CORE Academy

Will Riddick PT, DPT, GCS is an outpatient physical therapist and the Outpatient Clinical Leader for the multispecialty program at Sheltering Arms Institute (SAI). He is passionate about serving a diverse patient population, with a specialized focus on limb amputations and geriatrics. In addition to his clinical role at SAI, Will serves as co-chair of the Amputation Care Special Interest Group within the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA). He is also an adjunct faculty member in the Program for Physical Therapy at Old Dominion University and a regular guest lecturer at Virginia Commonwealth University. Will is actively involved in continuing education development through the Federal Section of the APTA and has previously published research and case studies on the physical therapy management of limb loss and limb difference. At SAI, Will leads an 8-week collaborative rehabilitation technology course for third-year physical therapy students from Virginia Commonwealth University. The course covers the full spectrum of rehabilitation technologies utilized across multiple disciplines at SAI. His clinical practice incorporates many of these technologies in both evaluative and intervention roles to benefit a wide range of patients.

Ali Holmes, M.S. CCC-SLP, CBIS, BCS-S is the SLP Advisor for Sheltering Arms Institute. As a member of the clinical science team, she supports the SLP department in mentoring and student programs, knowledge translation, clinical practice guideline use and program development. Prior to that position, she was Speech Pathology Manager at Encompass Health. She has provided diagnostic and therapeutic services to inpatient, day and outpatient adult populations, as well as managed a team of speech pathologists. In her career, she has developed outpatient voice and swallowing programs, and other specialty programs in stroke rehabilitation, pulmonary rehabilitation, tracheostomy management and Parkinson’s disease. Ali has presented to groups throughout the region and at the statewide and national conferences for Speech Pathology as well as rehab medicine. Ali graduated with BS and MS degrees from James Madison University and earned her board certification in swallowing and swallowing disorders in 2024.