Life
Ehretsman was born September 6,1972,in Chicago in a Lutheran family. [1] [2] Both of her parents were educators. [3] She completed a B.A. in movement and sport science with minors in psychology and English at Purdue University in 1994. [2] [3] [4] In 1997,she earned a M.S. in occupational therapy from Washington University in St. Louis. [3] [4] Christine Novak was her master's project chair. [5] Ehretsman's master's thesis titled,Subjective Recovery of Nerve Graft Donor Site,was published in the Annals of Plastic Surgery in 1999. [2] [6]
Ehretsman is a certified hand therapist specializing in flexor tendon rehabilitation. [3] From 1998 to 1999,she was an occupational therapist at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. [4] She was a hand therapist at the Milliken Hand Rehabilitation Center from 1999 to 2013 and Shriners Hospitals for Children from 2007 to 2013. [4] From 2002 to 2013,Ehretsman was an associate professor of occupational therapy with tenure at Maryville University. [7] She graduated with a Ph.D. in education from Saint Louis University in 2009. [3] [4] Her dissertation was titled,Goal Orientation and Problem-based Learning:A Qualitative Analysis in Occupational Therapy Education. [2] Michael P. Grady was her doctoral advisor. [2] From 2013 to 2017,she was the chair and program director of the department of occupational therapy at Concordia University Wisconsin. [7] From June 2017 to June 2022,she was a professor of health sciences and dean of the school of health sciences at Elon University. [4] [7] On July 1,2022,Ehretsman became the eighteenth president of Wartburg College,succeeding Darrel D. Colson. [7] She is its first female president. [8]
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