Jessi Vaught

PT, DPT, NCS

Jessi Vaught, PT, DPT, NCS is the Physical Therapy Advisor at Sheltering Arms Institute.  As a member of the clinical science team, she supports the PT department in mentoring and student programs, knowledge translation, clinical practice guideline use, advanced rehab technology implementation, and program development.  She serves as a facility reviewer on the SAI Protocol Review Oversight Committee and as a reviewer/judge for the SAI Annual Research Symposium and Abstract Awards.  Prior to that position, she was a full time clinician in inpatient rehabilitation.  She has a passion for those with neurological diagnoses and earned her NCS in 2012.  Jessi has been a mentor in the SA-VCU PT Neuro Residency Program and currently serves as a manager in the program.  Her current research includes the Traumatic Brain Injury Model System module Care4TBI, in developing therapy standard reporting across 16 participating sites.  She has presented at multiple national and international conferences.  Jessi is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University.