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After tearing my ACL in high school, I spent a lot of time around Physical Therapists. They encouraged me to go to PT school. I graduated from the University of North Florida in 12/95 as part of the second graduating class from UNF.
University Medical Center (now UF Health Jax) hired me out of school and I spent 2 years doing trauma rehab and outpatient therapy there.
I worked in outpatient therapy for a few years then tried my hand at medical sales with Physician sales and service. They shipped me up to Boston where I enjoyed the city, but really learned to miss working in Physical Therapy. I moved back to Jax in 99 and opened up a clinic for Heartland Rehab where I was a clinical director and PT for about 5 years. I briefly worked for CORA as well as a clinical director.
That's when it really got fun! I started doing travel physical therapy. This allowed me to travel around the country working at various facilities in need of therapists. I ended up getting set up with the VA and working at multiple VA facilities around the country. During the heart of OEF/OEF, i primarily did amputee training and trauma rehab at the Palo Alto VA in Palo Alto, CA. I moved from there to Hawaii where I realized my surfing dreams getting to surf the north shore of O'ahu while I worked at the Queen's medical center in Honolulu. After living in Waikiki for a couple of years, I went back to California. (I briefly ran into Cheryl Z. while I lived there... though i don't remember how.) Surfing in Santa Cruz and Los Angeles, CA, mountain biking, hiking and dating a lot. I did this for quite a while until I met my wife at a Jimmy Buffett concert in Boston, MA. (that's a story in itself!)
I moved to Boston in 2009, still doing travel therapy and worked at Mass General, then got engaged in 2010. Sue and I moved back to Florida after getting married in St. Augustine in December of 2010. We then moved back to the beaches of Jax later that winter.
We both were hired at Mayo Clinic in 2011. Sue is currently a team lead nurse for the department of neurology as a stroke certified specialist / RN. I was hired to help start a chronic pain rehabilitation program where I still work today.
We were blessed to have a son in 2014. Cody James Brown.
Sue and I now live in Fiddler's Hammock in Ponte Vedra Beach.
I participate in the yearly alligator harvest recreationally in FL.
I still hang out with Mike and Tim, Gretchen Hamby, Joe Vann Occasionally. I also see a couple of MHS grads at work.
