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Emerging Settings in Athletic Training: Neuro-optometry
Name: Stephanie Schwartz, MS, LAT, ATC
Organization: Dr. Fitzgerald & Associates
Location: Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Certified since: 2014
Additional certifications: Dry Needling
Our second athletic trainer in our National Athletic Training Month 2022 series on Emerging Settings in Athletic Training features Stephanie Schwartz MS, LAT, ATC. Stephanie is a 2014 grad from Western Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois. She also received her Master’s degree in Health Promotion from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs in 2017, where she was also a Graduate Assistant. Since 2019, Stephanie has been an athletic trainer at Dr. Fitzgerald & Associates in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
In her role at Dr. Fitzgerald & Associates, Stephanie works closely with Dr. DeAnn Fitzgerald, a neuro-optometrist. Stephanie told us, “There is no other facility in the United States that does what we do and how we do it. As an OD, Dr. Fitzgerald promotes the athletic training profession and understands how wide our scope of practice is.”
