Media cover UNE clinical site partner and alum Kurt Jepson's service at Winter Olympics

WCSH6 TV News and the Scarborough Leader interviewed UNE physical therapy alumnus Kurt Jepson, who is serving on the medical staff of the U.S. Olympics Ski Team in Vancouver, his third Winter Olympics. Jepson is a partner at Saco Bay Orthopaedics and Sports Physical Therapy in Saco, Maine, a clinical site for UNE's Department of Physical Therapy. Jepson also works with skiers at the World Cup and provides therapy to team members from the Northeast when they are not at training centers. In the past, Jepson worked with the ski teams at the 2002 Salt Lake City winter games and 2006 Torino winter games.

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