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Dr. Amy Winkleman HELPING YOU PUT YOUR BEST FOOT FORWARD! Foundation: noun [foun-dey-shuhn] the natural or prepared ground or base on which some structure rests. In a very real sense, our feet are the foundation of our body. They bear our weight and allow us to move through space. Because they support us, when something goes wrong and our feet become painful, it has a broad, negative effect on our lives. Amy Winkleman, DPM, is part of the ProMedica Coldwater Regional Hospital’s healthcare team, and she brings knowledge, expertise, and commitment to her quest to help relieve her patients’ pain and get them “back on their feet.”. Born and raised in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, Dr. Winkleman attended the University of Akron for her undergraduate work where she received two bachelor’s degrees—one in microbiology and one in cytotechnology. FR. BRAD Following graduation, she worked at Mt.DOYLE Sinai Hhospital in Cleveland Parochial Vicar St. Margaret & St. Thomas where she became supervisor of the cytology(Albany) department just(Springfield) two years Chaplain St. Thomas Aquinas High School out of college. Wanting to move forward in her career and having a deep interest in medicine, Dr. Winkleman shadowed many different specialists and fell in love with podiatry. “It’s an occupation where, yes, you have emergencies and you’re on call, but it’s not 24/7 like an obOB/gynGYN or a cardiologist. You can have your professional life and your personal life. Plus, diabetes runs very big in my family, so I’ve seen the long-term effects on the lower extremities, and I was an athlete in high school and college so I can relate to the foot and ankle injuries. It just fit,” she explains. “I have no regrets about the path I took to get where I am now because I absolutely love what I do!” She also loves that she is much closer to home and family than she was before. “I spent almost six years practicing in a small, oceanfront town in Oregon. It was a beautiful place, but that’s a long way from home! I like not being so far from my family and my friends in Ohio.” Another thing that drew her to apply for the position at ProMedica Coldwater was that, at the time, the hospital did not have their own employed podiatric physician, and Dr. Winkleman liked the idea of being able to develop the practice and get the department up and running.
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