ARP Welcomes a New President: A Conversation with Aileen Ledingham, PT, MS, PhD

I will never forget my first time treating a patient: a boy about 9 years old with cystic fibrosis in the hospital. I knocked on the door, said hello and walked into the room. There he was, standing in the middle of the room, and with his south coast English accent, he immediately asked, ‘Are refrigerators really that big in America?’

Any apprehension I had about being in a foreign land disappeared, and I thought, ‘Kids will be kids; I’ve got this.’

Leslie Mertz, PhD, is a freelance science journalist based in northern Michigan.