The National Association for the Advancement of Orthotics and Prosthetics (NAAOP) elected new board members: Ben Auzenne, Jeff Cain, MD, Adam Miller, and Steven D. Miller, CPO/L. Their board terms begin January 1, 2023.
Auzenne is the North American vice president, Blatchford US, Miamisburg, Ohio. He has an master’s degree in organizational diagnosis and change management from the Regent University School of Global Leadership and Entrepreneurship and a bachelor of science degree in biology from the College of William and Mary.
Cain is a family physician and clinical professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, a past president of the American Academy of Family Physicians, and a past chair of the board of directors of the Amputee Coalition. After leading the effort to pass the nation’s first parity law in 2001 in Colorado, he was the founding chair of the Amputees Coalition’s Advocacy Committee whose efforts have resulted in the passage of prosthetic access laws in 21 states and the introduction of bipartisan federal prosthetic insurance legislation.
Adam Miller is president of the Orthotics Prosthetics Group of American within VGM & Associates, Waterloo, Iowa. He has a bachelor of arts degree in public relations from the University of Northern Iowa.
Steven Miller is the regional vice president southeast for Hanger, Austin, Texas. He has been with Hanger for 25 years serving in numerous leadership roles. He is a graduate of Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and is nationally recognized as an expert in rotationplasty and has two patents for prosthetic products. He is a Georgia Society Orthotics and Prosthetics board member, a Georgia Composite Medical board member, and a graduate of Georgia Southern University with a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology.
“We are so excited to welcome our new board members who represent various parts of the O&P community and will help us to maximally achieve our advocacy goals,” said Maggie Baumer, JD, NAAOP president.
