
Jennifer Richards – MA, CPO
Adjunct Faculty
Jennifer Richards, MA, CPO, is a certified prosthetist orthotist with a master’s degree in education. She’s been in the field of O&P for over 20 years. She’s practiced in both private practices and at large institutions in five different states. She’s taught Orthotics students at Northwestern University and DPT students at the University of Maryland and the University of Wisconsin and she currently teaches a Clinical Gait Analysis course in the Kinesiology Department at the University of Michigan. She’s been doing clinical outcomes research for five years and has published her work in both the Journal of Prosthetics and Orthotics and in Prosthetics Orthotics International. She was awarded the Howard R. Thranhardt Lecture Award in March of 2024 for her clinical outcomes research on cranial remolded orthosis treatment.