Breece Fellowship Nominations Open - Deadline for Application Submission: January 20, 2025

As of December 2, 2024, NAAOP is accepting applications for its annual George and Dena

Breece Health Policy and Advocacy Fellowship. NAAOP is a national nonprofit association

advocating for consumers/patients requiring orthotic and prosthetic care, as well as the providers who serve them. The NAAOP Breece Fellowship is a paid, 9-week summer program based in Washington, D.C. One Fellow will be competitively selected for the 2025 term.

The Fellow will learn about orthotic and prosthetic (O&P) policy and advocacy at the federal

level, and how NAAOP and other O&P organizations function on behalf of the O&P

community—and in the broader context of rehabilitation and disability policy and advocacy.

The Fellowship also includes exposure to O&P clinical and business settings inside and outside

of Washington, DC, and state-based public policy and advocacy, all at NAAOP’s expense.

The selection of the Breece Fellow for 2025 will be through a competitive process using an

application that can be found at www.NAAOP.org. The deadline for all applicants to

electronically submit an application and all related documents is Monday, January 20, 2025, by

12:00 Midnight, Eastern Time. Finalists will be interviewed via videoconference and one Fellow

will be selected by early March. If the finalist selected cannot accept the fellowship for any

reason, the next highest ranked candidate will be offered the position. The fellowship is

expected to run between late May and early August of 2025.

We request all NAAOP members and friends to widely distribute news of the Breece

Fellowship and encourage high quality candidates to apply by the deadline, January 20, 2025.

For more information or to help financially support the Breece Fellowship to help build the next

generation of O&P policy experts and advocates, go to www.NAAOP.org. Thank you.