide, and for anyone who had the privilege of knowing him. This program is part of his esteemed legacy. We will carry his memory with us always.”
“Carey told me that he came to Israel to improve the education and the prosthetic and orthotic care in Israel,” Yael Dotan-Marom, the program’s academic director, told the news agency. “It was his wish that ADI become a guiding light into the future of this science, with advances that would improve the lives and health of all people around the world. We are excited at the prospect of doing just that.”
