Jocelyn is originally from Melbourne, FL however now lives in Tampa, FL and currently works for Moffitt Cancer Center as an outpatient lymphedema therapist. She graduated from the University of Florida with a Bachelor’s in Health Science and New York University with a Master’s in Occupational Therapy. She has worked in a variety of settings including hospital inpatient, outpatient and home health settings. She originally became a lymphedema therapist due to her mother's experience with upper extremity and truncal lymphedema related to breast cancer and has seen firsthand how hard it can be to manage this disease.  She hopes to be an advocate for not only her own patients but for all across the state to improve awareness and find a cure for LE and LD everywhere. 

Denise is a graduate of Cleveland State University's Occupational Therapy program with a Bachelor of Science Cum Laude.  She started her career in pediatrics specializing in sensory integration and developmental delay in Central Florida.  Denise began her practice, Pathways Therapy Services, in 2006 working with adults as a mobile outpatient clinic and contracting with home health agencies and in ILFs/ALFs/SNFs.   She furthered her education and become certified as a Holistic Manual Lymphatic Specialist in 2008, Certified Lymphedema Therapist from Norton School in 2009 and a Vestibular Rehabilitation Specialist sponsored by Emory University in 2012.  She is continually learning and updating her skills and loves to teach others about lymphedema and its treatments and how to help others.  In 2018, Denise began another chapter in her career to bring awareness about lymphedema as an instructor with the Norton School of Lymphatic Therapy, which provides training for healthcare professionals to become a Certified Lymphedema Therapist.  Denise also provides lymphedema in-services to local medical professionals and the community as well as youth concussion screenings for sports.  Her professional associations are a member of AOTA and NBCOT.  Her interests outside of work include her family, reading, running and being outdoors. 

Growing up in Morgantown, WV, I am proud to be a Mountaineer having graduated from West Virginia University in 2012 in mechanical engineering and biology. My long-term career interests have been to serve NASA’s human space exploration ambitions, which led me to Texas A&M University for my doctorate in space physiology, focusing on the lymphatic system in Dr. David Zawieja’s lab. At Texas A&M, I initiated and conducted projects exploring how the lymphatics adapt in circumstances like clinical conditions, radiation exposure, and in weightless environments like that found in space. Now as a post-doctoral fellow at Florida State University, my training focus is on the cardiovascular system (heart and blood vessels). The heart, blood, and lymphatic systems have been predominantly studied independently, but I believe there are important questions to be asked as to how they interact with one another from a basic science perspective, but also importantly, from a clinical/patient perspective with lymphedema patients. I hope to integrate my previous research experience in lymphatics with the cardiovascular system as an independent investigator in the future. I’m excited to have the opportunity to be a member of the LE&RN Florida Chapter committee and hope my research background and experiences can help develop and tie the various chapter objectives to better serve people with lymphatic diseases in Florida and beyond. In my spare time, I’m an avid reader, enjoy being outdoors running, cycling, and hiking, as well as cheering for WVU, Texas A&M, and FSU sports.  

Bridget was born in Lebanon, Pennsylvania but moved to Boca Raton, Florida when she was 13 to pursue her dreams within the sport of tennis. She played division one tennis at Florida Gulf Coast University where she received her Bachelors in Exercise Science in 2020. She currently is pursuing her Doctorate in Physical Therapy at FGCU where she was also voted class president. Bridget was born with primary lymphedema in both arms and hands and went without a proper diagnosis until she was 12 years old. She therefore has a personal connection with the disease and is extremely passionate about advocating for others with lymphedema and lymphatic diseases. She chose physical therapy as a career mainly because of the overwhelmingly positive impact her lymphedema therapist had on her, and hopes to have that same impact on her future patients. Besides being a full time doctorate student, Bridget enjoys working on various research projects (she already has two publications), working at her university library, spending time outside in the Florida sunshine, discovering new coffee shops, and adventuring with her soon to be husband!